wsen-John Carucci

Here's a little about me! I enjoy collecting Beatles and M*A*S*H memorabilia. I enjoy camping, watching SU sports, NFL and MLB games. My favorite teams are the Bills and the Yankees. My favorite food is pasta with lots of sauce and meatballs. I love Cappuccino and iced coffee and Italian cookies. My favorite movie is The Godfather, my favorite classic TV show is M*A*S*H and current favorite is The Soprano's.

Of course, I enjoy tossing the football and playing basketball with my kids.

When I'm not in the studio I enjoy connecting with our listeners at on location broadcasts and at weddings and parties that I frequently do throughout the year.

John Carucci

Monday - Friday 7PM - 12AM
March 2008

Once again I participated as member of "Operation Southern Comfort" a group of Central New York adults and high school student volunteers to help rebuild homes on the Gulf Coast damaged by Hurricane Katrina. This trip was much different from the one I made last year to Gulf Port Mississippi, on that trip we were mostly dealing with people who's lives were in rough shape even before Katrina hit. On this trip we traveled to St. Bernard's Parish, Louisiana (a Parish is like a Township here). The people of the homes we worked on this trip were average Americans just like you and me and after two and a half years still are not in there homes. I felt a chill down my spine when I drove down local streets that still have traffic lights darkened that will not be working anytime soon since the offices , buildings and stores that were standing around them no longer exist. I drove down with my son Tyler and four of his high school friends and we stayed with over 50 other volunteers in a building that was a small Methodist Church before Katrina in the area of Arobi (we referred to it as the Arobi Hilton). It was a room with dozens triple Decker beds and only four showers ands two bathrooms. The local Knights of Columbus let us use their facility for our meals and meetings. Dave Rice from Lowville was our master chef and I find my gaining a few pounds after a week of his cooking. Dave can cook a mean Cat Fish dinner. I hit the ground running and on the first day we completed three jobs which included preparing a home for electrical wiring and landscaping a local children's playground that was vandalized and burned on New Year's Eve. This playground was built solely by donations and a local organization has vowed to repair it. We were treated to a special presentation at Chalmette High school with beautiful inspirational songs sung by the school choir that included a very touching story of how their lives have been turned upside down since Katrina and how much our being there to help get them back into their homes means to them. All the Syracuse area students stayed at the school and shadowed the Chalmette students for a day. The St. Bernard Parish Historian Bill Haylin took us on a bus tour of St.Bernard's Parish to see first hand the Katrina damage and the hundreds of homes marked for demolition. Bill also took us to see the Levees along the Mississippi and a drive through the lower 9th ward with a special lunch stop and tour of the French Quarter in New Orleans. I'm very proud of my son and all the young volunteers that sacrificed their winter break to work on homes to help these people like you and I to get back to their "comfort zone" that we all sometimes take for granted. What touched me most was being told by a young woman whose home we worked on that "you all are angels from heaven". I hope to return soon to continue our work because these people are no different from you and I. Until next time keep rocking!

-John

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