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Real stories about what is possible when you #SayYES.

Logan’s Fun Fest: Celebrating the Life of a Playful Toddler

By Kelly Vance / May 17, 2017

Sometimes a family gets the call and sometimes, they’re right there when it happens. Margo Gill was there when her son Logan suffered a fatal accident just before his third birthday. “I was doing CPR on him before EMS showed up and I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to get a miracle,” she said.…

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Over the Rainbow: Motherhood and the Gift of Life

By Kelly Vance / May 11, 2017

Gwen Mutter knows that being a mother is one of life’s greatest gifts. Her daughter, Stephanie Green, found that out as well after adopting a newborn baby girl in early 2012. What both of them understood was that to give your child everything is as powerful a desire as the fear you have of outliving…

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Driven: A NASCAR Driver Pays it Forward

By Kelly Vance / April 19, 2017

Joey Gase may be a rising star in NASCAR but he’s also a 24-year-old who, not too long ago, had to make the hardest decision he may ever face. Joey was 18 when his mother, Mary Jo, suffered a brain aneurysm at the age of 44 which tragically took her life. Since his parents were divorced, it…

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Chesterfield Family to Honor Son’s Legacy, Award Service Scholarships

By Kelly Vance / April 17, 2017

It started off as a happy day – Peter and Yvonne Patnaude’s daughter, Payge, was celebrating her birthday and her older brother, Tyler, was preparing to graduate from Cosby High School. Then with one knock on the door, everything changed. A parent’s worst nightmare- Tyler was dead. The car he’d been riding in hit a…

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Superhero: How the Gift of Life Saved a Family Again and Again

By Kelly Vance / April 9, 2017

They say that the things you go through make you stronger. For David Edmondson, Meghan Hodgins, and their daughter, Kyndall, this strength would double, then triple, and then prove to be a seemingly indestructible force against whatever life could throw at them. And life has thrown a lot their way. Kyndall, now 18 years old,…

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