SANDPOINT — Good things truly are being brought to light for the Carousel of Smiles, thanks to a donation of several hundred lightbulbs by General Electric to the Sandpoint nonprofit.

"We just didn't have it in our budget to even figure out how to buy them," carousel co-founder Reno Hutchison said. "This donation is a such a gift."

The donation is the result of an email by carousel volunteer Ken Keeler who reached out to GE after seeing a notice on a lightbulb box on how to contact the company.

Realizing the carousel would eventually need lights as the original lights burned out or broke, Ken Keeler reached out to GE to find out where the nonprofit could find them in bulk.

While the bulbs could be purchased at local stores, finding enough bulbs to outfit the entire carousel was proving

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