— Grocery store clerk Shelia Newton was checking out a customer at Hometown Grocery in Athens on Monday, when a tall, middle-age gentleman stepped up beside the woman in line and said, ”I’m your secret Santa today.”
The generous stranger was at the South Jefferson Street store to cover the woman’s $84 grocery tab.
“He swiped his card through the card reader and before the receipt even came out, he was gone,” Newton said. “I was stunned. Someone coming up and paying for someone’s groceries. Stuff like that doesn’t happen that much anymore.”
Newton and the customer were speechless.
“We just looked at each other,” Newton said. “She thought I knew him and I thought she knew him. I just told her that her groceries were paid for.”
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
School Now Allows Pledge of Allegiance Without Permission Slip
BROOKLINE (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A Brookline school is now saying permission slips won’t be necessary for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
School sends home permission slips for Pledge of Allegiance: MyFoxBOSTON.com
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Thief Returns Stolen Baby Jesus - The Triad News Story - WXII The Triad
Thief Returns Stolen Baby Jesus - The Triad News Story - WXII The Triad
It looks like a repentant heart can be found. A thief who took baby Jesus and some lawn equipment returned the nativity Jesus.
It looks like a repentant heart can be found. A thief who took baby Jesus and some lawn equipment returned the nativity Jesus.
Monday, December 20, 2010
11-year-old Helps Other Kids Get Toys For Christmas
He and his family were returning home from a shopping trip to the mall when they saw a homeless woman, her two children, a man and his dog under a bridge. Their clothes were tattered and torn, and they had all their belongings in a shopping cart.
"What will happen at Christmas?" Stephen asked his mother. "Will they get any toys?"
Probably not, his mom told him.
"I was sad about that," says Stephen, now 11 and a sixth-grader. So he went home and searched the house for spare change.
He collected $35, divided the money into four plastic baggies, and then his family drove him back to the bridge, where he gave one bag of money to each of the four people.
"They were so thankful," he recalls. "They said, 'God bless you.' The woman cried."
For the past seven years, the family has hosted an annual Christmas party with guests bringing new toys, which the family then gives to the Salvation Army to distribute.
The guest list at the parties includes their friends, all the students in Stephen's grade, as well as the classmates of his siblings.
Last year, they collected 300 to 350 toys and $3,500. This year, they want to break their own record and collect 500 toys.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Earth Gone Wild-2010 The Year of the Most Crazy Natural Disasters
Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 - the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined.
And we have ourselves to blame most of the time, scientists and disaster experts say.
Through Nov. 30, nearly 260,000 people died in natural disasters in 2010, compared to 15,000 in 2009, according to Swiss Re. The World Health Organization, which hasn't updated its figures past Sept. 30, is just shy of 250,000. By comparison, deaths from terrorism from 1968 to 2009 were less than 115,000, according to reports by the U.S. State Department and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The last year in which natural disasters were this deadly was 1983 because of an Ethiopian drought and famine, according to WHO. Swiss Re calls it the deadliest since 1976.
The charity Oxfam says 21,000 of this year's disaster deaths are weather related.
LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE
And we have ourselves to blame most of the time, scientists and disaster experts say.
Through Nov. 30, nearly 260,000 people died in natural disasters in 2010, compared to 15,000 in 2009, according to Swiss Re. The World Health Organization, which hasn't updated its figures past Sept. 30, is just shy of 250,000. By comparison, deaths from terrorism from 1968 to 2009 were less than 115,000, according to reports by the U.S. State Department and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The last year in which natural disasters were this deadly was 1983 because of an Ethiopian drought and famine, according to WHO. Swiss Re calls it the deadliest since 1976.
The charity Oxfam says 21,000 of this year's disaster deaths are weather related.
LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Saturday, December 18, 2010
9yr old Boy Helps Homeless With His Gift of Music
Link to VIDEOA Little Boy's Mission to Help the Homeless with the Gift of Music
"I was thinking about how terrible it would be to be cold or hungry or homeless," Brien said. "Then, my guitar teacher was helping me make CD's, so I thought I could raise money by selling my CD's to make money for the mission."
"Treat people the way you want to be treated." That's why he says he's doing this.
"I was thinking about how terrible it would be to be cold or hungry or homeless," Brien said. "Then, my guitar teacher was helping me make CD's, so I thought I could raise money by selling my CD's to make money for the mission."
"Treat people the way you want to be treated." That's why he says he's doing this.
Friday, December 17, 2010
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