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Taylor Givens and Collin Kobelja are a match made in heaven. Soon, they will be tying the knot – and it is all thanks to their faulty hearts.
Because he had been born with an abnormal heart, 22-year-old Kobelja found himself at the INOVO Fairfax Hospital of Virginia back in 2011 awaiting his second heart transplant. Hovering on the brink of death while machines were pumping his blood, Kobelja’s odds did not look good.
Despite the average 4-month waiting time for a heart transplant, however, a donor came through and Kobelja was given a new heart just in the nick of time.
Meanwhile in a hospital room a few doors down from Kobelja, 17-year-old Givens was also awaiting a heart transplant. The teenager, who had been diagnosed with an enlarged heart, was hooked up to the same medical apparatus, desperately hoping for the unexpected to happen.
As fate would have it, it did.
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Just before Givens’s heart was due to give out, a donor came through and the teenager underwent a successful transplant on the very same day as Kobelja.
Though the two transplant patients never met, their families would often chat with each other while they were visiting their respective offspring. Upon hearing that there was a fellow young transplant patient staying down the hall, Givens wanted to meet with him and talk about the experience. Kobelja, on the other hand, was too emotionally drained from the stress to feel much like making friends.
But thanks to the friendship that was struck up between their parents, Givens and Kobelja connected on social media.
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Once the they had recovered, Kobelja moved to California and Givens lived in Virginia. They staid in touch, but still did not get the chance to meet until 2016. Givens was recovering from having her tonsils removed at the INOVO hospital while Kobelja was visiting the facilities to chat with his old transplant team. Givens asked the young man to stop by her room and say hi.
The two hit it off immediately.
“Collin left the room and my mom was like, ‘He was flirting with you,’” Givens told TODAY. “We have been emotionally inseparable since.”
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Despite having to overcome several obstacles – such as briefly dating long-distance and Givens undergoing chemotherapy for lymphoma that was caused by her transplant – she and Kobelja are planning on getting married soon.
And Givens says that it is all thanks to their array of health issues.
“All of the things that fell into place for us to be together are wild. Everything has happened exactly as it needed to happen,” said the 24-year-old.
Kobelja, now 30 years old, says: “We have been very lucky together. It all lined up.”
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Most human children are delighted by the sight of snow – and this 2-month-old white rhino is no different.
Zohari is a sweet little pachyderm who was born at the Toronto Zoo on December 24th.
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As a means of entertaining their young resident, the staff made two little piles of snow in his enclosure earlier this week so they could film his joyous reaction.
Zohari, who had never seen snow before, spent the afternoon excitedly sniffing, eating, charging, and rolling around in the powder – and the video footage of his antics is astonishingly cute.
(WATCH the video below)
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For the last 7 months, Trenton Lewis had been diligently waking up in the pre-dawn morning so he could make the 5.5-mile hike to work in time for his 4AM shift. Then, after a long day’s work, he would walk the same distance all the way back home again.
Despite the 21-year-old father never telling any of his co-workers at the UPS facility in Little Rock, Arkansas, the workforce eventually found out about his exhausting commute.
But instead of allowing the dedicated dad to continue hiking to and from work every day, they all pitched in enough money to buy him a new car.
According to WTVR, Lewis’s coworker Kenneth Bryant said: “Everybody who I talked to said yes! The hardest part was reminding them to bring cash.
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“I told the seller what I was doing and who it was for and he said he was willing to work with me on a price,” he added.
Bryant was eventually able to buy a 2006 Saturn Ion for a mere $2,000. The workforce then lured Lewis to the parking lot for a brief “union meeting” last week.
When Lewis joined all of his co-workers in the lot, however, they handed him the keys to the Saturn.
Though Lewis is reportedly described as “stoic”, he could not contain his emotions over the gift.
“For a young person to decide in their mind ‘if I don’t have a ride, if I can’t get a ride then I’ll walk,’” said Bryant, “if a guy can do that, we can pitch in to help.”
Furthermore, Lewis says that the first thing he did in his new car was pick up his 14-month-old daughter so they could get a bite to eat.
(WATCH the video below)
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In a bid to banish air pollution generated by automobiles, German ministers have announced that they will be testing free public transport in five different cities.
In a letter written to the Environmental Commissioner of the EU, German legislators wrote: “We are considering public transport free of charge in order to reduce the number of private cars.”
“Effectively fighting air pollution without any further unnecessary delays is of the highest priority for Germany,” they added, according to AFP.
