What a tremendous gift it has been! After entering United Way’s Trick My Trike contest, our continual supporters of Children’s Village and The Memorial Foundation – Avail Home Health – donated a Rifton Therapeutic Tricycle. Cyndi Mullenhoff, owner of Avail Home Health in Yakima, had been in constant communication and advised by Children’s Village Lead [...]

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When I first found out that I would be needed to fill in at Children’s Village, my first thought was how difficult it was going to be to do my job with the additional clinical duties. Now that I’m back, I can say that I had forgotten what a pleasure it was to work here. [...]

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As I walk into Children’s Village from the parking lot each day, I inevitably meet families where children are literally “running” across our bridge into Children’s Village.  Having worked in several medical facilities where the last thing a child would do would be to run TOWARDS the building, I think that this is a very [...]

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Still fresh in my mind as if it were just yesterday… I greeted Justin Noel and Mike Trammell of Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. at the covered  wagon reception desk in the front  lobby of Children’s Village. They had arrived for a  tour of the facility. As I led us through the Dental Clinic area, painted horses [...]

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Pingrey Motor Company has been a vital part of Yakima County for over 80 years.  Although the dealership is located in Selah, which is home to just over 7,000 people, Pingrey Motor Company has developed a reputation far beyond the city limits for its outstanding business and community service. A recent dealership endeavor benefited Children’s Village, an organization serving children with special health care or developmental needs [...]

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Seems every time someone tours Children’s Village and begins to understand the power that takes place, they give.  How can you not?  Knowledge of the work, the mission, the impact, gives visitors the power to change and life.  For some… it is the first time they have every understood that.  WE have to continue to educate, educate, [...]

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its [...]

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Children’s Village depends on community support, and on local donations through Children’s Miracle Network.  Yesterday, October 9th, was the first of three days of our local radiothon broadcast on 1280AM KIT and 107.3FM. Mike from KIT was at the Village, interviewing doctors from both Children’s Village and Seattle Children’s. As we prepared for the interviews, [...]

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As I toured visitors through Children’s Village, I was reminded over and over again what a remarkable place it is…  A place children with special needs and their families can come and feel comfortable, like their right at home with their friends and family.  A place of complete inclusion; a place that believes all children [...]

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You have dreams for your child — even before he is born into this world… You dream he will run and play, go to the beach and to the park — You wonder, will he like baseball? Or, music? Then, he is born — and, in the midst of silence and wide-eyes — you pray [...]

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