Capturing a glimmer of hope. It has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic upended all of our lives. The unanticipated lifestyle changes took a...
Giving Back
Community Driven, Community Focused
ReGrow White Bear Lake supports downtown businesses. When downtown White Bear Lake faced the brunt of the pandemic in early spring, ReGrow White...
White Bear Area Food Shelf Continues Mission Through COVID-19 Pandemic
The White Bear Area Food Shelf provides for families in need. Providing food and support since 1977, the White Bear Area Food Shelf (WBAFS) strives...
How White Bear Lake is Coping with the Coronavirus Crisis
These are only a few of the many heartfelt ways you showed just how remarkably thoughtful and kind the people of our area truly are — you are all...
Fashion Nonprofit 3seams Helps Women Find a Better Future
3seams offers women in Cambodia and Nepal a chance at a different future. Inga Swope knew she wanted to do something to help women and children...
White Bear Lake Rotary Club Works Locally to Solve Global Issues
Rotary Club of White Bear Lake is a local organization with international reach. The Rotary Club of White Bear Lake is entering its 39th year of...
Transportation Nonprofit Wants to Get Everyone Into the Community
Newtrax provides daily transportation for more than 600 people. Transportation can be a barrier to participating in the life of a community, and...
Dr. Ann Frisch Travels the World Helping Others Reduce Conflict
For many, retirement means slowing down the pace of life, but for Dr. Ann Frisch, it meant starting a new career as an international peacekeeper,...
Local Couple Establishes Foundation to Fight Lyme Disease
Lisa Najarian is a woman on a mission—she understands the destruction a tiny tick can wreak on people’s lives. Lisa Najarian is a woman on a...
Cerenity Senior Care’s Volunteers Help Residents Feel at Home
Cerenity seeks to create a community and care for the whole person. Not too long ago, Carolyn Roberts retired from her healthcare job. When her mom...
Two Area Writers Mentor Inmates through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop
The Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW) is helping inmates in prisons across Minnesota find their voices. “MPWW is a nonprofit that fosters...
White Bear Lake’s JDog Junk Removal & Hauling Brings a Sense of Community to Veterans
In some ways, Josh Helm—a White Bear Lake High School graduate, an Iraq veteran and owner of the White Bear Lake JDog Junk Removal &...
Run for a Cause
Join the White Bear Lake Rotary for their Strive Scholarship Race. Grab your running shoes and get ready to run a race for good. The Rotary Strive...
Notes on Local Beauty
White Bear Lake man creates notecards featuring White Bear Lake businesses. The White Bear Lake area is full of beautiful landscapes and businesses...
KID Packs Program Fights Hunger This Summer
Summer is just around the corner, and it can be a hard time for kids who depend on getting their lunch from school. The White Bear Lake Emergency...
A Community Group Helps Bring Sunshine for Terminally Ill Children
Sharing Smiles—Team Meagan was born three years ago when Cari Rickman wanted to give back after losing her daughter who was awaiting a third heart...
Local Nonprofit Digs In to Help Those with Food Insecurity
In January 2017, Chris Harms founded Giving Gardens, a nonprofit organization helping White Bear Lake-area residents grow produce for donation to...
Four Women Bike across the U.S. to Raise Awareness for Wild Lands
The sound of bicycle wheels on the hard ground followed Hannah Scott Field, Alex Benjamin, Katie Ledermann and Ariana Amini as they trekked across...
Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly Provides Companionship to Isolated Elders
The year is 1946, the place, France. World War II has only recently ended, and the people of Europe struggle. Poverty runs high, and many in the...
Houses and Hope
POP Realty offers reduced rates and a philanthropic twist. Shawn Wilson worked in the realty world for four years before recognizing the necessity...
