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Mystery person gives $4,000 to students… for them to give away [Video]
Here’s a great story from a friend of mine, Holly Bounds. Great story and a great idea!
It’s not all doom and gloom out there these days. But if you’ve gotta see it to believe it, we’ve got a great example.
While it’s hard to believe when you see the faces in the 4th grade class at Cross Schools, the angel of this story is no where in the picture. And that’s by choice.
“I usually get a lot of ideas that come across my desk and this person just followed through with it and said, “We really want to do this,” Headmistress Shawn Young said.
Angel Anonymous delivered $4,000 worth of 20’s to the students of Cross Schools and set some guidelines. Each student was to get a bill and donate it to a person or charity in need, with no name attached, just as they had received it.
“There’s a lot of people in need, and we’re in a recession right now and they’re really not doing too well- and it would make them feel happy,” nine-year-old Jackson Moore said.
The whole idea: teaching kids invaluable lessons about the gift of giving.
“Well, it felt good because I’ve always wanted to do something for other people,” Savannah Young said.
“I was thinking, I’m about to make a difference in someone’s life and I’m about to make someone happy and I’m also going to make me happy by having this warm feeling inside when I give it,” Rebecca Donaldson said.
“You know that someone will receive your gift and either find shelter and food and know that God is helping them,” Stephanie Royer said.
Angel Anonymous, we think it’s safe to say, “Mission Accomplished!”
But deep down, some of these kids are itching to talk to you.
“I would thank them so much and try to think of some way to repay them and think of something to give them,” nine-year-old Derrick Dees said.
But we know, this is the only reward you wanted.
“Money is not everything. But what comes from your heart is best,” Dees added.
And by the way, Angel Anonymous, thanks for reminding the rest of us, too.
The school stamped each dollar bill with a website address that will lead anyone who gets the bill to the story of Angel Anonymous. The hope is that the message about the gift of giving will continue to spread.
Read more and watch this great story: Anonymous Angel Teaches Cross Schools Gift of Giving
Acts of kindness move auctioneer to tears
Andy Kaye of Kaye’s Auctions was literally brought to tears yesterday talking about the kindness of some of the good hearts.
The contents of a storage locker (being sold off due to unpaid storage fees) were on the block when the little boy whose toys were in the lot (about three years old, there with his mom) asked Andy if he could “have some of my toys”.
“Sure,” says Andy, seen here in picture No. 1. “Go ahead.”
The little guy gathered a pile of toys, then when the auction got underway, a 20-year regular of Kaye’s, Karen, bought a couple of boxes, immediately donating them back to the family.
Other bidders followed suit, till at the end of the sale mom and her little guy had a fair amount of their stuff back.
“I’ve been in this business a long time,” says Andy, “and I have to tell you, that was really something. The little guy’s mom certainly had tears in her eyes.”
Read more: Can’t put a price on this
Photo: Flikr user spectrus38
Company uses “smiley faces” to create good economic times [Video]
When you see the A-Nete-Idea truck coming your way early in the morning, you know you are going to receive a smile.
“Grinners are winners, we think people are sad, sad people have no confidence, happy people go out and buy, sad people go home and hide,” Nita Clark of A-Nete-Idea said.
Every Tuesday, they donate their smiley face sign to different companies in Stark County to help spur the economy.
“Happy people go out and buy, sad people go home and hide,” Clark said. “We are going back to the same business over and over because they enjoy it so much and their clients enjoy it so much.”
They also pass out smiley buttons to the company employees to wear so they feel happier and the customers they see all day will also receive a smile.
“Bad times happen, good times are created, so I know we are making good times for people. And growing up, I realized happy times are the glue that get you through the bad times, so now I get to make a lot of glue for people,” Clark said.
Come evening, they take down their sign and put it away until next Tuesday when it comes out again to make a difference.
Read more, watch this story and smile: Stark County company using smiles to create good economic times
Smiley, happy faces spotted floating in the air
An artist tried to lift the February gloom by releasing more than 2,000 pink smiley faces into the air over London.
The Happy Cloud installation filled the air outside the Tate Modern gallery with the faces, made from helium, soap and vegetable dye.
The artist, 28-year-old Stuart Semple, said he wanted to create something that would cheer people up.
“I’ve had enough of the doom and gloom in the air and I wanted to show something completely positive floating up in the sky,” he said.
“This was the most straightforward way I could think of to literally contribute something happy to the atmosphere.”
“I am hoping it might put a smile on a few people’s faces as they go through their day.”
