Generations of generosity

Generations of generosity

Doreen Guenette (centre) with her children and grandchildren. Missing: Nicole Tweedy and Damian Tweedy-Flett. What began as a tiny seed has now blossomed into an enduring legacy of giving. When Doreen Guenette’s husband passed away in 2000, she decided to make a...
Slices of kindness

Slices of kindness

Joe Aiello is, as he himself has said of others, the kind of person who makes this big small town the best. When he’s not pulling double duty at Power 97 as Program Director and a co-host of Power Mornings, the veteran of Winnipeg’s airwaves is giving back to his...
Sons have big hearts

Sons have big hearts

Winnipeg’s Order Sons of Italy, Garibaldi Lodge, planted a seed with their gift of $100,000 to St. Boniface Hospital Research in 2013; the Canada Italy Tissue Engineering Laboratory (CITEL) was born. The program focuses on cardiac stem cell therapy and tissue...
Wrapped in love

Wrapped in love

Bentley was born without a heartbeat. He was delivered at 31 weeks. Only after spending 42 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Boniface Hospital, was he finally able to go home. Today, he’s a healthy, growing boy! Together with his parents, Chris...
LIGHT-saving treatment

LIGHT-saving treatment

When babies are born, we delight in their soft skin and tiny miracle bodies. We take joy in parents’ carefully-curated social media feeds, and adore every perfect dimple and roll. But one surprisingly common thing we don’t often see shared on social media is a newborn...