Done in Grand Rapids

After over 4 decades, WZZM Chief Meteorologist George Lessens has signed off from the station.

He joined the station in November of 1980.

Leesens still remember his first day on air at tyhe station, which was a complete surprise.  

“It was on Thanksgiving. It was a surprise. I was living with my parents at the time out in Lowell because I didn’t have an apartment yet and the phone rings at 3 o’clock in the morning on Thanksgiving Day,” George remembers.  

“My mom answers the phone, comes in and wakes me up and says, ‘You need to go into work, someone called in sick,’ and I went, ‘Um, Ok.’ Did that, came home to Thanksgiving dinner. Later on, my mom says you’re going to have to find your own apartment because I am not answering the phone at 3 in the morning.”

He stuck around the station for 45 years.