Random Acts of Kindness

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kindness@freepress.mb.ca.

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• Thanks, John

  We would like to thank John at the furniture store on Main Street in Stonewall for his kindness.

  View Full Post 12/21/2012 1:13 PM 0

• A chair for Caleb

  A group of us at Transcona Hairstyles and Esthetics knit scarves to raise money to buy a wheelchair for an 18-month-old boy who suffered a brain injury when he was born.

  View Full Post 12/21/2012 1:10 PM 0

• Lunch a nice treat

  I volunteer and had taken a gentleman out to lunch at Smitty’s in Westwood on Dec. 1. A couple of young men sat in a nearby booth and when they left, they paid for our lunch.

  View Full Post 12/21/2012 1:07 PM 0

• Blue comes home, with a little help from his friends

  Our dog, Blue, went missing from our yard on Remembrance Day.

  View Full Post 12/21/2012 1:08 PM 0

• Playing for laughs

  I wanted to take the time to thank a group of comedians.

  View Full Post 12/22/2012 1:00 AM 0

• Lunch a nice treat

  I volunteer and had taken a gentleman out to lunch at Smitty’s in Westwood on Dec. 1. A couple of young men sat in a nearby booth and when they left, they paid for our lunch.

  View Full Post 12/21/2012 1:00 AM 0

• Always remember the emergency brake

  In my car, in a rush, I noticed the back window was still partially obscured by snow. Put the car in Park and jumped out to clear the window. All went well for a minute or two, then I leaned over to reach the far side of the window, and the car began to move. The door, still open, struck and threw me, fortunately along rather than on, the driveway.

  View Full Post 12/20/2012 1:00 AM 0

• Thanks to city’s real heroes

  Thank you to all bystanders who came to my assistance after my bicycle was sideswiped by a van.

  View Full Post 12/19/2012 1:00 AM 0

• ‘Thank you, Jack’

  My mother Anne McLaughlin, a senior, was driving on the far side of the Henderson Highway Sobey’s store toward Brazier Street in November 2011.

  View Full Post 12/18/2012 1:00 AM 0

• ‘John, you made my day’

  It was a beautiful, sunny, winter day and I had just come back from walking my dog. As we made our way up the sidewalk to my house, I realized that the huge snow bank, which the snowplow had left, was becoming very difficult to walk over.

  View Full Post 12/13/2012 6:45 PM 0

• Little laugh over special gift

  I submitted to the Free Press' [140th anniversary feature] the story of winning the paper’s colouring contests when I was a child in the 1930s. The prize was usually a colouring book and some crayons. After my story ran in the paper, my neighbours, Sergei and Liz Sherman, presented me with a colouring book and crayons, saying it was from the Free Press.

  View Full Post 12/16/2012 1:00 AM 0

• A kind act

  A big thank you to the very caring people who stopped to help my wife and I after a car accident.

  View Full Post 12/15/2012 1:00 AM 0

• Good people of Winnipeg

  We went with our son's family to Comic Con at the Convention Centre. He placed his leather jacket in the bottom of his daughter's stroller and somewhere along the line he realized it was not there.
  Of course, it was his favourite and one that he didn't wear too often. Needless to say, this put quite a damper on the afternoon.
  But when his wife called the Lost and Found at the Convention Centre someone had turned it in.
  This has restored his faith in humanity, and we will definitely pay it forward.
  Thank you good people of Winnipeg.
  - Linette Bell

  View Full Post 12/12/2012 3:57 AM 0

• Spare the snowman

  My three year old son and I went across our back lane to explore the huge snow pile in the city parking lot.
  We decided to make a snowman, my son's first, and he had a blast.
  After lunch, I looked out the window to see a loader in the lot preparing to remove the snow pile and clean the lot. I ran out and took a quick picture of our snowman to capture the memory before he was plowed away.
  To my surprise, the loader operator intentionally avoided the snowman and cleared the entire lot around it.
  While a small gesture, it would have been much easier for him to not bother working around our snowman.
  Thanks for making a three-year-old's day!
  - Cameron Neufeld

  View Full Post 12/7/2012 11:57 AM 0

• Help on an icy day

  I had an appointment at the dental college. I had parked my car and started across the parking lot towards the college when I stepped on a patch of black ice and fell.
  I was unable to get up but fortunately two lovely young ladies appeared and between the two of them, they were able to get me upright.
  One of the young ladies, who is studying to become an occupational therapist, held my arm and helped me all the way inside the college.
  I unfortunately did not get their names, but I want to thank them again for helping me.
  - Judy Wynne

  View Full Post 12/7/2012 11:57 AM 0

• Thanks to MPI workers

  Manitoba Public Insurance spent a week - starting on World Kindness Day - encouraging employees to do Random acts of Kindness for colleagues and strangers.
  They also encouraged staff to Pay it Forward if someone did a random act of kindness to them.
  This initiative made the world a kinder place and had tons of people shoveling snow for others, paying for the groceries of the mother in line ahead of them, donating money to charity, buying lunch for those who were hungry, stopping to help cars stuck in the snow, just to name a few.
  Thank you MPI employees for reminding us to be kind to one another.
  - J. Alkana

  View Full Post 12/11/2012 3:57 AM 0

• Returned the computer, a Mac!!!

  My husband and I flew in from Toronto recently to visit our new grandson here in Winnipeg.
  When we arrived, we found out we had a problem with our car rental. So we took advantage of the free wifi at the airport to rent another car.
  Unfortunately, when we had finished working on the computer, we somehow left the computer (a Mac!!!) on the seat where we were sitting. We didn't realize it until much later at the hotel.
  We called the airport authority - and here comes the Good Samaritan part.
  A wonderful person had picked it up, given it to Information, and it was there.
  I am so grateful for the kindness of this woman or man. I hope you read this. You're a peach!
  - Betsy Nantes

  View Full Post 12/10/2012 3:46 AM 0

• Angel with a crochet hook

  I was waiting for Handi Transit when I saw a lady crocheting a dish cloth in a very unusual pattern.
  I told her how beautiful it was and how I used to crochet, and that now I visit my husband in the hospital, I am finding the evenings long. Perhaps I should try to crochet again.
  As I was leaving, the lady gave me the dish cloth she had just finished and also a colourful ball of cotton thread.
  It really made my day. Thank you. You are an angel.
  - Viola Dufresne

  View Full Post 12/9/2012 3:44 AM 0

• A real prize winner

  I went to a warehouse several blocks east of Health Sciences Centre to pick up a prize I won in a lottery.
  It turned out to be large and fairly heavy, and I mentioned that I would have to call a taxi go get to a Portage Avenue bus stop.
  There were several other winners behind me. One kind gentleman spoke up and offered me a ride to Portage Avenue. Then, to ensure my safety at a bus stop, he drove me to Polo Park.
  His name is Guy Lansard, owner of Lance Roofing Ltd.
  Thanks again, Guy!

  View Full Post 12/8/2012 3:44 AM 0

• Kindness at the grocery store

  View Full Post 12/7/2012 11:42 AM 0