The initiative will be launching by the end of the year “at the latest” in cities such as Bonn, Essen, and Mannheim. Should the scheme prove successful, Germany will expand the initiative and start refining public infrastructure to support the increased transit capacity.
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In addition to the free public transport, German legislators are planning on tightening emission restrictions for cabs and buses; implementing more tax breaks for low-emission vehicles; and encouraging carpool schemes.
All of these tactics will hopefully help the nation achieve the environmental goals set by the Paris Agreement.
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Quote of the Day: “What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.” – Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
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The Lesson: Tim Ferriss has suffered from frequent bouts of deep depression over the course of his life – but now, he has a recipe for avoiding self-paralysis and emotional free fall (and it’s the same tool that helps him make his best business decisions, too… it’s stoicism.)
Notable Excerpt: “Think of stoicism as an operating system for thriving in high stress environments, for making better decisions … I created an exercise called ‘fear-setting’, like goal-setting. And I can trace all of my biggest wins and all of my biggest disasters averted to doing fear-setting … You’ll find some of your fears are very well founded, but you shouldn’t conclude that without putting them under a microscope. What we most fear doing, asking, saying—these are very often exactly what we most need to do.”
The Speaker: Over the course of his career, Ferriss has become a one-time national Chinese kickboxing champion, a lecturer at Princeton University, a professional breakdancer on MTV, a horseback archer, and a multimillionaire author, motivational speaker, and investor. If that isn’t impressive enough, his critically-acclaimed podcast, the Tim Ferriss Show, was also voted #1 in its category on iTunes.
Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show is available for free on Overcast, Stitcher, and iTunes.
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It may have taken 48 hours of frantically searching through mud and sewage water, but it finally paid off: an anxious couple was reunited with the engagement ring that they had flushed down the toilet.
Haleigh Morrissey had been applying sun tan lotion to her skin last Saturday when she became worried about accidentally staining the diamond ring with the beauty product. She then called her fiancé Dean Booras into the bathroom so he could remove the ring from her finger.
Booras took the ring off her finger and wrapped it in toilet paper so he could wipe off the lotion.
A while later, Morrissey returned to the bathroom and saw the wad of toilet paper sitting on the counter. Thinking that it was just a piece of trash, she grabbed the tissue and casually threw it into the toilet.
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She then realized what she had done.
Desperate to retrieve the precious piece of jewelry before it reached the sewage main and became lost forever, Booras and Morrissey recruited the help of their neighbor Ken Gunari and his sons.
The group started out the expedition by shoving a camera into one of the pipes to see if they could see the ring. Though they did not see see the jewelry, the video showed that there was a group of plant roots that had grown into the pipes. The Gunaris reasoned that if the ring had gotten lodged in the plumbing, it had most likely gotten stuck on the roots.
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The crew then cut a hole in the pipe and inserted a mesh filter with the hopes that it would trap the ring before it got washed away.
Finally, Luke Gunari saw the ring trapped in the filter, pulled it out of the water, and presented it to Booras and Morrissey.
“I’m … looking down at it and I see some shiny thing in there,” said Luke, according to KTVU. “They didn’t know I had it in my hand… just walked up slowly with my hand open… and they look down at it and they just started screaming.”
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Hannah Thornton is used to being around seniors suffering from loneliness – so when she overheard two strangers befriend each other on the train, she could not contain her happiness.
Thornton volunteers for a charity in Sheffield called Age Better; a nonprofit dedicated to encouraging friendships amongst the elderly in order to reduce social isolation during their golden years.
While she was riding a train to Liverpool at the start of February, she heard two older men strike up a conversation a few seats away.
“This time last week, I got the train to my Grandma’s and shared part of my journey with 2 lovely men,” wrote Thornton. “They’d never met before but instantly hit it off and laughed like they’d been best friends for years.”
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Touched by the sweet exchange, Thornton scribbled a quick note to the duo, commending them for their neighborly attitudes.
“I didn’t want to interrupt your conversation but I wanted to let you know how heartening it’s been listening to you chatting on the train this morning,” wrote Thornton.
She went on to explain how she volunteered with Age Better and how they strived to make people feel less alone.
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“We encourage people all the time to be neighborly and to share a smile or a nice word with another person, so it’s been lovely to hear you both doing an abundance of that!”
She finished the note by saying that they “both seemed very young at heart” and Age Better was always looking for volunteers if they were interested in sharing their charms with others.
