by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 5, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In March 2026 a woman in the Rochester, Minnesota area gave a stranger a van so he could get to work. His name is Jon Hielscher. He was 20 and living in Eyota, about twenty minutes outside the city. He had just landed a job in Rochester and had no way to get there. At...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Aug 13, 2026 | Stories, Needs
Dave Obbink farms near Cedar Grove, in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. In October 2021 he got Covid and went to the hospital for four days, with most of his crops still standing in the fields. His neighbors harvested his crops while he was gone. Word got around fast....
by Ernie St. Gelais | Aug 12, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In September 2020, sixty neighbors drove onto a farm outside Crosby, North Dakota, bringing eleven combines with them. They came because Lane Unhjem, who was 57, could not bring in his own harvest. Earlier that month one of Unhjem’s combines caught fire. He had...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Aug 8, 2026 | Stories, Jobs
In July 2026, Local 3 News in Chattanooga, Tennessee reported on a man standing on a corner off Old Lee Highway with a sign asking for a job. His name is Steven Vest, and his wife helped him make the sign. He was not asking for money. He was asking a business to take...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Aug 7, 2026 | Stories, Events
Elizabeth and Jake Landuyt were married on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in a ceremony CBS News reported on in June 2021. They left their own wedding reception after a fire, about a minute into her father’s speech. The cottage next to the wedding venue had caught...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Aug 2, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In 2022, Gwendolyn Stulgis gave away her wedding dress to a stranger. She was not trying to start anything. She just did not think the dress should spend the rest of its life in a closet collecting dust. She had found it at the end of a long day of shopping. Price and...
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