by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 28, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In February 2017 a mechanic in Wild Rose, Wisconsin, handed a stranger the keys to his truck so the man could get to a funeral. The stranger was Todd Steinkamp, from Iowa. He was driving to Green Bay for the funeral of the wife of the owner of the company where he...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 22, 2026 | Stories, Jobs
David White retired in September 2025, after 33 years in education. He spent the last 15 of them as principal of Burgess-Peterson Academy, an elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia. By the spring of 2026 he was working in the same building again, and he came back as...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 16, 2026 | Stories, Gifts
In 2023 John Chan gave away his pet store. He was 58, and he had spent more than 40 years at Pet Central, the family shop on Grant Avenue in San Francisco’s Chinatown that his father ran before him. He worked ten hours a day, six days a week, and by his own...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 14, 2026 | Stories, Charity
A church work group from out of town was supposed to build a wheelchair ramp for a five-year-old boy in southern Ohio. An emergency at its own church forced the group to cancel. In July the football team built the ramp instead. Maverick Middleton, who goes by Mav, is...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 13, 2026 | Stories, Charity
In May a man left his dog at a fire station in Fort Worth, Texas. Fire Station 8 is what is called a safe baby site, a place where a parent who cannot care for an infant can leave the baby there without penalty. The dog was waiting at the base of the flagpole. His...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 12, 2026 | Stories, Gifts
In April 2026 Rhenda Strub had an extra seat at the ballpark and nobody to put in it. Strub is 70 and has lived in Olympia, Washington, since the early 2000s. She had signed up for Seattle Mariners season tickets that spring and drawn two field-level seats near first...
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