http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness all blog posts in chron order (most to least recent) en-gb Thu, 23 May 2013 14:01:11 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness/Thank-you-Good-Samaritans-208349221.html I was walking towards the entrance of Giant Tiger and didn’t notice the fault on the edge of the entrance sidewalk. I tripped and was covered with mud from head to toe. An extremely generous couple helped me to get up. Of course, I was in tears from embarrassment. Unfortunately, I... Tue, 21 May 2013 12:50:26 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness/Surrounded-by-help-in-seconds-208348601.html I was hit by a truck while walking across the intersection of Wellington Crescent and Hugo Street. It was a very scary experience for me, but there were so many wonderful people who each took a role to help and I’d like to thank them. Within seconds of the accident I was surrounded by Tue, 21 May 2013 12:45:50 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness/Missed-her-bus-to-help-208348311.html I was power walking on St. Mary’s Road and tripped on the sidewalk and broke my wrist. I approached a lady waiting at the bus stop. She phoned my husband and was willing to miss her bus to stay with me until I got help. Many thanks for your kindness. — Joyce Tue, 21 May 2013 12:44:16 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness/It-pays-to-be-nice-207407291.html What a surprise! I enjoyed a full course meal at a local Sal’s. I had a brief conversation about workplaces with a father and son at a nearby table. Upon leaving, I asked my server for the bill. She said, “It was paid by a gentleman.” It pays to be nice. — B. Tue, 14 May 2013 13:22:53 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness/Angels-saved-the-day-207406181.html We were travelling north on Highway 59 on April 1. It was a beautiful day, clear highway, when we hit black ice, went off the road and ended upside down. Four people in vans came to our help, got us out of the car, called the ambulance and RCMP and in no time we were in an ambulance to the Tue, 14 May 2013 13:18:30 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness/Kind-knights-to-the-rescue-207405611.html I was really stuck on the unplowed street and tried to get myself out by getting cat litter out of the trunk and with the aid of my cane, putting it in the deep holes I had already made. But I was not successful. Several gentlemen on Clifton Street came out of their homes to help me. One even Tue, 14 May 2013 13:14:35 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness/Cops-solve-the-case-207404241.html Hats off to our Winnipeg Police Service. Our van was stolen this morning, right off our street at 7:30 a.m., and we had Parent LED Conference at 8 a.m.. Patrolling the neighbourhood afterwards, I stopped and chatted with an officer in a cruiser. He knew all about it. Heard it on the radio. Knew Tue, 14 May 2013 13:06:25 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness/Silent-smiling-snowplow-driver-saves-the-day-207402931.html The plows were clearing the streets in my zone, and I was worried about the big ridge that would be left at the end of my driveway. I use a wheelchair and someone clears my snow, but he can’t always come right away. I was going out that day so knew I needed the city snowplows to help Tue, 14 May 2013 13:01:31 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness/Caring-people-rescued-Buddy-and-Sheldon-207401891.html Our daughters came home to find our dogs, Buddy and Sheldon, gone from our yard. The gate to their run was side open, and the dogs were not to be seen. A neighbour said they’d been running around their yard in the morning, so the dogs had been out all day and could have been anywhere. My Tue, 14 May 2013 12:59:15 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/kindness/Grateful-for-compassionate-wife-206607241.html It was Valentine’s Day this year, and my wife, her friend and two children were coming home from a choir concert that my six-year-old had performed in. They were stopped at a traffic light on Corydon Avenue several blocks before the Assiniboine Zoo and noticed an elderly lady in the car Wed, 8 May 2013 11:30:00 CDT