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Random Act of Kindness Month August 2011
We would like you to help us recognize August as Random Acts of Kindness Month. Stop by one of our many drop boxes throughout McCook to nominate your favorite, local charity by telling us your Random Acts of Kindness story. Then join us on Friday, September 23rd at 4:00 pm for ice cream floats at Norris Park as we announce our 2011 grants to the community and the special Random Acts of Kindness grant award!
Page courtesy of McCook Daily Gazette
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS ENTRIES 9/2/2011
With note attached: “Hope you don’t mind, I aired up your tire. It was flat. You might keep an eye on it. It’s your valve stem leaking. Luke 6:31 I try to live by this although it is not always easy.
Local Charity: McCook Pantry
Dr. Dirk Gray came over to help with mowing after my resent surgery. He is board president of CASA.
Local Charity: CASA
Rheece didn’t think it was “safe” for our elderly neighbor to walk her rambunctious puppy, so he went to her home and took the pup for a walk every day.
Local Charity: McCook Humane Society
Friends – neighbors & people in our community living on the golf course and all around town, jumping in & working together after the hailstorm 8/9/1 –making sure everyone was ok and property taken care of.
Local Charity: McCook Community Foundation
Lukemia treatments for Cancer for children.
Local Charity: Children’s Hospital – Omaha Nebraska
My wife takes an elderly lady, in our neighborhood, grocery shopping because she can’t drive.
Local Charity: MCC Boosters
Reported water coming out front door at KC Hall.
Local Charity: None listed
The hail storm cleanup volunteers showed up in many areas. Twenty for the golf course clean up. Many people helped board up windows and pick up debris. McCook People are good people!
Local Charity: CASA
These People literally saved mine and my son’s life!!
Local Charity: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault
Help people who are mentally disabled.
Local Charity: ARC
Boy Scouts served and were at the funeral of Jim Sughroue (Indianola) , assistant Scout master. They also helped at his family benefit.
Local Charity: Boy Scouts 132 (Ron Jacobs)
8-9-11 Hail storm – Richard and Jane Stull were out of town – friends, family and high school students showed up and boarded windows, then just started helping everyone!
Local Charity: McCook United Way
Jeff Pinkerton has scooped/snow blown my sidewalks & driveway for the past four years & won’t let me help.
Local Charity: Domestic Abuse/Sexual Assault
McCook Humane Society goes out of the way to help animals & kids who need to do community service.
Local Charity: McCook Humane Society
Helped me clean the yard after the hail storm.
Local Charity: Heart Association
Lisa & Dixie Hill were returning from G.I. appointment when the handicapped van quit. It was 105 degrees and Lisa could not get out due to handicap. Dan loaded the van onto his transport vehicle and drove them to McCook. He would accept no pay – but was truly a savior to them. It was random, very kind, and done selflessly and he is an angle. (Dan Sanders – S&S Transport – Kearney NE 308-708-1510)
Local Charity: Kearney Humane Society- Kearney Ne 68847
Nolan Hanes and Brad Williams from Trenton, Ne, pulled out my mom’s motor home from the sand. My son called Nolan to get the name of a tow company. Next thing I know they were pulling us out and refused any money.
Local Charity: Home Health & Hospice – Community Hospital
Patricia Powers sent me an encouraging note and $50 gift card to a nearby restaurant to calm my fears about balancing home & teaching duties.
Local Charity: ABC Pregnancy Help Center
Dave Remmenga helped us when bees moved to our front porch. He sat up a hive and relocated the bees & filled the holes where they had moved in. If possible I would like the money to go to him, he did all this on his own time & used his supplies to fill the holes where the bees got in. I know he has helped others, with the same problem and doesn’t charge for the help. If not possible give the money to the Humane Society.
Local Charity: McCook Humane Society
My neighbors, Eldon & Sharon Parde, mow my lawn when they mow theirs. In winter they scoop snow from my steps, walk and walk in front of my house. They also help other elderly neighbors in many ways. They live their faith.
Local Charity: The Humane Society.
Don Hall is a regular volunteer getting and sorting supplies for the McCook Pantry in spite of his own health issues.
Local Charity: McCook Food Pantry
The McCook Humane Society cares for lost and abandoned animals and helps them find loving homes.
Local Charity: The Humane Society.
Sunya Decker sells her homemade noodles for the benefit of St. Judes. (At farmers market, church, etc.)
Local Charity: Meals on Wheels
A parent dropping off a child at school had a tire blowout. A school employee paid of r a new tire for this parent.
Local charity: Team Mates Mentoring Program
Several times our dog has gotten out of the fence and people have called us and taken care of her until we could go get her.
Local Charity: The Humane Society.
Made a handle for our cash box. We didn’t ask him to but he noticed it was difficult to move. (I picked up this entry at the Senior Center).
Local Charity: Heritage Senior Center
An E Free Church bible study painted our entire house in one day several years ago. What a blessing!
Local Charity: Evangelical Free Church, McCook
I was working and overheard a gentleman talking about how he and a few buddies got together and put a new roof on a couple’s house that had no insurance and was not able to afford to do so. They had it done in one day. They were happy with their payment – a home cooked meal!
Local Charity: McCook Head Start
After a semi hit a deer, he helped pull the bumper away from front tire so he could continue his trip
Local Charity: Habitat for Humanity
Fritz Hubert cleaned our yard after the hail storm August 9th. He worked on the railroad 2 days and came home and cleaned a pickup load of waste out of our yard. We were gone on vacation.
Local Charity: Fox Theater AEVPA
Dan Unger and Dennis Leiss are always taking care of Wayne Hager. Take him to Wal-Mart, church, sporting activities.
Local Charity: Meals on Wheels
Am First Bank Wellness Team purchased a new bike for a team member after hers was stolen. (See attached thank you)
Local Charity: McCook Pantry
I recently had an occasion to visit with a senior citizen at one of our retirement homes in McCook. Through the general course of our conversation I learned that she had returned to McCook (her hometown) following the death of her husband. Her family in the area is also elderly so come holiday time she would be pretty much alone. The Barb and Gary Wiemers family have taken her under their wing and invite her to share the holidays with their family. She is a so thankful for their RAOK. She doesn’t have to spend the holidays alone.
Local Charity: McCook Optimists
Every Year I give beef to the elderly people in Trenton, I get baskets from helping hand, fill them with fresh beef and hand it out to the elderly
Local Charity: St. John’s Lutheran Youth Group
Drusilla Foster
I vacuum my mother-in-law’s floor for her to help her out
Ed and Margaret Sughroue
Jim and Cathy Kinney helped us landscape our front yard using some of their money buying items and replacing areas of grass.
Ed and Margaret Sughroue
Tony Spilinek is very involved in our church and goes the distance to do frequent acts of kindness
All of the following were turned in for the McCook Economic Development Corporation
My boss was very kind to let me adjust my work schedule so I could take my kids to school on the first day.
Family helped me with my garage sale.
My mother-in-law took us out to lunch.
My neighbor brought us a strawberry beverage during our garage sale.
I let the person behind me in line at Wal Mart, go ahead of me.
My mom watched my kids for the weekend.
I donated money to my daughter’s childcare provider.
My friend helped my daughter adjust to VBS as she did not want me to leave.
Gary Scott is so kind to share his tomatoes and cucumbers with my family.
A friend invited me out to lunch.