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Love For the Elderly: Teen Boy Sends Letters to Seniors

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Jul 24, 2014

13-year old Jacob Cramer wants to cheer up lonely elderly people and he’s chosen an old-fashioned way of doing it. He is writing letters.

Since July 2013, Jacob has recruited friends, and even organizations, to help compose personal letters for delivery to senior centers. So far, strangers have reached out in friendship from all over the world; some close to the Cleveland suburbs where the effort began and some as far away as Europe and Asia.

The enthusiastic response for his nonprofit group, Love For The Elderly, inspired him to launch a website and social media campaign to spur more letter writing.

”So many elderly citizens in our nation have no one to care for them, no one to look after them, no one to love them,” says Jacob. “We are here to change that.”

To help out, you can send a letter or card to the postal address below. They also have an online submission form. (Use this when writing from another country.) If mailing your own personal card or letter, please make your handwriting legible so the seniors can read it. Typing is a good option too.
Send to:
Love For The Elderly
42 Pepper Creek Dr.
Pepper Pike, OH 44124

(LEARN more at lovefortheelderly.cf)

84-Year-old Neighbor Rescues Dog From Pack of Coyotes

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Jul 24, 2014

84-year-old Dolores “Dolly” Jefferson was getting a cup of coffee, when she heard a “commotion” in her backyard, the Illinois Daily Herald reported. When she looked outside she saw a one-hundred-pound coyote nose to nose with her neighbor’s small dog, Roxie. Soon there were five coyotes in the yard.

With the wild animals poised to pounce, the octogenarian sprung into action.

“I ran outside screaming as loud as I could and shooed the coyotes away.”

(WATCH the video from NBC or READ the story from the Yahoo News)

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For Every Bottle, This Recycling Machine Dispenses Dog Food for Strays

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Jul 23, 2014

In Istanbul, Turkey, where thousands of stray dogs live on the city streets, a new vending machine aims to dispense foods for these animals while making a dent in the recycling problem at the same time.

Earlier this month the Turkish design company, Pugedon, unveiled the dog-friendly device on an urban sidewalk hoping to increase the recycling of plastic bottles, saving them from the landfill.

Pedestrians can empty their bottles into the machine, which can filter and dispense the water for the local dogs. Each time a plastic bottle is pushed through an opening in the front, a fixed amount of dog food trickles out at the bottom, next to the water.

The company says the dog food costs are covered by the plastic that is recovered.

SOURCE: Zie.nl – Story tip from Holly S.

Grandparent on a Mission Has Changed Lives in 950 Families

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Jul 23, 2014

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I’m not really sure what the average 70 year-old man does every day. . .

Play cards?

Watch TV?

Enjoy retirement?

Carl Blum started a nonprofit to help veterans and their families. It has changed more than 950 lives. An amazing man, who shows you can always make a difference.

(READ the story from BradAronson.com)

Police Officer Pays Out of His Own Pocket to Help Family in Need

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Jul 22, 2014

A news tip called into KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon brought to light a story of kindness and generosity by a local police officer.

Officer Carlos Ibarra says he deals with a lot of homeless people who could use help, but usually it is just a husband and wife and a kid or two at the most. This dad and seven kids were living in a van.

When none of the local shelters answered their phones on the weekend, he put them up in a hotel and paid the $70 fee from his own pocket. He went and got them a box of food too.

(WATCH the video below, or READ the story from WVEC.com)

Story tip from Stacey Evans

Photo of the Day – Prince George Turns One

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Jul 22, 2014

The British royal family released official photos to celebrate Prince George’s first birthday, today, July 22. He is now walking and visiting museums, seen here enjoying the Sensational Butterflies exhibit at the Natural History Museum.

A family gathering will be held at William and Kate’s home with the Queen expected to attend along with Prince Harry and the Middleton family.

Click below to see the photo gallery enlarged.

