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Be a big supporter for a lil’ guy

Posted in Fundraisers, tagged , , , , on May 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Callum Flack

Fourth-generation Whidbey farmers Kyle and Paige (Mueller) Flack recently added son #3, Callum, to the family, but the future tiller of the land has had a difficult entrance to the world.

Born at 41 weeks after a challenging labor, he has an underdeveloped lower jaw, making it difficult for him to breathe on his own.

Callum has been transferred to Seattle Children’s Hospital, where he is in the NICU.

Fighting dangerously low oxygen levels, he is in a 72-hour protocol to cool his brain and prevent further injury.

Kyle and Paige, a former Coupeville High School basketball player who went on to work as an elementary school librarian in Cow Town, face mounting medical bills.

There is also the cost of transportation between Whidbey and Seattle, and the challenges of being away from their farm and two older sons, who are four and six.

Family friends have launched a GoFundMe to help, and you can read more and donate at:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-baby-callum-and-the-flack-family

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Former Wolf cheerleader faces tough health fight

Posted in Cheer, Fundraisers, tagged , , , , on January 11, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Jessica (Bester) Nelson

Family members have launched a GoFundMe to assist a former Wolf athlete facing a battle with Multiple Sclerosis.

Jessica (Bester) Nelson, 26, attended middle school in Coupeville, playing basketball, and went on to be a member of the cheer squad as a CHS freshman, joining her cousin, Ciera St Onge.

Nelson has spent the past five weeks in the hospital and a rehabilitation facility and has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and neuromyelitis.

On the GoFundMe page, her mother says her daughter “no longer has use of her legs, and her hands are locked.”

Nelson is in need of “a wheelchair, toiletries, slippers and non-slip socks, belts for lifting, a transfer board, a wheelchair lift for their truck, and numerous other items” and the fundraiser is being launched to “alleviate some of the burden on her wife both financially and physically.”

For more info and to help, pop over to:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-daughter-live-comfortably-with-ms

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Help support wife, daughter of beloved teacher

Posted in Fundraisers, tagged , , , , , on December 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Edmundo Corrales and his family.

Several communities are rallying to help the wife and young daughter of a well-loved local teacher killed in a head-on car collision Monday by Deception Pass.

Edmundo Corrales, a 2007 graduate of Oak Harbor High School who lived on Whidbey, taught Spanish and coached multiple sports in the Anacortes School District.

His connections to The Rock were many, as he played on the OHHS state championship football team in 2006 alongside current Coupeville gridiron coaches Bobby Carr and Bennett Richter.

Corrales also worked at Oak Harbor’s Blue Fox Drive-In Theater before becoming a teacher.

After earning his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and exercise science at Whitworth University, the former Wildcat was hired as an assistant football coach at Sedro-Woolley High School, where he worked for his former OHHS coach, Dave Ward.

Corrales has worked for the Anacortes School District since 2018, where he coached golf, wrestling, and trap and skeet shooting.

Friends of the family have launched a GoFundMe to aid his wife, Meghan, and their seven-month-old daughter, Daphne.

For more info and to help, pop over to:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-family-of-mundo-corrales

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Wolf ace chases overseas soccer dreams

Posted in Fundraisers, soccer, tagged , , , , on November 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Chayse Van Velkinburgh (right) is chasing his soccer dream. (Photo courtesy Jessica Van Velkinburgh)

You can help Chayse chase his pitch dream.

Coupeville Middle School 8th grader Chayse Van Velkinburgh has been picking up plenty of overseas soccer experience in the past couple of years, and he has an opportunity for much more.

The fleet-footed booter’s family has launched a GoFundMe to allow his supporters to help him raise the money necessary for a three-month full-time residency at the prestigious Madrid Euro Soccer Academy in Spain.

Cost is $13,300 and the fundraiser is 9% fulfilled in a little under 24 hours.

For more info on Van Velkinburgh’s soccer odyssey, pop over to:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-chayses-dream-madrid-soccer-academy?qid=d55c741d7a961e63982f4a069f20b0ed

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Your bucks, their base hits

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on September 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The Island Vipers celebrate softball tourney success this past summer. (Photo courtesy Grant Van Dyke)

Softball is booming on Whidbey Island and you can help local players be on a competitive footing with their big city rivals.

The Island Vipers, who field U14 and U16 travel squads, pull diamond dandies from all three area high schools, with Wolves, Falcons, and Wildcats joining together to form dynamic squads.

As they look ahead to future seasons, the players and coaches are reaching out to their community for support with a GoFundMe which will help with travel expenses and much more.

The Whidbey slugger you finance today is the potential superstar of tomorrow, so consider shaking out the ol’ wallet.

For more info and to donate, pop over to:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/island-vipers-select-all-island-softball-team?qid=fa8188291a48e3e62765c8e23ac5384b

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