Later that week, she got an emailed response from one of men who was named Bill.
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“Thank you for the note you gave me as you left the train yesterday,” he wrote. “You made 2 old men very happy – although I don’t consider myself as old. 63 is the new 40!!!!”
He went on to say that he and the other man, an 80-year-old gentleman named Morris, had been delighted to chat with each other on the train ride. In addition to explaining where he and Morris had been headed, Bill commended Thornton for her charity work and said that he would be interested in working for the organization in the future. Also, he was more than delighted to be a neighborly example for his community.
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“[Morris] was a really engaging and lovely person to talk to,” said Bill. “I didn’t manage to open my paper or look at my iPad once. I wish every trip was like that.”
Thornton took photos of both of the letters – from her and Bill – and posted them to Twitter where they have since gone viral.
They have already been shared over 40,000 times, and the young volunteer says that she is glad that they can now inspire others to be more friendly.
This time last week I got the train to my Grandma's and shared part of my journey with 2 lovely men. They'd never met before but instantly hit it off and laughed like they'd been best friends for years.
— Hannah Thornton (@hannah_shef) February 9, 2018
I scribbled a note to them as I got off the train...and I got a reply!!?? pic.twitter.com/eWA7hiNEim
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This photo of a man and a gorilla sharing a sweet embrace has earned Jo-Anne McArthur the coveted title of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award.
Pikin the gorilla had originally been captured by poachers with the intent of using her for bushmeat. Thankfully, the Ape Action Africa charity rescued her and brought her to an animal sanctuary in Cameroon.
In the photo, Pikin was being transferred to a new sanctuary when the sedatives wore off and she woke up.
While some animals might have exhibited discomfort towards finding themselves in a moving car, she woke up in the arms of her caretaker Appolinaire Ndohoudou.
Ndohoudou shares a bond with Pikin; not just because he helped rescue her from the poachers, but also because he too was forced out of his home in Chad because of a civil war.
Upon rebuilding his life in Cameroon, he found a passion for helping displaced wildlife – just like Pikin.
The competition, which was held by the Natural History Museum, received over 50,000 entries. Now that McArthur’s photo has been chosen as the winner from a shortlist of 24 photographs, “Pikin and Appolinaire” will hang in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Museum until it closes in late May.
“I’m so thankful that this image resonated with people and I hope it might inspire us all to care a little bit more about animals,” said McArthur.
“No act of compassion towards them is ever too small. I regularly document the cruelties animals endure at our hands, but sometimes I bear witness to stories of rescue, hope and redemption. Such is the case with the story of Pikin and Appolinaire, a beautiful moment between friends.”
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Quote of the Day: “Children love to share because they can feel the warmth that comes from reaching beyond ego boundaries to include another person in their world.” – Deepak Chopra (The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents)
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If you missed our live stream of Good News Weekly-LIVE on Facebook Tuesday evening, check out our interview below with Jay Levin the LA Weekly Founder and former journalist who is bringing emotional learning (EQ) into a school near you.
“We all can alter our lives, relationships, careers – AND consequently the broader culture – for the better,” says Levin, about his Big EQ Campaign. “That’s why social and emotional learning skills (SEL) should be included in every school’s curriculum.”
In Episode #4, we also discussed the week’s top good news.
Every week we record the show LIVE at Liberate Hollywood — join us in the audience at 6365 Selma Ave. in Hollywood.
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The Lesson: If you have recently suffered through a romantic break-up, things may feel pretty gloomy. That’s why happiness expert Gretchen Rubin has a few tips on how you can refocus your energy, analyze your energy levels, and thrive, despite the hardships of your heart.
Notable Excerpt: “Think about moving on. Change feels refreshing, it feels energizing, so rearranging the furniture or maybe painting the room a different color, so it feels like ‘This is a new beginning–I’m starting fresh because there’s something optimistic and exciting about a fresh start.’ It’s the end of something – and that’s sad. Acknowledge that it’s sad and don’t try to pretend that it’s not, but also it’s exciting and new, too. There’s possibilities now and I don’t even know what those possibilities are.”
The Host: Dubbed a “Happiness Guru”, best-selling author Gretchen Rubin started her career in law and was clerking at the Supreme Court when she realized she wanted to be a writer. To date, the Manhattan-based speaker has written several biographies, self-help guides, and indexes on the happiest places and practices in the world.
