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Baack · **^ Top** #11 10.19.2009

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Our affiliate KGO in San Francisco is covering this story out of Antioch, California.
A 2 year old over the weekend pressed on a screen in a window in his kitchen and fell out. He descended 3 stories landing on concrete. Amazingly he is ok. The hospital says he bruised his lung but is fine

The Antioch Fire Department says the boy was checked out of Children's Hospital and suffered only a bruised lung and a bump on his head. Witnesses at the scene said the child was actually conscious and it appears he will survive this giant fall without needing surgery.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sec...bay&id=7071115

Texas-Nana · **^ Top** #12 10.19.2009

Oh wow! What a miracle

Baack · **^ Top** #13 11.27.2009

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Something about the way the homeless people in Bienville Square asked for leftovers from the Gumbo Cook Off last May touched the heart of 13-year-old Marina McKinley.

That incident started her family on the path to feeding 100 hungry souls every Sunday afternoon in Bienville Square. They’ve done it for the past four months.

“I looked at them and thought that maybe they didn’t have the means to get a job; maybe they didn’t have money for a resume or clothes for an interview,” said Marina, an eighth-grade student at Saraland Middle School.

“I thought about how they felt, being hungry and without money for a meal,” she said.

On the way home, she asked her parents, Mike and Lori McKinley, whether there might be some way they could help.

“One Meal: Feeding the Homeless, One Meal at a Time,” was born. It is a nonprofit organization that ensures that those who are hungry can depend on one solid meal a week.

McKinley said the 1,600-plus meals the family, including daughter Makayla, a fourth-grader, has served so far have been provided mainly through donations of food, water, paper products and cash.

http://blog.al.com/pr-community-news...very_week.html

RickG · **^ Top** #14 11.27.2009

The Good News thread is almost a year old and has only 2 pages with no trucking related posts .

Baack · **^ Top** #15 11.30.2009

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He was a young boy living in Iraq when he caught the eye of a major in the Michigan Army National Guard.
The boy's mother took off his cap and exposed his disfigured head

"Will you save me?" the boy, then 11, said to Maj. David Howell.
Five months later, Howell got Mohammed a visa, a passport and a commitment from surgeons at Michigan State University that they would help the boy. Mohammed has since received thousands of dollars in free medical care, giving him a lot to be thankful for during his first Thanksgiving in America.
His story is one of both the gratefulness of a boy and the remarkable commitment of a Michigan National Guardsman, who went off to fight a war and ended up repaying a debt and freeing a child from wounds of his youth. It is also about a boy who has made others feel blessed to have joined his journey.
"Mohammed asked me in plain English, 'Will you save me?' " said Howell, who lives in Grand Ledge and now works as a physician assistant for Flint cardiologists. "I felt an obligation as an American to do something for this family. If I was going to try to do something (for any family), this was it."
Howell, 55, was on a mission to protect a gathering of Iraqi women and children last November in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, when he first saw Mohammed. The women, widows of Iraqi policemen, were collecting government support.

http://detnews.com/article/20091126/...dier-who-cared

Baack · **^ Top** #16 12.14.2009

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BANGOR, Maine — Author Stephen King and his wife are donating money so 150 soldiers from the Maine Army National Guard can come home for the holidays.
King and his wife, Tabitha, who live in Bangor, are paying $13,000 toward the cost of two bus trips so that members of the 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Unit can travel from Camp Atterbury in Indiana to Maine for Christmas

. The soldiers left Maine last week for training at Camp Atterbury. They are scheduled to depart for Afghanistan in January.
Julie Eugley, one of King's personal assistants, told the Bangor Daily News that the Kings were approached about giving $13,000.
But Stephen King

thought the number 13 was a bit unlucky, so the couple pitched in $12,999 instead. Eugley chipped in $1 to make for an even $13,000.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews

Baack · **^ Top** #17 12.14.2009

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PHILADELPHIA - It played like a scene from a holiday

movie — a mystery couple, who didn’t leave their names or numbers, walked into a restaurant, finished their meal and then set off a chain reaction of generosity that lasted for hours.
That’s just what employees at the Aramingo Diner in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia said a man and a woman did during their breakfast shift Saturday morning.
“It was magical. I had tears in my eyes because it never happened before. I’ve been here for 10 years, and I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Lynn Willard, a waitress.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34420892...ing/?GT1=43001

Baack · **^ Top** #18 12.16.2009

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WEST NEWTON, Pa. -- Someone mailed an envelope filled with money to a western Pennsylvania bank that was robbed earlier this month, and the FBI suspects it was either the repentant robber or an acquaintance of his.

Special Agent Jeff Killeen says the returned money doesn't cancel out the crime that was committed Dec. 9 at the PNC Bank in West Newton, a tiny borough about 20 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

The FBI won't say how much the robber took, but say the money in the envelope was about 80 percent of the amount stolen. It was separated into stacks of $5s, $10s, $20s and $100s.

The FBI announced the mailing on Tuesday and says it is checking the package for fingerprints and other clues. They believe the robber is local because he was wearing a yellow Pittsburgh Steelers T-shirt.

http://www.wisn.com/money/21981337/detail.html

Baack · **^ Top** #19 12.17.2009

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North Carolina boy finds handbag on riverbank; gives $40 of reward to mom
GREENSBORO, N.C. - An 11-year-old North Carolina boy has found and returned a stolen purse

with nearly $2,000 inside.
The News & Record of Greensboro reported Wednesday that Edward Myers and his siblings were helping neighbors plant trees

in a Greensboro park when he spotted a purse on the creek bank. The Boy Scout and his mother called the police, and the purse's owner showed up to collect.
The owner told police her car was broken into on Thanksgiving. Police said the thief took $30 out of the main billfold but missed $1,900 in another compartment before flinging the purse into the creek.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34455093...rld/?gt1=43001

luvmyhubby · **^ Top** #20 12.17.2009

nice to know there are still good kids in the world.....

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