Some weeks the news feels heavy. This week brought a few stories worth sitting down with as a family: a city that waited more than fifty years for a championship, the passing of a woman who spent her life speaking up for farmworkers, teenagers who covered a football field with groceries, and scientists who built a window into the earliest days of the universe.
1. The Milwaukee Brewers win their first World Series
On Wednesday, October 28, the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. That win gave Milwaukee the World Series, and it was the first championship in the team’s history.
The Brewers were founded in 1969. According to Reuters, this was only their second trip to the World Series, and their first in 44 years. Their only earlier appearance, in 1982, ended in a loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
Pitcher Jacob Misiorowski threw 5-2/3 scoreless innings in the clinching game. Catcher William Contreras, who had eight hits and four runs batted in across the five games, was named World Series MVP.
Longtime outfielder Christian Yelich spoke for a lot of fans in Wisconsin: “I know the city has waited a long, long time for this and we’re so happy to bring it back to them.”
2. Dolores Huerta, champion for farmworkers, dies at 96
Dolores Huerta, the labor organizer and civil rights activist, died on Wednesday, October 28, at her home. She was 96. The Associated Press reported that her family announced the news through her foundation, and that she died of cancer at her home in Bakersfield, California.
With César Chávez, Huerta helped found what became the United Farm Workers of America, a union that worked to improve life for the people who pick the fruits and vegetables on our tables. She was a key leader and negotiator for many years.
She also gave the movement its famous rallying cry, “Sí, se puede!”, which the AP translates as “Yes, it can be done.” In 2012 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Huerta had 13 children, according to the AP. Her son Emilio Huerta said of her union work, “That took a lot of guts.” Tributes to her poured in throughout the week.
3. Teenagers fill a football field with food for New Jersey families
On Sunday, October 25, hundreds of students from across Monmouth County, New Jersey, brought food donations to the Howell High School football field for the second annual 100 Yard Food Drive Challenge. It was organized by Dermer Dreams, a nonprofit started by Dan and Alyse Dermer.
News 12 New Jersey reported that each student leader received 100 donation bags and had to plan how to fill them. Volunteers carried the bags from cars and lined them up across all 100 yards of the field. The goal that day was 100,000 pounds of food.
The students went far past it. Good News Network reported on November 1 that more than 250,000 pounds were collected, the largest drive in the nonprofit’s history. The food is going to 30 food banks across the state.
Howell High School principal Jeremy Braverman told News 12: “Kids will step up to the plate. All you got to do is just believe in a kid and great things happen.”
“But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”
Hebrews 13:16 (KJV)
4. Scientists build a new picture of the universe’s first 2 billion years
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have created a computer simulation called “Lumina.” It models how ordinary matter, dark matter and light worked together to form the first stars, galaxies and black holes.
The research was published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. According to the Smithsonian, the simulation used more than 15,000 graphics processors on the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It covers a virtual cube about 1.5 billion light-years on each side, more than 100 times larger than earlier projects like it.
Why does it matter? Telescopes such as James Webb are sending back pictures of very young galaxies. Lead author Oliver Zier explained: “To understand what we are seeing with this telescope, we need to translate our theories into detailed predictions.” Lumina gives scientists those predictions to check against what they see.
For families, it is a lovely reminder that the more we learn about creation, the bigger and more wonderful it looks.
The thread that ties it together
A team that kept trying for decades. A woman who believed change was possible. Young people who decided their neighbors would not go hungry. Scientists patiently asking questions about the beginning of everything. None of these stories happened quickly, and none happened alone.
Through every storm, we rise together.
Which of this week’s stories would you share at your dinner table, and why?
Sources: Reuters via Honolulu Star-Advertiser, “Milwaukee Brewers beat Tampa Bay Rays for first World Series title” (Oct 28, 2026); Spectrum News 1, “Milwaukee Brewers win World Series” (Oct 28, 2026); AP via Arizona’s Family, “Dolores Huerta, pioneering labor organizer and civil rights icon, dies at 96” (Oct 28, 2026); AP via ITV News, “Dolores Huerta, influential labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon, dies at 96” (Oct 28, 2026); News 12 New Jersey, “Monmouth County students fill Howell High School football field with food donations” (Oct 25, 2026); Good News Network, “High School Fills Entire Football Field With Groceries to Replenish New Jersey Food Banks” (Nov 1, 2026); ScienceDaily, “Smithsonian scientists recreated the universe’s first 2 billion years” (Oct 27, 2026); Open Access Government, “Smithsonian scientists launch Lumina simulation to model early universe” (Oct 26, 2026); KJV Hebrews 13:16
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