Angel Zamora, age 5, is a Make-A-Wish recipient and Wilmington resident. He received his Wish to be a police officer for a day with the help of the New Castle County Police Department. There was a full police escort for Angel and his family both to and from the Wish location.

Angel and his family arrived at Carousel Park that morning and upon arrival, Angel received a custom-made police uniform and had a special swearing-in ceremony naming him as their newest Captain.

An inoperable brain tumor, hasn't stopped Angel's love of all things police, and dreams of being a police officer when he grows up. So, when Wish Granter volunteers asked Angel what his one true Wish was-he knew the answer right away and the magic of Make-A-Wish began to unfold.

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​Last year, a week before Thanksgiving, Marcia Stiefel was backing out of her driveway in Bismarck, N.D., when her left side went weak. “I noticed I didn’t have peripheral vision,” she says. And after she overshot the drive and hit a fence, twice, she asked her son to drive her to the hospital.

She thought she’d had a stroke, but an MRI revealed something else: a brain tumor called glioblastoma the size of a golf ball. Her doctors wanted to move quickly–her cancer was already Stage IV–so instead of celebrating the holiday cooking for the 10 people she was expecting, including her two sons and their families, Stiefel spent it at the hospital recovering from surgery and preparing for the dual onslaughts of radiation and chemotherapy.

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