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The Brightwater Kindness Gazette

“We fix pipes for a living. We look after the neighborhood for free.”
New Brighton, MN · brightwaterplumbing.com ★ Certified Kindness Manufacturer Issue No. 1
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Kindness in Action

People & partners we’re grateful for
D
Dani R.
Dispatcher

Quietly waived the after-hours fee for an elderly customer three winters running. She treats every caller like a neighbor, not a ticket.

V
Valley Supply Co.
Our parts supplier

Fronts us materials, no questions asked, whenever we take on a repair somebody can’t pay for. We couldn’t do the free jobs without them.

R
Rosa & the diner crew
Neighbors on 7th

Keep the coffee on for our techs on the cold early calls, and point us toward folks who need help. A company is only as kind as the street it sits on.

Where we’re headed

“A New Brighton where no neighbor sits in a cold house waiting on a repair they can’t afford — because someone on our crew already heard about it and showed up.”

The whole crew adopts the food shelf

Spring 2026

Stocked the shelf down the street every Friday all season. Nobody was asked. Everybody showed up.

How kindness shows up in our work

“Listening before fixing. Anyone can swap a valve. The kindness is in hearing what someone’s really worried about first.”

Acts of Kindness

A running log — on the clock & off
Covered a veteran’s emergency repair, start to finish, no invoice.
Tue · the company
Marcus stayed late to fix a single mom’s heat at no charge. Told no one.
Wed · Marcus, on his own time
Donated the old work van to the youth center’s tool program.
Thu · the company
Dani coached the middle-school robotics team after hours all spring.
Ongoing · Dani, volunteering

Worth keeping

“They fixed my mom’s water heater the day before Thanksgiving and wouldn’t take a dime.” — a neighbor, in our guestbook

“Best part of the job isn’t the plumbing. It’s knowing the street looks out for each other.” — Marcus

One of many workplaces lighting up across the map. Every act here feeds the larger record of the civilization.