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...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Aug 2, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In the summer of 2007 our middle son was a new cadet at West Point, and my wife Marie and I were following an online forum where senior parents answered the questions the freshman parents had. A-Day was coming up, the ceremony that closes out Cadet Basic Training and...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 10, 2025 | Stories, Charity
We’ve all heard or read recently about Gordon Gray, the Hollywood producer, who recently received the earth shattering news that his daughters have Batten Disease. As a father of three healthy adult sons, my heart breaks for Gordon and his family, but his family...
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