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Caring & Sharing

For the month of December KUMD brings you Caring & Sharing, a series connecting you with non-profit organizations making a difference in the Northland. Learn about help that is available to our community all year long and how you can help this holiday season.Catch Caring & Sharing on Northland Morning every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from December 4 through January 4.

12/23 Caring & Sharing: Circle of Hope breaks circle of fear

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published December 23, 2015 at 1:18 PM CST

Imagine it: you get sick with breast cancer and you can't work. Maybe you lose your insurance. Meanwhile, your bills are piling up because you can't work and there's no insurance paying for your medical treatment.It's a vicious circle. As we kick off our 8th year of KUMD's Caring & Sharing holiday series, we introduce you to an organization called Circle of Hope, a non-profit organization to help breast cancer patients pay their bills, provide them with some fun activities, and even fund research into metastatic breast cancer.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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