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Edina brothers launch business to bring kids to Timberwolves game
The Rebound Club brings NBA experiences to children battling life-threatening diseases.
EDINA, Minn. — Basketball brings people together for the better, whether by watching a Timberwolves game at Target Center or playing in the comfort of your own home.
Twelve-year-old Jack and 10-year-old Sam Hetherington, two brothers from Edina, want to bring that feeling to the masses. But first, the brothers are starting at M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital.
“It’s a hospital in our community that we would like to support,” Jack said.
They’re supporting the kids there who are battling life-threatening diseases.
“It’s kind of unfair that they have to stay in the hospital,” Sam said.
In August, the duo partnered with TB1 Fund and launched Rebound Club.
“We wanted to provide an NBA game for kids at Masonic so they can spend one day out of the hospital or one night to see a Wolves game,” Sam said.
“These unique experiences will provide moments of normalization and the opportunity to focus on fun in the midst of their medical experiences,” said Aimee Nelson, Director of Patient Family Support Services, at M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital.
Their initial goal was to raise $80,000, but they met the goal in just six weeks.
“[It was] a little social media, but we [also] reached out to family and friends to help us,” Jack said.
With the money, the Rebound Club secured a luxury suite at Target Center for 20 games throughout the season. Patients and their families can watch the game and enjoy food, drinks and an NBA Jam machine together.
“We think that it’s better if we give them a chance like we did as a kid,” Sam said.
“We are excited to team up with the Rebound Club to host some courageous and inspiring kids at Timberwolves games this season,” said Jake Vernon, SVP of Sales and Services. “We look forward to providing these brave families with an opportunity to spend time together and make some lasting memories at Target Center.”
Jack and Sam aren’t stopping now that their goal is reached. They hope to get even more families from M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital into the luxury suite during this season and next season. They’re also planning for the future.
“We’re looking to expand it to other teams in Minnesota like the Twins or the Vikings,” Jack said.
They’re enjoying doing this venture together as brothers.
“It’s been fun, you know? A good way to connect and just do something that we both love,” Jack said.
Rudy Gobert heard about what the Rebound Club was doing and decided to team up with them. Now, every child can leave with a signed item from Gobert.
If you want to donate tickets or money to the Rebound Club, click here.
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The crash happened when a Suburban pulling a trailer failed to stop at a stop sign, Minnesota State Patrol said.
WAUKENABO, Minn. — Two people from Minnetonka died in a crash Friday in Aitkin County while others, including children, were hurt.
According to Minnesota State Patrol, it happened at the intersection of Highway 169 and Grove Street/County Road 3 in Waukenabo Township at approximately 5:15 p.m.
A Suburban pulling a trailer was driving east on County Road 3 but did not stop at the stop sign at Highway 169, authorities said. The vehicle was struck by a northbound GMC Yukon. Two other vehicles were struck in the crash, but the people in those two cars were not injured.
In the Suburban, the driver sustained life-threatening injuries, according to State Patrol. Elizabeth Jane Baldwin, 61, of Minnetonka, and Marlo Dean Baldwin, 92, of Minnetonka, both died. Officials said the driver of the vehicle, a 61-year-old from Minnetonka, has life-threatening injuries.
There were six people in the Yukon when the crash occurred. The 44-year-old driver, as well as passengers ages 18, 14, and 11, sustained what officials described as life-threatening injuries. The other two passengers have non-life-threatening injuries.
Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash, but officials said Elizabeth Jane Baldwin had not been wearing a seatbelt.
Among those at the start line this year will be Alex Vigil.
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Pixar’s second installment of the movie features characters we’ve already met — Joy, Sadness and Anger — and gives them a new roommate named Anxiety.
MINNEAPOLIS — Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” universe plays out inside the mind of the movie’s adolescent protagonist, Riley.
She plays a kid from Minnesota whose family uproots her life by moving to San Francisco. But did you know that what plays out in Riley’s mind actually comes from the mind of a real-life Minnesotan?
“You are one of us!” said Breaking the News anchor Jana Shortal.
“Yes, I am!” said Burnsville native and the movie’s creator and director, Kelsey Mann.
Mann was chosen for the role by ANOTHER Minnesotan — Pete Docter, the man behind the original movie, “Inside Out.”
“I don’t know if Pete asked me to do this movie because I was from Minnesota and he was from Minnesota … I just think it worked out that way,” Mann said.
How two guys from the south metro made a pair of Pixar movies that would change the game is a hell of a story that began with Docter in 2015.
“He [Docter] was just trying to tell a fun story — an emotional, fun story — and didn’t realize how much it would help give kids a vocabulary to talk about things they were feeling because they are feeling those emotions, but they’re really hard to talk about,” Mann said.
Some parents, counselors and teachers might even tell you it did more good for kids than just entertain them. It unlocked their emotions and begged for what Mann set out to create at the beginning of 2020.
“That part was fun, particularly fun,” he said. “I think the daunting part was following up a film that everyone really loved.”
But Mann knew what he wanted to do with the movie’s follow-up, “Inside Out 2.”
“Diving into Riley’s adolescence … that was just fun,” he said.
This time around, Riley is 13, hitting puberty and facing all of what, and who, comes with it. The franchise’s second installment features characters we’ve already met — Joy, Sadness and Anger — and gives them a new roommate named Anxiety.
“I think that’s what’s fun about the ‘Inside Out’ world: You can take something we all know and give it a face,” Mann said. “We can give anxiety a name and a face.”
The film follows Riley’s emotions fighting it out for control of her life. Joy wants Riley to stay young and hold on only to joy, while anxiety is hell-bent on taking over Riley over at the age of 13 because as a lot of us know, that’s when anxiety often moves in.
“I always pitched it as a takeover movie, like an emotional takeover,” Mann said. “Anxiety can kind of feel like that; it can take over and kind of shove your other emotions to the side and repress them.”
For a kids’ movie, it’s hard to watch this animation play out, even when an adult has the keys to decide.
“I’m making a movie about anxiety and I still have to remind myself to have my anxiety take a seat,” Mann said.
All of our individual anxieties have a place in this world.
“The whole movie honestly is about acceptance. Both acceptance of anxiety being there and also of your own flaws,” said Mann.
Even for our kids, we have to remember that this is life.
Anxiety will come for them; it does for us all.
The “Inside Out” world just shows them it’s so.