Podcast: Her top-ranking, award-winning podcast, “Happier with Gretchen Rubin,” which discusses happiness and good habits.
Books: Rubin is the author of “The Happiness Project”, which spent two years on the New York Times bestsellers list. Her books, including “The Four Tendencies”, “Happier at Home”, and “Better Than Before”, have sold almost three million copies worldwide in more than thirty languages.
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When Andrew Kurka was only 13 years old, he was an award-winning wrestler who had achieved several state titles. Then, an ATV-related accident left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Instead of allowing negativity to consume him, however, the youngster from Homer, Alasha became a Paralympic champion.
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Since Kurka turned his focus from wrestling to mono-alpine skiing, he has won 4 world championship medals for the snowy sport.
Now, the 26-year-old is competing in the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games in South Korea.
(WATCH the inspiring interview below)
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The mayor of Seattle has just announced that city officials are starting work on legislation that would vacate or dismiss charges for misdemeanor marijuana possession.
Mayor Durkan wrote in an editorial: “People’s lives were ruined for misdemeanor marijuana offenses. Too many here in our community faced huge legal bills and fines, or had a harder time getting loans, apartments, and good-paying jobs.”
Vacating and dismissing the charges in Seattle will mean that thousands of city residents will be able to get a fresh start since marijuana possession was legalized in 2012.
The announcement is a welcomed follow-up to California’s recent efforts to wipe the slate clean for over one million residents convicted of similar possession charges after the state legalized recreational marijuana use on January 1st.
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“Our action will affect people who had been convicted of offenses for conduct that is now legal under state law. People won’t have to take any actions like hiring a lawyer or going to a court hearing,” says Mayor Durkan.
“I hope these actions we’re taking here in Seattle can lay the foundation for other cities, counties and state to act, too.”
“Addressing the wrongs that were caused by the failures of the war on drugs for many years in this country – and particularly the damage wrought on communities of color – won’t happen overnight,” says Durkan. “But today, this action is a necessary first step in righting the wrongs of the past and putting our progressive values into action.”
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Six months ago, George Dakin Jr. had been walking down the sidewalk when he suddenly went into cardiac arrest and fell to the ground. His heart stopped before he even hit the pavement, and for 28 minutes, Dakin was dead.
The 64-year-old architect is now only alive to tell the tale thanks to a homeless man who had been drinking coffee near to the spot where he collapsed.
Dakin was fortunate enough to collapse in front of CHAMP Homes Inc. – a faith-based shelter for homeless people in transitional housing based in Hyannis, Massachusetts. 54-year-old Austin Davis was inside the building when he heart someone outside scream for help.
Davis, who had only just been given CPR training at CHAMP a few days previously, ran over to Dakin’s motionless body and started giving chest compressions. Davis was conducting CPR for ten minutes before paramedics arrived and loaded Dakin into the ambulance.
Dakin had suffered 100% blockage in his LAD artery. This condition has been called “the widowmaker” because it is almost always fatal. Only after 18 more minutes of CPR and defibrillator shocks were paramedics able to get a pulse out of Dakin.
“No one could believe it,” Dakin told Patch. “The ambulance folks didn’t believe it. The doctors didn’t believe it. They said if you’re in the hospital and you have an LAD blockage in the hospital you won’t survive it — even if you’re in the hospital!”
As a means of thanking Davis for helping to save their father from certain death, Dakin’s kids created a GoFundMe page to raise money for the homeless man.
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Jodi Dakin Loughlin said: “Austin is not a drinker. He does not do drugs. He is always very well put together. He has a lovely personality and I know he can rise above this situation with our help.”
“He is doing EVERYTHING right to escape his circumstantial homelessness– but the hurdle is TREMENDOUS. Odds of escaping homelessness are about as bleak as walking away from a heart attack,” she added.
The family has since been able to raise $15,000, which is being spent on a 2012 Toyota Corolla; the security deposit and rent for an apartment; health insurance; and gas cards – all of which will help get Davis out of transitional housing.
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Since the Dakins have started their efforts, Davis’s place of work – a hotel in Hyannis – has also promoted the homeless man from his former part-time position to a full-time position. Jodi says that this will be especially beneficial in keeping Davis on his feet.
“[The General Manager] assured me that Austin is well worth this investment for the hotel, and he is an employee with great pride in his work and a wonderful personality,” says Jodi.
Jodi has also expressed endless gratitude towards the multiple donors and community members who have helped her repay Davis for his kindness.
