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Vikings help with gift of hearing

Several Vikings players helped Starkey give the gift of hearing to about 60 people on Tuesday.

The Starkey Hearing Foundation and the Minnesota Vikings teamed together on Tuesday to put on their annual holiday hearing mission. The two sides teamed together to help fit local patients with complimentary, customized, state-of-the-art digital hearing devices.

The two sides have been building a partnership together for years that is extending further than just business, or at least that is how Starkey co-founder Tani Austin sees it.

“They become part of our family,” she said. “It really is a Vikings and a Starkey family and a community family.