Blog Category: Minnesota State Fair
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Transformation
Wendy Sullivan loved butterflies. She raised them each summer, keeping a milkweed garden from which to pluck and feed her caterpillars. When she would find the caterpillar eggs she would gently place them in a cage until they hatched and then nourish them each day with fresh milkweed leaves. After the caterpillars emerged from their [...]
A sense of urgency
When we began bringing you our state fair experience virtually this year, we promised you 12 stories in 12 days. For this final story, I’m not going to focus on one in particular. Instead, I’d like to talk about our community of stories. More people than each of us realizes has a connection to organ and tissue donation. [...]
Jesse's Decision
Cliff and Sandy Romberg visit the Minnesota State Fair for one very special reason – to tell people about their son, Jesse. This is their third year volunteering at our booth at the Fair, registering people as organ and tissue donors. Their daughter, Alyssa, is joining them this year too. “We like to promote donation [...]
Vern and Kathleen
Vern Jackson received a lung transplant in June of 2007. Two months after his transplant he was at the Minnesota State Fair, sharing his story. He and his wife, Kathleen Hallinan, continue to volunteer at the Fair each year, often taking several shifts at our booth to talk with fairgoers. “It’s really fun interacting with [...]
The Call
Kevin Praska is a heart-lung post-transplant coordinator at Mayo Clinic. His care begins just after a patient receives their heart or lung transplant and continues for the entirety of their journey. In short, he and his colleagues help ensure that transplant recipients continue to stay healthy. Part of Kevin’s job involves being on-call to notify [...]
Kevin's Gift
This fall, Kevin Jenkins will be celebrating 10 years of life thanks to the generosity of a living donor who gave him a kidney. This is a video of Kevin from April, in which he talks about what this gift has meant to him. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4XyHrG5oQc] Kevin is sharing his story with fairgoers this evening. He’s [...]
"Sloppy Grandmas"
Last month, Holly Kluver’s family gathered at the site where her mom was fatally injured in a bike accident. It was the one-year anniversary of Corrine Stein’s death and her gifts of life through organ and tissue donation. The family released balloons in her memory and, as Holly shares, “We told the kids we were [...]
Enjoy the Ride
Today would be Bruce Sellner’s 59th birthday. Fair-goers will be honoring his legacy today as they enjoy some of the Fair’s rides with their families. You see, Bruce invented many of the amusement park rides we all enjoy – things like the Berry-Go-Round, Spin the Apple and Monkey Mayhem, to name a few. And the [...]
3,236 Days
What would you do with 3,236 days? That’s nearly nine years, and in Nick Jolly’s case it was the number of days he had to celebrate life after his lung transplant in 1996. Nick’s wife Kathy continues his legacy. Today she is working at our booth at the State Fair, along with her daughter Diane, her daughter’s [...]
Riding a bike
Riding a bicylce is so commonplace that we often compare it to learning a new skill or as reassurance if we are afraid we’ll forget how to do something. ”Don’t worry,” we’re told. ”It’s just like riding a bike.” Most of us learn to ride a bike so early in life that we don’t even remember. We probably don’t [...]
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