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Old 03-27-2016, 09:32 AM   #1
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I promised to start a "good news" thread so here goes....

Serving Up Dignity: A Soup Kitchen Set Up Like a Restaurant


Mar 27, 2016-- The Kansas City Community Kitchen has been serving the community as a soup kitchen for 30 years. But this February, it re-opened its doors with a new restaurant-style initiative that allows the homeless to "dine with dignity." The new process includes greeters, waiters, and menus that lets diners choose what they want to eat.

It isn't easy finding good news but I'm gonna try every day to find something.
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I know, but if we look hard enough for a little each day it might cheer us up a little bit. I'm willing to try!
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Good luck Vetter - it's an admirable cause.
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Thumbs up Prisons get clean water to students in Flint, Michigan.

More good news, enjoy!

The contest recently ended and altogether, the facilities collected a whopping 29,000 bottles for the students. And though Pugsley Correctional Facility collected more water, they weren't the true winners.

They also got a local grocery store involved to add to the drive. Inmates at the facility donated money, contributing a total of around $600 toward the initiative, a huge amount, especially considering their income.

It's a lot of money when you're making $1.17 a day or making $.26 an hour.

In addition to assisting with the project financially, prisoners also helped load water onto trucks to be stored in a warehouse until the bottles are sent to the schools.

I think the numbers speak for themselves. To have $600 dollars collected from them when they had very limited money and resources that speaks volumes, Dawson said. [It shows] that they're willing to give back to the community instead of themselves.

Maybe some can be rehabilitated!
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That is good news Vetter!
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The recent wildfires that spread across Oklahoma and Kansas wasn't as large as first reported.
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2 overnight earthquakes in the area, no reports of damage.
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Thumbs up Gang Member Morphs Into Lawyer Who Helps Troubled Kids

A drug dealer and larcenist who had been arrested 13 times by his 20th birthday ? and who once faced 15 years in a Florida state penitentiary for felony aggravated assault ? has morphed into one of Atlanta?s hottest young lawyers.

David Lee Windecher uses his own gripping memoir, The American Dream: His Story in the Making, to give troubled kids a ?road map to putting their adolescent mistakes in the rear view mirror,? reports the CS Monitor.

His message: Too many Americans ? prosecutors, citizens, and even gangsters themselves ? buy into a myth that youths are a lost cause.
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