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get to know
Brock Strauch
Q &A
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN
YOU GROW UP?
An oceanographer.
WHAT COMES TO YOU NATURALLY?
Sports, helping others, and being
kind.
BIGGEST LIFE INSPIRATIONS?
My parents.
WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF?
How well my dog does tricks.
BEST WORDS OF WISDOM YOU’VE
RECEIVED?
Treat others the way you want to
be treated.
It all started with a few stuffed
bears. Last year, nine-year-old
Brock Strauch became something
of a Build-A-Bear Workshop
aficionado. He would beg his
parents to take him to the mall,
so he could create another of the
shop’s custom stuffed animals.
But then, one day, Brock saw a commercial for
Shriners Children’s Hospital on TV and realized
that those kids, unlike himself, couldn’t just go
to the mall and build their own bear. “It made
me really sad,” he recalls.
To his parents’ surprise, Brock began
donating his creations to the hospital. And it
didn’t stop there. The next thing they knew, their
son was collecting donations, so he could build
even more bears with the pie-in-the-sky goal of
making sure every child at Shriners had a bear of
their very own.
At one point, Brock had up to 50 bears in his
parents’ room and has now donated over 100
bears to the hospital (to donate, visit gofundme.
com/buildabears-for-shriners). A few friends have
joined him in his mission as well. They hope to
someday bring the bear-making service to the
hospital so the children there can assemble the
bears themselves. “I just want the kids to be happy
and have a good childhood,” Brock insists, and his
mom, Brenda, couldn’t be prouder. “He has a huge
heart,” she shares. “He made me think that we
should be doing a lot more for our community. If
he can do it, we can do it, too.”
—Amber Foster
favorites
Escape
Hawaii
Guilty pleasure
Watching Star Wars
Meal in town
Chando’s Tacos
Favorite memory
When we got our dog Ares
Musician/band
Ed Sheeran
Annual event
My birthday
Saying
“I am your father!”
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community who makes a difference
or is particularly interesting that we
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where they live, and why they should be
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photos by DANTE FONTANA