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4 stories exploring community-service across the city.
In Brandon and the surrounding Westman region, volunteers stitch together services and friendships—from food runs to youth mentorship—creating practical safety nets and quiet resilience that reshape what public care looks like in changing times.
A grassroots program in Brandon mobilizes hundreds of volunteers for meals, home repairs, mentorship and crisis response, reshaping local expectations about service and revealing how structured, family-friendly volunteering strengthens Westman's social fabric.
A century of unpaid work—firefighters, hospital auxiliaries, immigrant mutual aid and student volunteers—has underpinned Brandon's civic life. This retrospective traces that legacy, its modern strains, and how evolving service models could sustain community resilience.
Heather McLellan transformed Willow & Main from a neighborhood café into a coordinated platform for volunteer action, delivering meals, repairs, mentorship, and a new model for local civic leadership in Westman.