Newspaper With a Heart
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43rd Year
- Woman Waits to Return to Work After Stroke, Surgery
- Couple Faces Hurdles to Keep Medical Insurance Coverage
- Fight With Cancer Strains Publix Worker's Finances
- Man, Family Optimistic Despite Financial Woes
- Struggle With Gout Puts Mosaic Employee Behind on Bills
- Tumor Knocks Working Couple Into Scramble For Basics, Medicine
- Program to Help Woman Gain Access by Widening Door
- Medical Woes, Bills Leave Painter in Limbo
- Program Helps Injured Electrician With Bills
- Woman With Health Woes Reaches Out to Program
- Fixed Gas Tank Takes Some Worries Off of Single Mom
- Power Problem Leaves Woman on Fixed Income Without Air Conditioning During Summer
- Program Gives Woman Trailer For Electric Scooter
- Newspaper With a Heart Launches 43rd Season
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42nd Year
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- Polk Woman Battles Illness, Not Knowing If Treatment Will Be Covered
- Rare, Debilitating Disease Leaves Family Struggling
- Heart Attacks Leave Lakeland Mother Strapped
- Former Truck Driver and Her Husband Struggling
- Program Helps Couple With Insurance Issues
- Baffling Heart Infection Saps Nurse of Energy and Income
- Dad's Cancer, Infection Lead to Financial Struggle for Family
- A Little Help Turns Man's Determination and Skills Into a Future
- Ex-Food Server Hurt by Economy
- Motorcycle Accident, Unemployment Leave Man and His Family Adrift
- Injury, Unemployment Leave Couple in Desperate Straits
- Struggle With Diabetes Weighs on Man's Finances
- Lake Wales Caregiver Now Needs A Bit of Help
- Government's Help Not Always Enough
- Insurance Doesn't Cover All Income Lost to Illness
- Man's Illness Strains Family's Resources
- Boy's MRSA Infection Has Meant Months of Trial, Hardship for Family
- Newspaper With A Heart Program Has Doled Out $2.7 Million Since Start
41st Year
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- Heart Campaign Raises $251,647
- Expenses of Life Don't Stop When Illness Sets In
- Newspaper With A Heart Program Ends Having Hit High of $246,977
- Fractured Pelvis Idles Nursing Assistant
- Newspaper with a Heart Donor List
- Job Loss Deals Blow to Single Mother
- Families Helped by Newspaper With a Heart
- Falling Sales, Health Woes Put Family in Bind
- Accident Hampers Struggling Family's Mobility
- Publix Cook Struggles To Get By After Surgery
- 'Aggressive' Disease Puts Strain on Family
- Couple Raising Three Grandchildren Needs Help
- Perils of Young Parenthood
- Roof Over One's Head Not Always A Given
- Father's Battle With Disease Hurts Family
- Families Helped by Newspaper With a Heart
- Comforts Of a New Roof Ease Burdens
- 26 Years After First Incidence, Disease Returns
- Ex-Truck Driver Faces Huge Bills From Heart Attack
- Dozens Get Help From The 'Heart'
- Polk City Mom Struggles in Cancer Recovery
40th Year
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- Heart Program Has a Record Year
- Ledger's Fund Surpasses Goal
- Liver Disease Raised Need for Assistance
- Nearly $230,000 Raised For Needy; More Likely
- Baby's Health Troubles Overwhelm a Family
- Newspaper With A Heart Donor List
- Skipping Breast Exams Proves Costly; Cancer Puts Couple in Crisis
- Some Families You Are Helping
- With Husband Very Ill, Nurse Overwhelmed
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- Physical and Financial Pain
- Family Faces Perfect Storms of Problems
- Baby's Heart Problem Puts a Heavy Weight on Couple's Shoulders
- Abscess Painful, Physically and Financially
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- 'Heart' Reporter To Chat Online
- Lives End or Change in a Blink
- Optimistic Woman Needs A Little Help After Illness
- Eyesight Disease Has Former Trucker Parked
- Losing His Job Puts Machinist in 'Dire Straits'
