Mayo Clinic Health System has a new team member, Luca.
Luca is a big, lovable black lab working alongside health care workers as a service dog.
He’ll be spending time with cancer and occupational therapy patients, joining Mayo’s first service dog, Luna, in helping those in need of a furry friend.
“With the pandemic, the patients aren’t allowed to have visitors coming in with them that normally would. So they’re coming into the cancer center alone, facing something that’s scary, a major life-changing event. So just having another distraction, someone to visit them, just makes the journey easier,” said Mayo occupational therapist, Grace Skiles.
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Match Days support the Red Kettle campaign in La Crosse County during final push
Drive runs through December 24th
December 18, 2020 5:32 PM Greg White
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The league donated $500 Friday, which comes during a match day.
Members of La Crosse’s Riverfest hosted the match.
Donations of up to $10,000 on Friday were matched.
“We miss Riverfest, but a lot of their smiling faces are back out. And so it’s just a fun day to be out in the community, have our community celebrities of Riverfest out and about and helping the Salvation Army,” said Salvation Army of La Crosse County development director Christina Knudsen.