Former local radio personality releases CD
To the editor;
I worked in Presque Isle at WEGP radio from 1962-’63 where I hosted the evening show from 6 to midnight weekdays while serving in the U.S. Air Force at the former Loring Air Force Base. I was also editor of the base newspaper.
Known on the air by my middle name, 
“Ben’ Petersen, I was good buddies with the station owner Edward G. Perrier (W-E-G-P), and would often implore Ed to take me on his annual winter snowbird migration to Miami. Alas, no luck!
Instead, I would watch over aircraft in January. But Ed would send me a box of grapefruit.
Since my days in Presque Isle, I have lived and worked in Augusta, Ga., and Salt Lake City, where I worked at KALL sports radio. While working in Georgia, I recorded the comedy album, “Trust Me,” a satirical spoof of the Jimmy Carter White House. I also performed a sold-out one-man-show “How It Feels to be 40” at the Performing Arts Center at Augusta College. My career includes four years in the Air Force (Taiwan and Maine) and two years in the Peace Corps (Nigeria).
During my stint in Salt Lake, I wrote and performed a one-man show as “Tom Paine” for KUED-TV which received a Rocky Mountain PBS Emmy.
Today I live in Northern Virginia with my wife of 40 years, Betty.
I have just released my most recent work “12 Days A-Calling — Christmas Comedy” through HBP Records and available on amazon.com. It includes the spontaneous results of my attempt to order all of the items in the song, “The 12 Days of Christmas’ while working at KALL radio in Salt Lake City. Fortunately the people in Utah are so polite they will put up with an odd person on the telephone rather than hang up. The results are humorous.
I hope you enjoy.
Hans B. Petersen Jr.
Centreville, Va.