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- Severe Lupus Keeps Woman From Teaching
- Medical Treatment Isolates Daughter
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- Man's Health Declines After Wife's Death
- Program Following Up With Ailing Child
- Husband Suffers Illness, and Wife's Hours Are Cut
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- Illness Stalls Jason Slaton's Law Enforcement Career
- After Mother's Illness, Children Do Odd Jobs to Keep Family Afloat
- 'Living for Christmas'
- Lakeland Couple Reaches Out for Help
- Program Marks Four Decades of Help, Hope
39th Year
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- Polk's Heart Pumps Out 'Remarkable Year'
- Stroke Leaves Couple Fighting Foreclosure
- Boy's Cancer Leaves Family Struggling
- Father of Four Loses Battle With Cancer
- Recurring Illnesses Keep Trucker Off Road, In Debt
- Coveted, Needed New Set of Wheels Donated
- Disorder Puts Man Out of Job, In the Dark
- Auburndale Girl Vows to Walk
- Surgery, Cranky Car Create Financial Problem
- Teen Sees His Way Clear to Recovery
- Tumor Cloaks Teen's World in Darkness
- Amputee, Family Get Help From Charity
- Stroke Ruins Plans For Retirement
- Illness, Work Injury Leave Polk Family Struggling With Bills
- Wahneta Teen Calmly Approaches Removal of Brain Tumor
- 3-Year-Old's Illness a Mystery to Doctors
- Eye Disorder Threatens to Finish College Football Scholarship
- Cancer Idles Busy Hands Of Father, Breadwinner
- Winter Haven Man's Motorcycle Hit by Pickup
- Cancer Patient Struggles After Losing Job
- Intestinal Ailment Leaves David Lima Out of Work
- Nearly $2 Million Given Out as 39th Year Begins
38th Year
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- Heart Program Raises $181,806
- Church Sells Lakeland Mobile Home Park to University
- Polk Man, 35, Uses Pair Of Artificial Legs to Overcome Birth Defect
- Couple Take In 3 Children - Then Trouble Arrives
- Girl's illness Puts Family In Deep Financial Trouble
- A'dale Woman Strives to Pay Bills After Losing Two Husbands
- Mother Supports Husband, Six Children With Two Jobs
- A Bullet in Her Back, But She Can't Quit
- Long Cancer Fight Puts Couple in a Bind
- Woman Battles Diabetes, Financial Hardship
- Cancer Casts Shadow Over Family's Dream
- Life of Clean Living Still Leaves Pain
- Family Swamped By Illness, Debt
- Some Families You Helped
- Young Mother Battles Tumor on Brain
- Health Troubles Try Mom Of Three
- 'We Just Decided to Put It in God's Hands'
- Program Helps Struggling Families Shop for Holidays
- Daughter's Cancer Stresses Couple; Asthma Forces Mother to Leave Work
- No Tree This Year For Trucking Family
- Wheelchair Limits Mobility for Shooting Victim
- He Protected and Served, but No More
- Dying Woman Gets by on Heart
- Hoping for Time
- Family Misses Dad
- Crash Robs Family of Ability to Make Ends Meet
- Lakeland Family Falls on Hard Times Because of Tiny Creature's Bite
- 2006-2007 Newspaper With a Heart Campaign
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- In Its 38th Year, Newspaper With A Heart Helping More Than Before
37th Year
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- Ledger 'Heart' Program Donors Set Record
- Ledger Readers Raise $169,692 for Charity
- Cancer Care Drains Family
- Family Faces Tight Finances After Man Is Hurt at His Workplace
- Charley Took Home, Cancer Took Job
- Dreams Fade to Sad Reality for Struggling Pair
- Disease Robs Woman's Breath
- Sick of Beans, He Wants Hamburger
- Family Endures Several Years of Illnesses and Injuries
- Diabetes Sours Local Farmer
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- Family Fights Through Troubles
- Single Mom Cares for Family in the Wake of Her Mother's Death
- Grandmother Struggles With Toddler's Dietary Disorder
- Heart Surgery Puts Strain On Disabled Veteran's Family
- Spree for Free
- Breast Cancer Detours Family's Hopes
