Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Prayer for Punkin

http://blogs.mcall.com/groller/ FROM KEITH GROLLER I put something at the end of my Finetuning column in today's paper about this, but I wanted to make sure Groller's Corner readers are aware as well. Ron "Punkin" Miller, a beloved figure in the local sports community, is very ill. He is being transferred today from the Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest and into hospice care at Lehigh Valley Hospital's 17th Street facility in Allentown. Miller is well known as a public address announcer at high school football and basketball games, and the Allentown Fair. He's also a longtime Blue Mountain League baseball manager and he did a weekly sports-talk radio show with me for six years in the late 90s and early 2000s on a variety of stations. But perhaps he is best known as the "Dumb Bunny" playing off John Donmoyer, Sr., in the ABE Car Care commercials that have been running locally for more than two decades. He is, as someone said to me last night at the Easton-Liberty boys basketball game, "a Lehigh Valley icon." Keep him in your thoughts and prayers. .

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