Posts Tagged ‘Tani Austin’
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…
Read MoreStarkey: Keeping the Sound Alive
As seen in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on 8/2/15 Every July cameras flash as limousines drop celebrities off to walk the red carpet at the St. Paul RiverCentre. It’s Starkey Foundation gala time. Last Sunday 1600 people gathered to enjoy a program featuring former President George W. Bush, the man he referred to as…
Read MoreMaking the Choice: Bitter or Better
As seen in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on 6/21/15 Eight summers ago I crafted my first column for these pages. With no plan, but a calling, I set my life on a new course, despite my editor’s observation that I’d picked a bad time to get into the newspaper business. Life changed dramatically after…
Read MoreOn a Hearing Mission: A Peruvian Adventure
September 5, 2014 I went on an adventure last week that filled my soul and created lasting memories. After I wrote a column about the Starkey Hearing Foundation, co-founder Tani Austin invited my daughter Julia and me to go on a mission to Peru. I’d told Tani I was interested in seeing firsthand how the…
Read MoreThe 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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