Random Acts of Kindness

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kindness@freepress.mb.ca.

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• Olive, the Scooter Lady rides again

  I went shopping at Walmart, riding my scooter as always. I get all the way home and realize I have no parcel. Oh, boy!

  View Full Post 02/3/2012 11:57 AM 0

• Thanks for purse’s return

  I wish to express my sincere thanks to the lady who returned my purse after I left it in a shopping cart in the Safeway parking lot on Kildare Avenue on Friday the 13th (wouldn’t you know.)

  View Full Post 01/24/2012 2:00 AM 0

• Friendly people in friendly Manitoba

  During the first week of January I went to Home Depot to purchase a table saw.

  View Full Post 01/22/2012 2:00 AM 0

• Thanks to the truck driver with the stiletto

  My daughter and I were in a car accident Jan. 10 at lunch time on Henderson Highway.

  View Full Post 01/20/2012 12:09 PM 0

• Photographer was the picture of compassion

  MY husband and I were married this summer. The weather was perfect, and the day was everything we hoped it would be. We could not have had a better start to our life together.

  View Full Post 01/7/2012 1:47 PM 0

• Grateful for help

  I want to thank the person who found my credit card in the parkade at the Superstore on Portage Avenue on Dec. 17 and turned it in at customer service.

  View Full Post 12/27/2011 4:21 AM 0

• Nick says thanks

  I am a double amputee who went Christmas shopping two weeks ago in Polo Park.

  View Full Post 12/25/2011 4:24 AM 0

• So many to thank

  I fell and broke my arm entering the Safeway in Fort Richmond Mall.

  View Full Post 12/23/2011 3:19 AM 0

• Help for Sunset

  I was picking up a friend to finish some Christmas shopping when I noticed that my friend’s neighbours across the street were standing outside frantically looking up at the huge tree in their front yard.

  View Full Post 12/22/2011 4:17 PM 0

• Wonderful angels on the road

  Dec. 1 was the worst night of my life.

  View Full Post 12/22/2011 1:00 AM 0

• Wallet returned

  I am a mobility-challenged senior who rarely gets out for shopping trips. My family had taken me out for some Christmas shopping, including a stop at the Chapters outlet at Polo Park.

  View Full Post 12/19/2011 1:00 AM 0

• Three to the rescue

  I want to thank three special people who “stood guard” at my car a few weeks back.

  View Full Post 12/16/2011 1:20 PM 0

• Thanks for caring

  I was involved in a motor vehicle accident, on Sept. 16, on Academy Road, that resulted in my vehicle rolling over.

  View Full Post 12/8/2011 7:03 PM 0

• The cat came back — with a little help

  Kramer, our seven-year-old tabby, left his home in Lindenwoods on Sept. 21. When he did not return, we thought he had drowned in the Hudson.

  View Full Post 12/8/2011 7:01 PM 0

• Small kindnesses mean so much

  On Dec. 1 I went out to mail a letter and do some shopping. Somehow the letter was lost and never mailed.

  View Full Post 12/8/2011 6:59 PM 0

• Thanks for the help

  I would like to thank the two wonderful ladies who assisted me after I slipped on the ice on the sidewalk near Portage Avenue and Arlington Street on the evening of Dec. 1.

  View Full Post 12/8/2011 6:53 PM 0

• Thanks for changing flat

  Being at an age where fixing a flat is not something I would choose to do any more, I had only just stopped my car when I heard a horn honk behind me. A stranger got out of his car saying he would change my tire, then proceeded to do so.

  View Full Post 12/1/2011 9:00 PM 0

• Need more such kind deeds

  I was on my way to work early in the morning.

  View Full Post 12/1/2011 8:58 PM 0

• Purse returned, she'll pay it forward

  You are my hero and living proof that honest and kind people really do exist. They live in Winnipeg. I am still shaking just in the retelling of my story five days later.

  View Full Post 11/24/2011 7:16 PM 0

• Thanks for cane's return

  I went to the mall with my cane on Nov. 2. I used my hands to untangle a shopping cart. I went on my errands to the three places.

  View Full Post 11/24/2011 7:01 PM 0