Quite a nice turnout Thursday afternoon at King Pin Bowl & Ale House in West Bend as neighbors gathered to celebrate Bob Bonenfant’s retirement from WBKV. Bonenfant has been on the air 29 years.
Dedicated listeners, along with current and former employees laughed and remembered the good times when the station was about family and community.
“Thank you for sharing your husband,” said one woman to Bob’s wife Gail.
“Good luck being home with him the whole day,” said another long-time listener Larry Hartman.
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Folks got along like a family reunion. Sightings included Rich ‘The Barber’ Thiemer and his wife Mary, former news and sports guy Bob Dohr, former sales gals Sue Tupper, Chris Schommer, and Jill Lemke.
Peggy Fischer from Shooting Star Travel paid a visit along with Bill Mitchell from the FM and morning show co-host Jesse Averill was there with his father.
Bob and Gail brought their West-Bend famous family including daughter Katrina and her husband Jason and the three grandkids that have a plan to wear Bob out in retirement. ,
There were conversations about the famous Shopping Show, Bob’s DJing at ‘Two G’s,’ and how people are going to miss the local birthday roll call.
Bob’s last day on the air will be this morning at AM 1470 WBKV.