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After tragedy struck UVU’s campus, cute dogs provided comfort and healing to affected students.
Small Lake City
Although he’d had heart surgery only three days before he got the call from Utah Valley University’s wellness program—following Charlie Kirk’s death—Mike Carlson knew what he had to do. After all, when folks discovered that Carlson—the CEO of Golden Healers, a non-profit dog therapy organization—needed lifesaving surgery, they’d raised $45,000 to defray the cost.
Now, Carlson said, it was his turn to bring a sense of calm and security to students on the campus where the unspeakable tragedy had occurred.
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