Wrangell and Petersburg join together to raise money for congenital heart defect research
Posted by Sage Smiley | Jul 19, 2021
Families of the three “heart warriors” honored at Wrangell and Petersburg’s first Heart Walk, 18 July 2021.
(Sage Smiley / KSTK)
Every 15 minutes, a kid in the U.S. is born with a heart defect. When two families from Wrangell and Petersburg found out their sons born less than a year apart had the same congenital heart defect, they teamed up to support each other and raise funds for research.
Listen to the story here.
At Wrangell’s downtown pavilion on Sunday (July 18), there were heartbeats everywhere. People have heartbeats, of course, but many were also