“I am in awe of the generosity of our friends, family, and total strangers who have banded together to help Austin Davis rise out of homelessness,” says Jodi. “This is unbelievable. Thank you all so much.”
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Theresa and Tony Matthews may not have any human children, but they do care for 17 kangaroos.
That’s because the Matthews are the masterminds behind Our Haven Wildlife Shelter – an animal rehabilitation center in Victoria, Australia. In addition to the 17 eastern grey kangaroos, they reportedly also care for 3 swamp wallabies and a pygmy possum.
The couple first became spurred to start caring for the joeys after a man drove up to their home in 2010 with an injured young kangaroo in hand, and asked if they knew how to care for injured wildlife.
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Ever since they welcome the little roo – who they named Bobby – into their home, they have opened their doors to dozens of other injured animals.
“Because of our love for kangaroos, we just opened up our home to them,” Theresa explained in an interview with Barcroft TV. “And this rescuing got bigger and got bigger.”
(WATCH the video below)
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Quote of the Day: “Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.” – Judy Blume, Tiger Eyes
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After spending the last four years fighting three different forms of cancer, a young mom in England has finally been cured – and it’s all thanks to Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, the Academy Award-winning stars of Titanic, who threw her a lifeline when her boat was sinking fast.
Gemma Nuttall was sixteen weeks pregnant when a body scan revealed that she had a tumor in her ovary. Doctors wanted to give her life-saving treatment immediately, but she would lose the baby. She decided that because the unborn child was the reason they found the growth in the first place, she would continue the pregnancy.
The tumor grew very quickly, but doctors performed a successful C-section after 36 weeks and the young mother immediately started chemotherapy treatments.
A few weeks later, however, another scan revealed that she had cervical cancer—and she had another surgery to removed those tumors.
For two years, the young mother from Lancashire, England and her daughter Penelope were thriving.
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But, then, in 2016, more bad news: this time tumors were found in her brain and lungs – and she was given just 6-9 months to live.
Rather than get her affairs in order, Gemma and her mother did some research online and found a “wonder clinic” in Germany that specialized in treating severe cancers with immunotherapy. But, the treatment came with a $420,000 (£300,000) price tag.
They immediately created a GoFundMe campaign that, fortunately, caught the eye of Kate Winslet, who is also an English mom (but has three children).
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“I thought, this poor woman is probably years away from being able to access that kind of treatment,” Winslet told ITV’s This Morning. “There was just £9,000 in the fund, so I thought I just could not let this happen.”
Winslet did some fundraising on her own and then thought, “It was time to call my friend, Leo, to ask if we could do a charity dinner or something. He said, ‘We can do one better’.”
They auctioned off three dates as Jack and Rose – the young couple they depicted in Titanic.
Upon successfully raising the funds for the 29-year-old’s treatment, Nuttall was declared cancer-free six months ago.
Not only that, Winslet had another idea—to set up a foundation to assist others who are in the exact same position. And, guess who is going to help her?
“Gemma is going to help me run (it) and be involved,” said Winslet.
“So much good has come out of this remarkable moment. I mean look at Gemma. Look at her. She is so beautiful. She is alive. She is cancer-free. It is utterly incredible. I feel so blessed that I could help.”
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After you pump some quarters into your parking meter in Southern California, look for the new ones that put your change to great use: housing the homeless.
Earlier this week, city and county representatives of Los Angeles unveiled six new colorful “parking meters” that collect coins for the Skid Row-based charity C3 – a nonprofit dedicated to pairing homeless residents with housing.
According to LA Curbed, the initiative was introduced and approved by the city five years ago. (We don’t know what took them so long, do you?)
In addition to raising valuable funds for rough sleepers living in poverty, legislators hope that the campaign will possibly “curb aggressive panhandling”.
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The meters will also raise money for C3 through sponsorships costing $3,500.
A spokesperson told the LA Times he machines themselves were donated, will cost $5,000 to operate and maintain, but generate $21,000 from annual sponsorships, producing at least $16,000 for the outreach program, plus any money collected from the public.
The installations are similar to the key-shaped parking meters that were erected in downtown Milwaukee back in September, as well as meter-styled installations in Denver, Washington D.C., Detroit, Pasadena, and Indianapolis.
You can find some of them located in Grand Park, El Pueblo, near the lobby of Hotel Alexandria, and at the St. Vincent Jewelry Center.
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