THE GOOD PEOPLE THREAD~~~~~~~~~~~

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staropeace

staropeace

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I want to start a thread that is about good deeds done by good people. This man and wife gave so much! He came here from India in the eighties...an eye surgeon. He went on to open some hotels around the area. Bless you, sir and bless your wife.
If you know of any other good people.....be my guest to post it in this thread. Thanks.

Hotelier’s $2.5M gift kicks off NorQuest fundraising for new Edmonton building
 
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CriticAndProud

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I suppose this might be a bit subjective, but I had to post this here.

Good ol' Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister of Australia from '72 to '75 is a personal hero of mine, and is a legend in the eyes of many of my fellow Australians.


He pulled Australia out of the Vietnam War, gave the Indigenous people radical new land rights, installed universal health care, provided 100% Free tertiary education for everyone, established diplomatic relations with the PRC (before Nixon, might I add), doubled funding to the arts and banned Racism.

He lived a long, good life, and he will not be forgotten.
 
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danie

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Saturday my husband, son and I were driving to a basketball game and had a car accident. We were passing two cars on a two-lane road (legally and safely since no cars were coming towards us in the left lane.) Suddenly we realized that the first car was turning left right into our path. We veered left onto a gravel driveway. But the huge six-feet ditch after that was a doozey. My son in the back seat (jeep) was totally fine, but both my husband and I had I guess what you'd call whiplash, with severe neck, shoulder and back pain. Plus my legs hit the dash and are all bruised and banged up. They took us by ambulance to the hospital, and we had x-rays and such. Luckily, we were just bruised and shaken.
The "good " people I wanted to mention include the lady in the second car we were passing. She was a nurse, so was very good at calming me down and keeping me stabilized before the paramedics got there. She talked so sweetly to me, even wrapping her granddaughter's pink blanket (from her van) around me.
All the volunteer emergency responders were super nice too. We ended up with just minor injuries, but it's an event that certainly makes you think...
So I'd like to thank those strangers for helping me out when I was scared and in pain. There are so many nice people in this world.
 
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blunthead

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danie said:
Saturday my husband, son and I were driving to a basketball game and had a car accident. We were passing two cars on a two-lane road (legally and safely since no cars were coming towards us in the left lane.) Suddenly we realized that the first car was turning left right into our path. We veered left onto a gravel driveway. But the huge six-feet ditch after that was a doozey. My son in the back seat (jeep) was totally fine, but both my husband and I had I guess what you'd call whiplash, with severe neck, shoulder and back pain. Plus my legs hit the dash and are all bruised and banged up. They took us by ambulance to the hospital, and we had x-rays and such. Luckily, we were just bruised and shaken.
The "good " people I wanted to mention include the lady in the second car we were passing. She was a nurse, so was very good at calming me down and keeping me stabilized before the paramedics got there. She talked so sweetly to me, even wrapping her granddaughter's pink blanket (from her van) around me.
All the volunteer emergency responders were super nice too. We ended up with just minor injuries, but it's an event that certainly makes you think...
So I'd like to thank those strangers for helping me out when I was scared and in pain. There are so many nice people in this world.
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(((((danie and family)))))
 
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GNTLGNT

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...big and gentle hugs Danie....
...and a shout out to tons of good folk here locally, our Secret Santa Project is underway again...I'm guessing that nearly 700 families will be served this year...it is a Herculean effort of volunteer time and money, but my little community always seems to fins a way to make it happen...
 
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Todash

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One of my favorite topics ever! I will start out with an oldie but a goodie. In the 15th and 16th centuries, there was an explorer named Bartolomé de las Casas. He was a wealthy explorer who owned many slaves and had a plantation in the New World (the Americas). But when he got here and saw how the natives were being treated, he gave up his land, set his slaves free, and spent the next 50 years fighting the brutal colonization of the New World.

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By contrast, Christopher Columbus was a total dirtbag. Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal
 
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Kurben

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The most good through and through person i ever met is my grandmother on my fathers side. She could not say or do a mean thing. Funnily enough she liked to read horrible crime stories about many kinds of murderers. She, for some reason, absolutely adored me and she made the best pancakes in the history of the universe. She survived two world wars only to die in cancer when she was 85. I have never cried so much at a funeral before.
 
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skimom2

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We talked about this in another thread, but I'm so very happy to have groups in our community that want to help those that fall through the cracks. In this case, it's homeless teens. They can't go to traditional shelters, so they're stuck couch surfing (if they can locate a couch to surf, hopefully a safe one) or sleeping on the streets. A local group here has set up a safe shelter for teens (even jumping through the hoops local government requires) that should be open very soon, right before the big snows. I appreciate Youth Futures! This story was reported nearly a month ago--they're much closer to opening now.

Utah couple works to open homeless youth shelter | fox13now.com
 
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