"Providing Warmth and Hope in Every Stitch"

"Providing Warmth and Hope in Every Stitch"


Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and fund our mission.

Wright County Historical Society, Buffalo, MN
We will be participating, once again, in the Wright County Historical Society Festival of Trees. This is the biggest indoor Christmas tree festival in Minnesota. This event is FREE for everyone. All visitors can vote for their favorite trees, engage in fun activities, write Santa, browse in their holiday gift
shop, and upload a picture to Santa.
Trees with the most votes will win the coveted WCHS Festival of Trees Medals in multiple categories! We won FIRST place in the boosted category. Please come out, have fun and vote for our tree!

Pete Stachowicz was a fun, athletic, adventurous and successful young man. He loved playing hockey (two-time State title wins, two All Star games, Academic All Star for four years, two NIHL state wins, DuPage County Second Line, and captain Jr. and Sr. yrs), running cross-country (freshman Most Improved runner), fishing, baseball (two-time All Star) and traveling. He graduated in 2016 from the University of Minnesota- Carlson School of Management majoring in management information systems. He had landed his dream job at Securian Financial in St. Paul. Only one short year later at the age of 24, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor called anaplastic astrocytoma with an incredibly rare tumor pattern called gliomatosis celebri. This pattern affects three of the four lobes in the brain. This aggressive and cruel cancer took away his ability to speak, walk and control of his dominant right side. While he only lived for eighteen months after he was diagnosed, he never gave up hope and battled this cancer without one complaint. With great difficulty he was able to say to us, and we share this with those battling cancer, “Don’t give up hope!”

The Peter Stachowicz Foundation is a Minnesota-based, 501c3 nonprofit (92-1846374). Our mission is to offer local cancer patients support, comfort and hope by donating homemade, crocheted blankets. Our vision is to positively impact the lives of those battling cancer. We want to inspire and encourage those through the telling of Peter’s journey of Hope.



















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