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Posted by geri
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Thursday, 08 June 2006 |
The more we hear of others doing the right thing, the more we are apt
to do it ourselves when faced with the same opportunity...
Teresa Stiles saw a lockbox,
which she didn't know contained about $40,000, fall off a Brinks truck.
Nobody seemed to see what happened and no one was responding. So,
Stiles grabbed the box and nervously drove straight to the police.
Teresa can't believe all the hubbub over her act of honesty. She was
just trying to protect someone's money. “If that was me and my deposit
got lost, I'd be upset. That's all I was thinking about, people's money
being in that box and it not being where it's supposed to be." (photo and details at KOTV.com)
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Posted by geri
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Wednesday, 31 May 2006 |
 I will not be the only one with tears running down my face after some of you read this story.
Katrina's Piano Fund has delivered hundreds of replacement
instruments -- including more than 40 pianos -- to regional New Orleans musicians who lost everything in the
huricane.
Steve Burtchaell, a professional musician, mourned his family's loss of
a Steinway baby grand piano. He, like everybody else, had to put his
instrument at the bottom of a mile-long list of priorities and realized it was
probably never going to be replaced.
But after hearing of the Fund, Steve became the first applicant to request a piano.
On April 21, two tractor trailers pulled up to the meeting hall of
Corpus Christi Catholic Church on St. Bernard Avenue and Steve was
given
first choice of the 41 pianos delivered.
"We had just one baby grand, donated by Jennifer Wydra of South Orange,
NJ," recalls one of the founders of the Fund. . .
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Read more... [Katrina's Piano Fund Replaces Instruments Lost in Flooding, Restores Musicians]
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Posted by DSJohnson
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Tuesday, 30 May 2006 |
A man in Handford England rose from what doctors feared would be his
deathbed in order to bring joy to his daughter on her wedding
day. Brian Paolo, who suffers from emphysema, was determined to
give his daughter away at her wedding, despite his life-threatening
illness.
"I didn't think I would make it... the doctors had given up on me.
I've no immune system and my lungs are badly damaged. It was touch and
go whether I would make it . But I pulled through with a bit of
determination." (Ananova)
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Posted by geri
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Friday, 26 May 2006 |
From the Oregonian
comes this Memorial Day tribute to an American soldier who gets a kick
out of bringing gifts to the kids in Iraq. Anne Taylor of Lake Oswego
writes this charming ode to her 25 year old grandson, Sgt. Joe Coon of
the Oregon National Guard: 
Sometimes "Joe's kids" get candy. Other times it may be toothbrushes
and toothpaste, Beanie Babies, stuffed animals or hair ornaments. But
Joe always has something for them from his stash of goodies, supplied
by family and friends... Joe
was so moved by the bare feet he saw in Iraq, he urged his friends to
send shoes for the children. The result was 1,200 pairs of shoes and
300 pounds of clothing sent to Iraq in 54 large boxes, inundating the
post office.
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Posted by geri
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Monday, 22 May 2006 |
 Some
folks in San Francisco decided there was not enough green space
downtown so they "leased" the area provided by a parking meter, usually reserved for cars,
to created a mini-park for a day. Pedestrians lounged on the park
bench under a temporary tree. The grass invited shoes to come off. No authority interfered at all. Calling
themselves the Rebar group, John Bela and Matthew Passmore write on
their website that creating the Park(ing) space was just their way of
"temporarily improving the quality of urban human habitat -- at least
until
the meter ran out." By their calculations, they provided an additional
24,000 square-foot-minutes of public open space that Wednesday
afternoon. Check out the Park(ing) Space photos showing the project from installation to expiration.
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