Acts of Kindness week

Acts of Kindness week has been held in Grand Island since the week before Valentine's Day since 1999 by Gloria Wolbach and the area's 60 AOK Acts of Kindness ladies. It's a wonderful message and I hope it will become known as the "City of Kindness" year around. We all need to practice kindness and love toward one another.

Ara E. Ranslem

1311 N. Cedar

Good people of Nebraska

A very nice thing happened to me today, Tuesday, Feb. 5. I had been out of town for seven weeks visiting my son and came home to all this snow and ice. My deep freeze had stopped running and I had emptied the melted foods into the garbage and taken it to the curb. While trying to pull the large container back to the garage, I saw this truck stop and three young men got out and took over. They not only put the garbage can back but I asked them if they would like a job taking at least one layer off the driveway so I could get my car in and out. Two of them started to try to get the ice off but it was impossible so I suggested they just take their big machine and push the loose snow away. They all worked and when I asked them what I owed them, they would not take any money. There was something very familiar about one of the young men and I asked him his name and he told me. It turned out that he was the grandson of Norman Hayman, a man my husband and I had known quite well through swimming and the Red Cross. Needless to say, their kindness brightened my day and made my other problems seem lighter. (A television that wasn't working right and a soft water machine that would not stop running and the loss of a freezer full of food.) Those seven weeks I was gone were in a warm state and I kept getting the word not to come home because of the terrible weather. Maybe the weather was cold but the people of Nebraska are kind and warm. Guess that is why we live here.

June Blackburn

2703 Riverside Drive