Most of the Weyburn Kin Club members took part in TeleMiracle 48 over the weekend, the 20-hour telethon raising $6,112,717 in 20 hours.

Adrian Prybylski said the Weyburn group made a $4,048 presentation just after 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, with the funds raised from their 'Grillin & Chillin' Raffle.

He said they each did different shifts, around 12 hours each.

"It was a very fulfilling experience," he shared. "From the people who are the 'die hards' that stay all 20 hours, to the 'midnighters', to the last shift, everybody's giving their 100 percent, and the fantastic thing is that there's always something to do. There's always somebody doing something."

"It's just go, go, go from even the week before TeleMiracle, there's lots going on. You've got people picking up cast from the airport to the hotels, people in the background dealing with the corporate sponsors and they kind of shuttle them around. There's a whole department dedicated to education, so if anybody is not a part of TeleMiracle or the Kinsmen, they can show up and like take a tour and see the whole behind the scenes and everything."

Prybylski said risers were put in place for the audience members who want to stick around to watch the show. 

"I think we can have up to about 180 people, and there were a few times it was pretty full in there, and the crowd gets going, the cast can like talk to the audience," he shared. "It's 20 hours of fun."

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"The best part about show business is that if it's a quiet show, then that's perfect. Nothing messed up. Nothing went wrong. We didn't have to cut to commercial really quickly or whatever else," he noted. "There's bumps and blips here and there, but the show goes on. Everybody knows how to fix and correct it, and it really does not jam up the system." 

He shared that for all you see on the stage, there is 80 percent more happening behind the scenes.

"There's all the runners, there's the people work in treasury, like those people don't leave that room and they just count all the donations that come in, and it's wonderful," he explained. "The best part is is we get to like the last hour or two. There are so many donations coming in that we set up a chain, so people stand in the line, and right from the stage, they're getting their donations, handed hand-by-hand all the way up to treasury to be counted. So it's an impressive sight to see, just to see the wall of people handing the paper slips up and that's really awesome." 

Prybylski added that the Weyburn Kin Club usually has one main fundraiser for TeleMiracle throughout the year, with other fundraisers held to give back to the community.

While there was the donation, and help behind the scenes at the telethon, from the Weyburn Kin Club, it wasn't the only sizable donation coming from the Weyburn area. 

Alvin Eikemo, born in Radville and raised in Gladmar, requested a donation of $500,000 to Kinsmen TeleMiracle. In a post on social media acknowledging the donation, it was said Alvin was a well-respected, unassuming, hardworking, highly-principled man with feet planted firmly in the soil of Saskatchewan. 

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