Bill Harris, a reporter at WTVG, interviews a mascot during the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon to benefit Children’s Services at the Medical College of Ohio Hospital, later renamed The University of Toledo Medical Center. The televised fundraiser debuted in 1983 as part of the national Children’s Miracle Network Telethon, and was hosted by Harris, Jack Mitchell, left, from Toledo radio station K-100 (WKKO-FM), among many others in local media.