- Donated Home With All the Trimmings Eases Hurricane Loss
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- Slowed by MS, an ex-Dancer Needs Help to Get Around
- Baby's Surgery Leaves Family Finances in Ruin
- Sisters Care for Ailing Mother
- Accident Claims Woman's Mobility
- Stroke Draws Couple Closer
- Breathing Trouble Fells Working Man
- Single Mom Needs Help After Injury
- Boy With Autism and Down Syndrome Fights Serious Illness
- Poor Health, Storms Leave Family in Bind
- Lakeland Man Gets Lung Transplants, Sinks Into Debt
- Program Helps Polk Residents in Need
36th Year
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- Heart Fund-Raiser Helps Hundreds
- Mother Had to Change Address To Bring Her Disabled Son Home
- Vision Problems Only Led to Other Troubles
- Rare Disorder Reverses Toddler's Progress
- Man Faces Stomach Cancer, Job Loss and Mounting Bills
- Family Struggles To Repair Boy's Legs
- Newspaper With a Heart Donors
- Family Suffers Effects of Collision
- Mom Struggles to Care for Profoundly Disabled 19-Year-Old
- Family Struggles With Cost of Child's Medications
- Pair Struggle to Get By, Make Life Sweet for Sick Baby
- Ledger Program Spurs Generosity
- Benefit Cuts Create Debt Woes
- Future Lawyer Vows To Dance Again
- Mold Further Threatens Boy's Health
- Hurricanes, Cancers Hit Family Hard
- Newspaper With a Heart Donors
- She's Hoping She'll Finally Be Healthy
- 'Heart' Recipients Happy to Get Into Holiday Buying Mode
- They Were in Love and Too Young to Think About Death
- Mother Clings to Final Years With Fatally ill Son
- She Was Faced With Only One Option
- Heart Problems Lead To Other Difficulties
- Disease Drains Woman's Energy, Finances
- Illness, Finances Challenge Family's Stability
- Aunt Wants to Care for Niece in Polk City Home
- Family Copes With Daughter's Neuromuscular Disease
- Lakeland Man's Health Problems Affect Two Families
- Realities Of Illness Hit Hard, Quick
- A Baby's Health Problems Strain a Family's Finances
- Family's Food Stamp Crisis Is Resolved
FAMILIES YOU'VE HELPED: Meet some of the families assisted by your donations.
DONOR TOTALS
Current donations: $330,244Last year: $352,685
HOW YOU CAN HELP
The Ledger and United Way pay all administrative costs. Gifts are tax deductible.Donation Online:
Now you can contribute to Newspaper With a Heart online using a credit card. Go to: www.theledger.com/heartdonation (Powered by Qgiv.com)Mail contributions to:
Newspaper With a HeartP.O. Box 408
Lakeland FL 33802
(Make checks payable to "Newspaper With a Heart")
HOW IT WORKS
Newspaper with a Heart gives direct assistance to roughly 150 individuals and families in need.No money goes directly to the people helped, but rather to landlords, mortgage holders, utilities and other creditors.
Besides cash, contributions often include gifts such as cars, equipment for the handicapped and other items. Many recipients have nowhere else to turn in a county where the social service network is often overwhelmed by need.
All decisions for assistance are made by the Newspaper with a Heart committee.
The committee includes representatives of The Ledger, United Way, Florida Department of Children & Families, Hampton Disability Specialists, Lake Wales Care Center, Polk County Social Services and Salvation Army. Assistance with accounting services is provided by CPS Investment Advisors and SunTrust.
TO APPLY FOR HELP
All applications for Newspaper with a Heart are initially processed by United Way of Central Florida's Information and Referral service. Applicants need to have available such personal information as Social Security numbers, salary pay stubs and other documentation supporting needs.To apply, call 211 or 863-648-1515 or 800-881-8929 weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.Newspaper with a Heart's registration number with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is CH12293.