Make-A-Wish

Ronnell Hargraves and Melissa Jacques from Raymour & Flanigan shared their support for Make-A-Wish/Miles for Smiles.

Ronnell Hargraves and Melissa Jacques from Raymour & Flanigan shared their support for Make-A-Wish/Miles for Smiles.

A Make-a-Wish kid from Guilford has been waiting three years to go on a trip of a lifetime.

NBC and Telemundo Connecticut have launched this year’s Miles for Smiles campaign, collecting your unused airline miles to help grant travel wishes for Connecticut’s Make-a-Wish kids.

NBC Connecticut and Telemundo Connecticut present Miles for Smiles! For over a decade we have fulfilled travel wishes for deserving Make-A-Wish kids in Connecticut. Thanks to your ongoing support, we have collected over 32.5 million airline miles to help Make-A-Wish fulfill many of their wish kids’ travel wishes! We look forward to presenting another exciting year together to help many…

A chemistry teacher from Berlin with a special tie to Johnny Depp, now also has his words as the foreword to her latest book.

“I’ve been unbelievably blessed,” Katie Vandrilla said. That blessing, found on one of the first few pages of Vandrilla’s book, “Thumper’s London Adventure,” is a foreword by none other than actor Johnny Depp. “He found my first book that was dedicated to him and he was very touched by that and then when the second book was getting ready,...

Three Make-A-Wish kids from Connecticut are getting the trip of a lifetime and heading to this year’s Super Bowl.

Nine- year-old Bodie and his family look forward to having his wish granted after beating cancer for the second time.

Sylas Peyre, a Wish-Kid with Make- A- Wish CT is now in remission and had his wish granted to him last year.

Mystic Aquarium and Make-A-Wish help make one child’s dream come true full of penguins and beluga whales.

Decked out in a Mystic Aquarium uniform just his size, a 5-year-old Make-A-Wish child from Maine came to Connecticut to become a penguin trainer.