BARRE, Vt. -
A community is rallying to keep its favorite radio DJ on the air. But after the company went bankrupt, and was bought by another station, he's out of a job at the end of this month.
It's Devon Foxx's real life experience as a combat veteran that's earned him a decent amount of listeners... now, a petition is circling in his favor.
"Here's 'Walk This Way' and it's on Frank," DJ Devon Foxx said Friday afternoon.
Almost one hundred people want him to remain the voice of the Frank FM morning show.
"It humbles me," he said.
It was two avid listeners who started the petition, and are encouraging the radio station's new owners, Great Eastern Radio to keep him on the payroll.
"He's won many awards, he's done his job," Ronald Tallman said, who's a Veteran Advocate.
But at midnight on November 30th, DJ Devon and three others won't be Nassau Broadcasting employees anymore.
"They made the decision to downsize the staff slightly," Program Director TJ Michaels said.
Foxx spent time in Iraq. "Part of engaging our listeners is sharing our own lives with them," he said. And because of that, his supporters want him to continue talking about his experience and other real issues over the airwaves.
"Once you sign your name on that line, the government should take care of you, but locally the people should take care of you if you're a willing and able person who wants to work," Tallman said.
"I've made Great Eastern Radio aware of the fact that hiring me on as a disabled combat veteran they get up to a 25-hundred dollar tax credit," Foxx said.
If the signatures don't make a difference for the local hero, he and the three others will receive a severance package.
Devon Foxx believes his position was eliminated because he's a veteran, so he's looking into a discrimination lawsuit.
The national unemployment rate is just under eight percent, but the unemployment rate for veteran's is at more than 12-percent.
