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People doing good

People doing good · Sports

Woman delays surgery so she can watch the Stanley Cup playoffs

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 24, 2019, 1:41 PM May 24, 2019
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Shannon McCarthy’s family and friends aren’t too proud to beg.
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People doing good

Mobile van will offer showers to homeless in Sauk Rapids

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2019, 8:25 AM May 20, 2019
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Some time ago, someone asked Nancy Dyson and Jason Jaques, of Sauk Rapids, where they could go to get a shower in the area. They had nothing to offer. So they solved the problem themselves. Read more →

Education · People doing good

Commencement speaker tells grads to ‘pay it forward.’ Then he pays off their student loans

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 19, 2019, 4:18 PM May 19, 2019
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For the most part, commencement speakers are a pretty forgettable lot. They might be good for a few laughs but within a few months, they become a trivia question.

Suffice it to say, though, the Morehouse College seniors are not going to forget their commencement speaker. Read more →

Education · People doing good

When cop adopted a girl, ‘it was meant to be’

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 13, 2019, 7:45 AM May 13, 2019
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Why do some children survive the very worst life can throw at them and some don’t? Quite often, it’s one person who gives a damn. Read more →

Health · People doing good

NewsCut flashback: 13 reasons why not

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 30, 2019, 10:18 AM Apr 30, 2019
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According to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, teenage suicide spiked 28.9% after the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” premiered in 2017. That’s 195 dead kids more than would have been expected. Read more →

Health · People doing good

A sick boy, a housekeeper, and the cure for what ails you

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 26, 2019, 10:57 AM Apr 26, 2019
3

We apologize profusely for failing to notice Boyd’s Huppert’s story this week about the housekeeper at the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Children’s Hospital and the 4-year-old boy he befriended Read more →

Health · People doing good

Goodness of people in Wisconsin overburdens transplant system

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 11, 2019, 8:32 AM Apr 11, 2019
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When the Waukesha family’s story was told, people stepped up. So many people offered to be the donor, it crashed an overburdened screening process to select one. Read more →

Education · People doing good · Sports

La Crosse basketball team celebrates championship with a 100-year-old fan

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2019, 10:29 AM Apr 5, 2019
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The kids of the Aquinas girls basketball team on Thursday showed us why they’re two-time state champions. Read more →

Health · People doing good

It took a nurse to find a mom for an addicted baby

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2019, 7:05 AM Apr 5, 2019
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Gisele was born premature in 2016; she weighed only 2 pounds. That’s what happens when your mother uses heroin, cocaine and methadone during pregnancy. Read more →

Education · People doing good

Farmington robotics kids build a wheelchair

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2019, 7:02 AM Apr 1, 2019

Sometimes you get up in the morning and think there’s no hope in the world.

Today is not one of those days. Read more →

People doing good

They also serve who sit and knit

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2019, 11:15 AM Mar 29, 2019
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Since 2001, Alice Jahnke has made 55 afghans, 831 caps and 405 bonnets for people who are undergoing radiation at Alomere Health in Alexandria, Minn. Read more →

People doing good · Sports

He wanted to see his daughter in the Sweet 16, but couldn’t go

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2019, 9:50 AM Mar 29, 2019
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Todd Palmer, an athletic director at Brown High School in Sturgis, S.D., was pretty excited that his daughter would be playing in the NCAA Sweet 16 basketball tournament for the South Dakota Jackrabbits in Portland, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader says. Just one problem: he couldn’t go. Read more →

People doing good · Weather

No school? No problem for the snowbound in Amery

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 13, 2019, 7:58 AM Feb 13, 2019
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The kids in Amery, Wis., had a snow day yesterday but there was no time off for them, not when the coaches of their hockey team suggested they put the time to good use. Read more →

People doing good

A woman’s car stalled on the tracks in Hastings, and a train was coming

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 13, 2019, 7:06 AM Feb 13, 2019
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All over the Twin Cities in the last few days, strangers have been pushing people out of snowbanks and snowdrifts and getting no attention for it. So perhaps if the Dakota County sheriff can find three heroes, they can represent all of you who got no recognition for being the better part of us. Read more →

People doing good

Homeless man who suffered frostbite is reunited with dog he wouldn’t give up

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 6, 2019, 7:15 AM Feb 6, 2019
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There’s good news and bad news in the story of Jay Mitchell, the homeless man who wouldn’t give up his dog in the brutal cold of a Minnesota winter and paid the price with severe frostbite.
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