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Bonner Tribute Concert Cancelled

Plans to honor Ohio Players frontman Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner with a tribute concert are being scrapped.Organizers have canceled next month's planned event in Dayton, saying they will respect the Bonner family's wishes to not have a public memorial. Bonner died last month of cancer at the age of 69. A memorial service is scheduled for this Saturday in Cincinnati.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.