At 8 years old, I was fascinated by the magical worlds created by Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss. “The Cat in the Hat,” “The Lorax,” “Horton Hears a Who” — these were worlds where it was okay to have fun with language, make up […]
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The threat of ice in the forecast didn’t stop more than 400 guests from packing the house at the sold out Hope Is Where the Heart Is gala at the Chase Park Plaza on Feb. 10. The highlight of the evening was hearing the courageous
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Frequent flier and future Wings of Hope pilot, Mason, stopped by our hangar after a recent appointment at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Mason, 8, whose case of clubfeet is more resistant to treatment than most, is on his way to a complete recovery by age
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Our April 2nd Airplane Raffle was one for the books. We sold all 4,000 tickets in 3 hours, 24 minutes—and raised a whopping $168,925. We will pull the winning tickets on May 18 at 1 p.m. Central Time. Stay tuned … and good luck to
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We were recently honored to receive a very special visitor. Sandy Turner’s family once owned our Cessna 206KY. The plane has toured the world saving lives. It is now in St. Louis, and our hangar crew is all-hands-on-deck getting it ready to fly in the
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On Saturday, April 28, our Young Ambassadors and their volunteer crew set up shop outside the Wings of Hope hangar for their third annual plane wash. The allday event was lots of good, clean fun—and raised $3,955, almost double what the event brought in last
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Did you know that Wings of Hope receives about 20 donated planes a year? NBC TV station TMJ-4 covered a recent donation from Alan Kuro, a donor in the Milwaukee area. Alan earned his pilot’s license in the 1970s, but had to give up flying
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The Berges Family Foundation awarded Wings of Hope a $50,000 grant to support our U.S.-based medical air transport program. This is the first grant Wings of Hope has received from the foundation. “We are very grateful to the Berges Family Foundation for supporting our efforts
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Wings of Hope volunteer pilot, Ken Pratt, generously covered a gap in service in Belize during the two months between previous pilot TJ Stewart leaving and new pilot Michael Valley taking over the post. During the 60 days he was there, Ken wrote a daily
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On January 28, we gave a true Wings of Hope sendoff to a very special Cessna 182. The plane was used in a hands-on STEM program for students in Texas. Now, it is flying medical air transport missions for Adventist World Aviation in Guyana. Surrounded
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