On Saturday my son organized an 8 band two show concert to benefit Children's Hospital of Detroit Music Therapy Department. It was his Eagle Scout Project. We distributed 18000 fliers, sent press releases to EVERY television and radio station in the Detroit Metro area and he had lots of internet coverage. He got mentioned on public radio last saturday and was in a local paper on Mother's Day. All of the local organizations (lions, eagles, KC, elks etc) got press releases.

Only about 30 people showed up for the two shows. We rented an 800 seat auditorium for this! My son put his heart and soul into this project. Only one person from Children's hospital even came. She stayed 10 minutes. So now we are about $2000 in the hole.

I was suprised that no local news station picked it up. I bet if he wore a dirogitory tee shirt to school or accidentally left his box cutter from work in his car when he went to school the news would be all over him! It's about time kids get some press time for the good things they do!