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For National Lego Day, Matt Laramie is delivering 100 Lego sets to Worcester pediatric cancer patients and kids in need Updated Jan 28, 2021; Posted Jan 28, 2021 Matt Laramie, the founder of Matt’s Lego Drive for Kids with Cancer, is aiming to donate 500 sets of Legos. He has made donations already at UMass Memorial Medical Center. Courtesy photo. Facebook Share With Thursday marking National Lego Day, Matt Laramie is continuing the effort he started with “Matt’s Lego Drive for Kids with Cancer” by dropping off 100 Lego sets to pediatric cancer patients in Worcester and other childr...

Print Michael Contreras had just laid his 8-month-old son, Ethan, down to sleep on the oncology ward of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on Christmas Eve when a jolly red stranger appeared in the room. “I was like, ‘Oh, Santa!’” Contreras said. “I didn’t know they were going to do that due to COVID.” Having a child in the hospital is agony for any family, but having one stuck there for Christmas can be especially hard. In a typical year, L.A.'s children’s hospitals are flooded with Santa Clauses, carolers and other merry-making volunteers who brighten the season for sick...

Consider this the holiday cheer you need as we close out a less than cheerful year. Santa made a special visit in the NICU at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital to visit the tiniest patients there. In a press release via Spectrum Beat, there's over 80 babies who will be spending their first Christmas in the NICU in Grand Rapids. Santa went around and met each baby and took pictures with them and their parents. The real gifts though were the adorable babies who were dressed in tutus, bows, hats, and even Santa onesies. Santa Visits Tiniest Patients in Grand Rapids The man behind the red suit...