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ABC11 Together: Making a Difference in the Community

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Highlights from our favorite ABC11 Together stories from 2016 (WTVD)

The strength of the human spirit is great, and the willingness to help others is inspirational. It's these characteristics for which our community is known.

It's been a special year of neighbors helping neighbors, strangers helping strangers, and ABC11 Together spotlighting good deeds and community needs.

North Carolina poet Maya Angelou once said, "When you give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

It's in that spirit that ABC11 Together highlights ways our community gives back to others.

Watch the videos in the players below for some of the most memorable stories from 2016.

ABC11 Together makes a difference in the community

ABC11 Togther highlights the strength of human spirit

ABC11 Together spotlights community needs

ABC11 Together spotlights how our viewers can help


Want to learn more about these stories? Check out the links below:

Elderly man surprised with act of kindness at Chapel Hill auto shop

Raleigh man provides free lawn care for the elderly

Teens of mission trip repaid homes in Fayetteville

Community pitches in to make home wheelchair-friendly
Community helps renovate home
Company donated heating and air system for the simple price of a hug


Hometown hero family receives their new home

Holly Springs officer helps family with his own money

NC collects 10,000 bottles of water for Flint, Michigan



Kids' lemonade stand raises money for law enforcement
Boys in Harnett County use lemonade stand to raise money for charity
Two young residents of the Carolina Lakes subdivision near Sanford, NC spent Sunday afternoon raising money for a special cause.


Raleigh man collecting supplies for Louisiana flood victims

Hope Mills Alzheimer's facility gutted by floods

Tarboro animal shelter gets help after flooding

Thank you! ABC11 viewers make Matthew food drive a huge success
Viewers, partners and community help make food drive a huge success
The food and financial donations poured in Tuesday to help Hurricane Matthew victims. We filled up 15 trucks and raised more than $130,000. So far, the donations mean more than 713,000 meals for those in need.


Food Drive items already helping feed Goldsboro victims

ABC11 Together Food Drive collects more than 1 million meals

Honoring 9/11 victims with day of service

Fun and fireworks in downtown Raleigh
The Works wrapup
The 'Works dazzled crowds in downtown Raleigh. Fort Bragg put on a spectacular fireworks show, too. See all the fun and festivities from Independence Day across Central NC right here.


La Fiesta is a party for all

Sights and sounds from Cary's Lazy Dayz

ABC11 joins the Angels Among Us 5K in Durham

Stogner Strong: Walk to Defeat ALS

Triangle ALS Walk
The ABC11 Stogner Strong team walked Saturday with others still fighting the disease and for those who have lost the battle.


Larry Stogner, veteran ABC11 anchor, dies

Family, friends come out to ABC11 Match Madness

Raleigh 9-month-old gets his bone marrow match

Local contractors donating life-changing bathroom renovation

With help from ABC11 viewers, Wake Forest mom finally gets special van
With help from ABC11 viewers, Wake Forest mom finally gets special van
A Wake Forest family is enjoying a life changing gift thanks to the outpouring support from ABC11 viewers. Ursula Thompson and her two girls, Jaidah and Morgan, finally have the wheelchair-accessible van they've been praying for.


Knightdale woman gets dream porch in time for the holidays

Family struggles to get modified van for wheelchair

Father's lost class ring returned to Cary woman

Duke cancer patient, 13, gets dance video birthday wish
Nurses at Duke help boy with 'Running Man Challenge'
Nurses at Duke Hospital work to make a birthday wish come true for a Howell Brown, a 13-year-old with stage 4 brain cancer


Superheroes swoop in to cheer up terminally ill child

Girl with rare condition gets heartwarming surprise

Boy with cerebral palsy becomes an ABC11 weatherman
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