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By Mackenzie Davis News 8000 Article Link WINONA, Minn. (WKBT) - A team of local organizations is working on putting an end to the issue of nearly 5,500 Winona residents going to bed hungry. The Winona Community HUB is the result of a collaboration between Winona Health, Winona County Human Services, Winona Volunteer Services, Project FINE, Winona Area Public Schools, Live Well Winona, ... read more

Written by: Tesla Mitchell, Winona Daily News Downtown Winona was filled with laughing kids, inflatable slides, honking horns, and lots of trucks to touch, as hundreds gathered in the streets for Touch a Truck and Play Streets on Saturday. "The weather is perfect for it," Winona resident Katie Freitag said with a smile behind her aviator glasses as her 3-year old daughter Mae Belle ... read more

Written by Samantha Stetzer, Winona Daily News, January 1, 2018 Homework and a game of Uno have become a common part of Bob Deter’s Tuesday afternoons. It’s not the big, travel-filled afternoons the financial executive for a global company has always done, but it’s certainly his way of paying the good fortune life has awarded him back, Deter said. So when he retired six years ago and ... read more

Written by: Samantha Stetzer Winona Daily News Dec 3, 2017 For the first time, Robert Bergsrud stood in the doorway of Hy-Vee on Tuesday from the morning into the afternoon, methodically clanking a bell, his cane propped up in a cart. After an interruption from a reporter, a little girl asked him where the “dinging” was, to which Bergsrud replied with a swift ring of his bell, much to the ... read more

Article written by Samantha Stetzer, Winona Daily News, November 6, 2017 Bob Leaf leaves his house at 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday and treks to Hy-Vee and Midtown Foods to bring a bread delivery to Winona Volunteer Services, ensuring those who use the volunteer and charity organization’s services have bread and bakery items. He also mows the organization’s lawn and picks weeds ... read more

Samantha Stetzer, Winona Daily News It was a passion for education that led Susan Derks to tutoring elementary students more than 15 years ago, but it was an interest to do something different with that passion that led her to volunteering with the Adult Literacy Program. And she’s now the program’s most experienced volunteer. Run through the community education department ... read more

Samantha Stetzer Winona Daily News, August 7, 2017 Volunteering isn’t just a passion for Beth Forkner Moe — it’s a lifestyle she was destined to have. Moe said she grew up in a home with a stay-at-home mother, who was always keeping busy by lending a helping hand and volunteering for the community. “I just saw volunteering as something you do,” Moe said. As the ... read more

Written by: Samantha Stetzer,  Daily News July 3, 2017 Diane Amundson might as well be synonymous with volunteer. The self-employed leadership and strategic team builder has been volunteering so much in her last 26 years of living in the Winona area, she said there are plenty of times she is asked to lend the community a hand. As the July Volunteer of the Month, it would be ... read more

By: Samantha Stetzer - June 5, 2017  Daily News Chris Dahlke and Samantha TerBeest were noticing the same digital phenomenon in Winona. As the adult services librarian at the Winona Public Library, TerBeest said the library is a hub of digital resources for those who need it, but some do not understand what is all available to them. “At least every day, we get somebody who ... read more