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Updated: Dec. 4, 2020 at 9:06 PM EST
|By Dawne Gee
Pass the Cash at WAVE 3 News makes a difference, but what happens after a recipient’s story airs is often a true miracle.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2020 at 11:22 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
As always, WAVE Country has its saints and soldiers ready and working.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2019 at 1:11 AM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Marietta cares for her four grandchildren whose father passed away and mother isn't in the picture. But she's struggling to make ends meet.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2019 at 10:18 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Lyn’s childhood friend, Bobby, is in the middle of a home repair nightmare.
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Updated: Jul. 24, 2019 at 8:44 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Cherish informed Henry that not only was her partner Ray fighting to regain his life, he was also fighting to keep their home. The couple received an eviction notice not long after Ray became unable to work.
Updated: Jul. 17, 2019 at 9:13 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
For four weeks Shane has been under medical care, unable to work.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2019 at 5:53 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Sharon went into heart failure and the care she required at times was far from home.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2019 at 5:13 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
The 20-year Highview Fire veteran was promised a new air conditioner by Bowman's Heating and Cooling - and they made good on the commitment.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2019 at 9:56 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
In addition to his health struggles, Mike Henson’s home was also without air conditioning.
Updated: May. 22, 2019 at 5:22 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
In a first, the cash was passed through multiple people before reaching its recipient - Crystal.
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Updated: May. 15, 2019 at 5:46 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Shawn's co-worker Regina said he’s been having trouble with his blood pressure and heart for around a year.
Updated: May. 8, 2019 at 10:34 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Belinda lost her home in a fire - but seeing as her insurance has lapsed, she won't have any financial help rebuilding.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2019 at 7:35 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Cathy worked at Circle K until she just couldn’t work anymore - not by choice but by circumstance.
Updated: Apr. 10, 2019 at 11:51 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
You don’t have to know people very long to care about them, especially when you see they may need a little care.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2019 at 9:02 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Each week on WAVE 3 News, we help someone in the community who's in need. This week, it was Tracy, who just underwent a double lung transplant.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2019 at 10:41 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Julie gives absolutely all that she has to her boys, who have Lowe syndrome. Their situation is critical and rare.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2019 at 1:05 AM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Darlene raises her three grandsons on her own. Co-workers say she's always positive, but they know she needed some help.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2019 at 1:04 AM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Kaylee has been in a wheelchair for years, and as she gets older, she needs her own handicap-accessible room in her family's home.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2019 at 5:24 PM EST
|By Dawne Gee
Even when Ms. Kathy's car doesn't work, she does.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2019 at 10:08 PM EST
|By Dawne Gee
Bob's mother's home needed major repairs, and he did the best he could with the savings he had to keep them from becoming homeless. But so much more needs to be done.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2019 at 11:41 PM EST
|By Dawne Gee
Mike is celebrating the birth of his first child, while also fighting to stay alive.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2019 at 10:31 PM EST
|By Dawne Gee
Sometimes it takes a village to solve a crisis and this week WAVE Country came through.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2019 at 12:16 AM EST
|By Dawne Gee
Shannon was diagnosed with breast cancer a little over a year ago. But in the midst of her own troubles, just days after Thanksgiving, her husband suffered a heart attack and died.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2019 at 11:11 PM EST
|By Dawne Gee
It was a group of coworkers whose nomination called us to Scottsburg to help a single mom fight for her life and her family.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2018 at 1:32 AM EST
|By Dawne Gee
Kathy reached out to WAVE 3 News to Pass the Cash to her longtime friend, Valerie. The two have been friends for 55 years.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2018 at 11:14 PM EST
|By Dawne Gee
When a restaurant regular heard about one of the waitresses being robbed at an ATM, he wanted to help.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2018 at 12:30 AM EST
|By Dawne Gee
SaeVon, 18, was hit and killed while riding a bicycle home from work just one week ago. His family is struggling to pay to bury him.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2018 at 11:49 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Joel and Dennis have known each other since they were 12.They now work together in construction, but work has been sparse lately.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Jeff told us about a woman he works with, Ms. Joanie, who had to take five months off work for knee surgery and complications. And we all know, when it rains, it pours.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2018 at 11:25 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
TSA Officer Mewes stopped when she saw our Pass the Cash sign. She wanted to help her friend at work, Thomas.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2018 at 11:51 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Ms. Gladys suffers from Rheumatoid Arthritis and can't afford her medicine.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2018 at 10:56 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
This isn’t Jennifer's first battle with cancer, but she isn't giving up. She is fighting to live, for her kids.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2018 at 11:09 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
Miranda works to support her family and must pay for a nurse to help her children while she’s at work.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2015 at 9:51 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
It was a piece of snail mail that lead us to Pass the Cash in Okolona and a group of nurses from KentuckyOne Health who wrote that letter to help care for their co-worker.
Updated: Jun. 20, 2015 at 11:11 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
As a single mother with five children, including a daughter with Downs Syndrome, Kim has been balancing a host of financial and family struggles. But now she has had to deal with the loss of a child.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2013 at 10:19 PM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
In July we Passed the Cash to Carol Engle and now, three months later thanks to several prayers, donations and volunteers Chad's room is finally complete.
Updated: Jul. 25, 2013 at 10:51 AM EDT
|By Dawne Gee
In a fairy tale like no other, folks in our community came together to make this couple's day a day like no other.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2013 at 5:25 PM EDT
The family had just been evicted from their home when they received $1,000, thanks to a viewer who wrote WAVE 3 News wanting to Pass the Cash.
Updated: Jun. 13, 2013 at 5:55 PM EDT
Vickie Calhoun, 35, suffered from Crohn's Disease, and family members say they don't have the money to bury the mother of five.