When Emmett Township Public Safety Officer Ben Hall pulled over a woman for a traffic violation, he saw that her 5-year-old son wasn’t sitting in a booster seat, which he absolutely should have been in. Instead of giving Alexis DeLorenzo a ticket, Hall drove promptly over to Walmart, given that DeLorenzo said she knew the …
Most pay-it-forward lines in which someone pays for the order behind them don’t last more than a few people, if even that. But after a woman at a Starbucks in St. Petersburg, Fla., paid for her iced coffee and the caramel macchiato a customer behind her ordered, the line continued for a whopping 378 people. …
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Vern Jones was standing triumphantly at the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro with his family, wishing he could buy a T-shirt or some other kind of gear to mark the accomplishment. That was hard to come by in Tanzania, Africa, where the mountain resides, so he decided to make a clothing line himself. One wrinkle, though: …
I am the director of a nonprofit organization that cares for homeless and runaway teenagers and young adults in Burlington, Vermont. On one beautiful Autumn day, I had family in town who were visiting, so I took the day off and we spent the afternoon walking down the main pedestrian walkway, Church Street, having lunch …
My husband and I had a rough first week of 2016. At the end of the week, “Tim” entered. I went to pick up our usual Friday night date food. There was a gentleman waiting in line and an elderly couple ahead of him. Once they were done ordering he politely said I could go …
It is early Sunday morning and my friend and I are about to enter Starbucks to grab a coffee before our run. We enter right before a perfectly dressed business lady with a very kind smile. Gathering that she is probably on her way to work, I decided to tell her to get in front …
One summer I was really having a tough time. My husband had left me, I was broke, and diagnosed with a serious medical condition. While I had a job, I was barely making ends meet and I didn’t have enough to get the prescription I needed filled. I decided to attend a women’s meeting and …
A complete stranger paid $10,000 so a woman could have a liver operation that she otherwise would not have been able to afford. The donor remains anonymous to this day, but the woman who received the gift is forever grateful. A woman in possession of airline tickets she would no longer be able to use …
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