Bethel University students help small town rebuild after Hurricane Helene
Eleven college students from Bethel University in Minnesota ditched their traditional spring break trips to a North Carolina community in crisis.
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Eleven college students from Bethel University in Minnesota ditched their traditional spring break trips to a North Carolina community in crisis.
Eleven Bethel University students ditched their traditional spring break trip to help a community in crisis. They traveled down to a small town in North Carolina still recovering from Hurricane Helene. Derek James has more on how the Minnesotans left their mark.
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Several Minnesota breweries are stepping up to help another brewery with deep ties to the state. New Origin Brewing in Asheville, North Carolina was destroyed during Hurricane Helene. The power of the storm dropped a three-hundred-ton train and other debris where the brewery once stood. Our Jason Rantala has the story.
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