Willmar area community groups encourage acts of kindness Dec. 13-19 The Light Up Willmar Lakes Area campaign, organized by the Community Leadership Team for COVID-19, is encouraging people to help one another out and bring the community closer together during a year where more kindness is needed. 5:22 am, Dec. 12, 2020 × WILLMAR — More than 20 community partners from the Willmar Lakes region have come together to promote a week-long giving back campaign within the community in the face of a strenuous and uncertain year. The ad hoc group, Community Leadership Team for COVID-19, had its first meeting in March of this year, according to Sara Carlson, executive director of the Willmar Area Community Foundation, which is the organizing engine behind the group.