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Local organizations help kids with or recovering from cancer make Mother’s Day gifts
On Saturday, May 7th 2022, Brighter Tomorrows teamed up with the Master Gardeners of Olmsted County to host a planting event for our families. Children were invited to plant flowers for their mothers, make a craft and listen to a story while learning about plants. The...
‘It’s a new kind of family’
When Christian was diagnosed in the summer of 2018, the Bos family found a new family in Brighter Tomorrows. They spoke about this to the Post Bulletin back in 2019 and shared their story with the participants of our annual Go for the Gold 5k fundraiser. You can read...
Kids with Courage – KTTC
In September of 2020, our local news partner KTTC started a new series called "Kids with Courage" and featured one of Brighter Tomorrows' warriors, Ryan Bennett, and his family. Caitlyn Alexander met Ryan and his family over video call in order to maintain social...
Why We Paint the Town Gold.
We scraped our green-felted church chairs across the linoleum into our regular circle. The air is heavy, yet the murmuring, light conversations continue until someone softly starts the meeting. One look around at the faces tell a million stories. Some are veterans,...
ABC 6 KAAL TV reports on 2020 Go For the Gold going virtual
In 2020, due to the pandemic, our Go For the Gold walk/run went virtual. As ABC 6, KAAL's Samantha Boring reports here, the mission remains the same.
How a tiny warrior and a giant snow inspired these boys to help Brighter Tomorrows
The winter of 2019 will go down as the snowiest on record in Southeast Minnesota. By March most of us were tired of making weather history, but that wasn’t the case for two industrious nine year olds. Best buds Benny Timpane and Landon Eckhoff were determined to turn...
What a gift to find out someone else understands, someones cares, someone is there to listen, and to find you have a whole new family!