Starkey Hearing Foundation: Connecting Hearts With Hearing Aids

8/13/17 This story appeared in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.  On a Sunday afternoon in July, it happened again. Limousines swept into St. Paul and dropped a parade of celebrities off on the red carpet at the St. Paul RiverCentre. It was the Starkey Hearing Foundation’s annual gala, and gawkers and media were snatching glimpses…

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The Starkey Foundation: Delivering Hearing Aids and Respect

This piece appeared on the St. Paul Pioneer Press Opinion Page on July 25, 2014 Since I attended the annual Starkey Foundation gala I’ve thought about some of the most poignant sounds in my life: my children’s first cries as they entered the world; the “I do’s” when my stepchildren and their spouses exchanged wedding…

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