WHOW The Big 1520 celebrated its 75th Anniversary with a gala banquet Saturday night at the Clinton Country Club, raising over 3-thousand dollars for 3 local non-profit organizations.

The station paid for the entire night so that the 26-hundred dollars in ticket sales could be split between the Neighborhood Care Center's No Fee Grocery Shopping and the Clinton High School Student Activity Fund.  Another 450-dollars was raised in a raffle, with that money going to the Central Illinois C-E-O program.

Rising country music star Gracia Harrison from Nashville performed during social hour and dinner.

Following the serving of a catered dinner and pieces of the WHOW 75th Anniversary cake, baked at Kirby Foods in Clinton, a one-hour video with the history of WHOW was shown.  That video, which includes audio from Uncle Johnny Barton, Red Cravens, the Sangamon Valley Boys, Denny Sarver, Bill Ward, Ozzie Pearl, Larry Duling, and Wayne R. Miller, can be seen on the station's youtube channel, WHOWTV, by clicking HERE.

Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Marian Brisard told Regional Radio News that she's grateful for how WHOW promotes the Clinton community.

WHOW president and general manager Randal J. Miller thanks all those who attended Saturday night's event to honor the station's legacy of service to Clinton, DeWitt County, and Central Illinois.