 To celebrate our 20th anniversary of Lakeland News, we are taking a look back at some of the memorable stories that we've covered over the years. We're calling it 20 for 20. 20 stories in all, one for each of the 20 years we have been on the air with Lakeland News. One of the things we really enjoy doing on our newscast is highlighting the extraordinary things people in our community are doing. Just before Christmas in 2016, our Haiti Clotter brought us a look at the Dudley family who lives near Bemidji. Over the years, the Dudleys have adopted numerous special needs children from the United States foster care system. This is what a typical day looks like for the Dudleys, a house full of life. There are 10 kids playing around or receiving medical treatment. You can say they have a full house. For us, it just works better to have only the medical children. Kent and Chantel Dudley started adopting children with serious medical conditions and haven't looked back ever since. They blended their own family of seven children, have adopted six, and four are pending adoption. That brings them a total of 17 children. The Dudleys have told themselves we didn't break these children, we're trying to make them better. That's what they're doing one child at a time. Their message is simple. These children aren't a burden. They're miracle babies and deserve to be loved. Usually if you ask most of our kids that can talk, they'll just say, my mama couldn't take care of me. Or there was an accident and mama couldn't take care of me. Now, since that story aired, the Dudleys have adopted four more children who they have been taking care of through medical foster care. Chantel tells us they were also approached by a production company in Hollywood to produce a show for their family on the TLC network. The Dudleys have since decided as a family not to proceed with the idea of the show. Now, the reporter of that story, Hady Clodder, who has recently worked for us, has been recently working with KQDS in Duluth, and you can watch that entire story on our website at lptb.org tomorrow. And next Wednesday, we near the end of our 20 for 20 series at the Look Back from a Story from 2017. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.