ALI BORGEN
Ali Borgen ‘Smile Wide’ music scholarship established 
The family of Ali Borgen has established a scholarship with the Grand Forks Foundation for Education to benefit students in Grand Cities Children’s Choir, the Summer Performing Arts program or involved in private music lessons.
By Herald Staff Report , March 16, 2012
Smile wide: Friends, strangers rally for Ali and all kids facing cancer (VIDEO)
VIDEO: Watch at bottom of article.Ali was Farrah Heitkamp’s friend, and Farrah, 15, told her friend’s story today to schoolmates at Dakota Prairie High School in Petersburg, near where Ali’s family had lived the first years of her life, before the family moved to Grand Forks. Tuesday was the one-year anniversary of Ali Borgen’s death.
By Chuck Haga , January 25, 2012
In GF, 'Smile Wide Day' honors Ali Borgen
Today is “Smile Wide Day” in Grand Forks in honor of Ali Borgen, the spirited 14-year-old girl who fought against leukemia until her death on Jan. 24. Today would have been her 15th birthday.
By Chuck Haga , September 05, 2011
Ali Borgen gets the sendoff she asked for
At the end of the memorial service, the balloons were given to scores of children who had come to say goodbye to Ali Borgen. Many of the children smiled and laughed as they left the sanctuary, their balloons alive and tugging at the strings they held in their hands.
By Chuck Haga , January 30, 2011
OBITUARY: Alena 'Ali' Borgen
Alena "Ali" Borgen, 14, of Grand Forks, ND died Monday, January 24, 2011, in her home surrounded by her family.
January 27, 2011
Ali Borgen's long, spirited fight with leukemia ends
As she fought for her life, Ali Borgen said leukemia might take her body but she would even then continue to fight childhood cancer, as her spirit and example might inspire others to campaign against the disease. Borgen died early Monday.
By Chuck Haga , January 24, 2011
Hundreds turn out for Ali’s celebration
Transferring from limo to wheelchair, Ali Borgen was accompanied down a red carpet at the Ramada Inn by her mother, Karen, glamorous in a pink feather boa, and her father, Rich, head painted swamp green and studded with bolts: a more than passable Shrek.
By Chuck Haga , January 10, 2011
'Overwhelming' response to Ali Borgen silent auction
Artwork, motel packages, handmade jewelry, Fighting Sioux hockey tickets — more than 50 donated items will be auctioned off Sunday to benefit childhood cancer research at Ali Borgen’s “Celebration of a Lifetime.”
By Chuck Haga , January 07, 2011
A get-together for Ali Borgen
Ali is coming home, and she wants a party.It’s not to say goodbye, though it appears that day may soon be here. Spunky as ever, Ali wants to celebrate.
By Chuck Haga , January 04, 2011
Ali’s dream
Through years of fear and pain, a Grand Forks child longs to be 'a normal kid'Ali Borgen was 10 when doctors, trying to determine what was causing her vertebra compression fractures and excruciating back pain, finally made the diagnosis: high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
By Chuck Haga , December 04, 2010
A cluster of questions
A woman who has made awareness of childhood leukemia her life’s passion wants state and national health authorities to investigate a possible “cancer cluster” in Grand Forks County. Kristen Abner has identified at least nine cases of children diagnosed in the past three years with leukemia, including seven in the city of Grand Forks.
By Chuck Haga , October 03, 2009
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