Presented with a stuffed wombat. (Auspic/Commonwealth of Australia, CC license)

Walking at one, visiting butterfly exhibit (Official birthday photo)

Dog Walks 4 Miles Every Night To Feed Hungry Friends

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Jul 21, 2014

Lilica was abandoned at a junkyard in San Carlos, Brazil. Instead of becoming heartless and homeless, the dog became beloved by the resident woman and her children, who responded to Lilica’s positive attitude, and willingness to risk her life for other animals.

After she bore eight pups (which were later adopted), Lilica began to search for food at night, walking four miles each way. She found a caring, compassionate school teacher who became accustomed to feeding the dog every night outside her home.

The woman, who feels she has made a special pact with the dog, always ties up the bag of food after Lilica is finished, so she can carry the food back across busy roads, to provide for the other animals in the poor neighborhood.

WATCH the beautiful story from 2013 below…

Miss Idaho Proudly Displays Insulin Pump During Bikini Walk

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Jul 21, 2014

Everyone can agree that Miss Idaho is beautiful when she takes a stroll down the pageant runway for the swimsuit competition — even with an insulin pump attached to her bikini bottom. Wearing that in public has made her a social media star and role model for children.

“There it is,” Sierra Sandison wrote on Instagram of the pic taken by photographer Susan Hessing during the July 12 Miss Idaho competition.

Since posting the photo of her courageous walk on social media last week, insulin pumps and diabetes devices are now a symbol of community. Sandison has become a new Type 1 hero, with the hashtag #showmeyourpump spurring people to share photos showing off their diabetes devices.

KevW ‏tweeted a photo of his adolescent daughter displaying a hot pink pump, and calling Sierra “a great role model.”

@sierra_anne93 you're a great role model for my 13yo daughter who shows her pump with pride: http://t.co/q6WAELIP4i #showmeyourpump
— Oceantragic / KevW (@OceanTragic) July 19, 2014

(READ the full story from NPR)

Photo copyright Susan Hessing, posted under Fair Use provision

Mexican Gray Wolves Born in Wild for First Time in Decades

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Jul 21, 2014

Conservationists have achieved success in their three-year effort to re-introduce Mexican gray wolves to a habitat where it disappeared three decades ago. Mexican officials have reported that the first known litter of Mexican gray wolves has been born in the wild. According to Mexico’s National Commission for Natural Protected Areas, a team of researchers spotted the wolf pups in the western Sierra Madre Mountains in June.

“This first litter represents an important step in the recovery program, because these will be individuals that have never had contact with human beings, as wolves bred in captivity inevitably do”, said the commission in a statement.

(READ the full story from the Austrian Tribune)

PHOTO credit: Mexican Gray Wolf by JT Palmer (for National Geo, via CC license on Flickr)

Teacher Adopts ‘Holy Terror’ Student No One Else Wanted

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Jul 20, 2014

Cruz Riojas came from a troubled home: He was reportedly beaten by his stepfather, lived in a decrepit one-room lean-to with six other family members, and wore the same clothes to school every day.

His anger flared up in classrooms where he was known as a “holy terror.” Teachers loathed him.

Linda Hooper, a teacher who first encountered Cruz in the early ’80s, when he was 12 years old, came to love him.

He began coming for visits at her home, and eventually stayed.

(READ the story from the USA today)

Photo by Aaron Tait (via Flickr with CC license) – Story tip from Julia Frerichs

‘Hero’ Gardener Chased Runaway Car and Steered it to Safety

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Jul 20, 2014

A resident spotted a car that had suddenly started rolling downhill towards a busy rush hour street in Bradford, England. She yelled to a gardener who chased down the vehicle and steered it into a lamp post through the open window before it reached a busy road.

“It was also lucky I’d turned the hedge cutter off as it came rolling down hill,” said David Robson, 48, who had been pruning shrubs in Heaton and wouldn’t have heard the call of alarm.

(READ the story from the Telegraph and Argus)

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