Lend A Helping Can

Lend A Helping Can

Lend a Helping Can raises money for 12 New England charitable agencies to feed the Needy and Homeless.

 

NightSide with Dan Rea - Rundown for December 22, 2025

NightSide News Update. We begin the program with four interesting guests on topics we think you should know more about! Hear from a doctor about ways to reduce your risk of getting Parkinson’s and meet Adrian Oomer, a 10-year-old philanthropist on The Cape!

Policy Canceled. According to a recent Boston Globe article, Boston Public Schools had been warned as early as 2021 by their commercial transportation insurer to improve bus driver training and safety measures. In March of 2025, National Interstate decided against renewing the district’s coverage due to an increasing number of accidents. Less than two months later, the unthinkable happened…5-year-old Lens Joseph was struck and killed by a BPS school bus. Dan shares more tonight.

1 in 10. Childhood sex abuse is more common than any childhood illness or injury that parents are routinely educated about. One in ten children experience it before the age of 18 and many families are not equipped to talk about it. Dr. Bronwen Carroll, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Boston Medical Center who has been treating victims of sexual abuse in the pediatric ER for decades, joins Dan tonight.

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