Today on Good Morning Wake County, we’ve got four stories that prove hope can grow anywhere — even in the heat, in the dirt, or behind prison walls.

🏡 First up, we visit Sanford Correctional Center, where a landscaping business born from barbed wire is now inspiring inmates through the Inmates to Entrepreneurs program, founded right here in Holly Springs. You’ll hear what it takes to start over from Brandon Lowery, Charles McQuaig, and voices inside the prison walls.

☀️ Then we head to Wake County Health & Human Services on Bland Road, where the Cool for Wake program is racing to keep people safe as summer heat rolls in. We share a personal reflection from Steve’s time as a search and rescue pilot with the Wake Forest Fire Department, and how you can help at wake.gov/coolforwake.

🌱 Next, we’re headed to Simple Gifts Community Garden in Apex — now thriving again at 3109 Tingen Road, thanks to the YMCA of the Triangle. After losing their original land, they’ve replanted their mission and are hosting an open house with the South Wake Conservationists.

👶 And finally — a bonus story we couldn’t leave out: Cary may soon be home to North Carolina’s first-ever stand-alone children’s hospital. Backed by land from Reedy Creek Investments and support from Governor Josh Stein, this project could bring world-class pediatric care to families across the Triangle.

Whether it’s inmates finding purpose, neighbors beating the heat, volunteers rebuilding from scratch, or hospitals rising from hope, today’s episode proves that good things take root in Wake County.

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