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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Sheriff’s deputies in one Georgia community are targeting driver in need of some holiday cheer and giving them $100 bills instead of traffic tickets. Monroe County Sheriff J.C. Bittick says an anonymous donor gave $5,400 to launch the goodwill drive, so his deputies are passing out the money instead…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When Journey Baptist Church sold their building, they had plans to build in a new location that was in a better location and gave them room to grow. They purchased a new site, but found that building a new structure cost too much, so they decided to continue meeting in temporary facilities. Then, the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Samantha Jackson and Farzin Yousefian were planning a lavish wedding in Toronto. When the Syrian refugee crisis hit, the couple canceled their plans and instead are using the money set aside for their big day to sponsor a Syrian refugee family’s resettlement in Canada. They still got married, in a small…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Johnny Duckworth, a 50-year-old busboy who works at a Colorado diner, doesn’t have a full-time job, a working car, or a home of his own. But when he found an envelope stuffed with $3,000 in cash left by a customer he promptly gave it to his boss who returned it to its owner. The boss, Randy Emmons then…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In Keene, N.H. Robin Hood is at work. A group of six people, calling themselves the Robin Hooders, have been shadowing city parking enforcement officers and feeding change into expired meters just before the officer has a chance to check. The city has filed a civil lawsuit against the group, which a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Peggy Uhle was already on a flight from Chicago to Columbus waiting to take off when the plane turned back to the gate and a flight attendant asked her to get off. She thought maybe she had gotten on the wrong plane and she complied. The gate agent asked her to check in at the desk, and the desk told…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Genocide, rape, destruction, child trafficking are all the norm in many parts of the world. This devastating reality has caused millions of people to flee their homes, countries, and families looking for safety. There are more displaced people in the world now than there were after World War II. There…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
A Seattle elementary school credits an alert garbage man for finding nearly $12,00 in checks. Micah Speir was picking up trash next to some bins near the school when he found a number of checks made out to the school. He contacted the principal who met him on his route and gratefully took the checks…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
An anonymous couple dropped a check for $500,000 into a Salvation Army kettle as the annual collection season began. A spokesperson for the local organization, Julie Borgen said the previous record for a single donation was $25,000, and typically a kettle takes in about $30 an hour. Borgen said the bell…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A Florida woman who was feeling generous started a pay-it-forward chain that lasted for hours. When the woman paid for her meal at a fast food restaurant, she told the cashier that she wanted to pay for the meal of the car behind her. When the cashier told the next car that their meal had been paid for,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of his company, billionaire chief executive Li Jinyuan rewarded his entire staff of 6,400 people with a trip to Europe. The workers visited tourist sites in Paris and wound up in a parade on France’s Cote d’Azur. French media estimates the billionaire’s generosity cost…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Street children in New Delhi are taking some of the money they earn and sending it to help children in Nepal who have been affected by the recent earthquake. “I know what happens when an earthquake strikes,” said 14-year-old Rani (name changed). “I am not only collecting money from others but I will…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A Georgia student gave the Christmas spirit a whole new meaning when he recently won a $160 tablet from a school fundraiser. When 9-year-old Jarrett Wilson won a brand new Galaxy tablet, he immediately cashed it in and used the money to buy gifts for children on his school’s angel tree. Jarrett bought…
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Just before Christmas an anonymous woman walked into the Wal-Mart in Mesa, Arizona, went up to the customer service desk and gave them $5000.00 with the instruction to pay off as many delinquent layaway orders as that amount would cover. The store cleared 30 orders. “When Wal-Mart employees began phoning…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Eight-year-old Cayden Taipalus was upset when he saw a friend denied a hot lunch at school because his account was overdue. When he got home that day, he told his mother how upset he was and that he had decided to do something to help his friend and others who were forced to go without a hot lunch. Cayden…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
An Indiana pizza delivery driver was surprised with a $1,268 tip when he delivered two pizzas to Indiana Wesleyan University’s chapel. Keith Newman, the chief executive officer of Residential Education at the school told students during the chapel service that he was ordering pizza to illustrate an idea…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
When neighbors in a Michigan community were annoyed over a paperboy’s car making too much noise early in the morning, they had a choice. They could file a noise complaint with the police, or call the Newspaper and get him fired. Instead they decided to help out someone in need. The paper boy’s car had…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In the middle of a typically hectic Monday night at a Texas Chick-Fil-A, one man made a huge difference. The man, who has not been identified, paid for his meal then gave a donation of $1,000 telling employees he wanted to pay for everyone in the line behind him. Employees said most customers smiled,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
23-year-old Christine Royles of Portland, Maine needed a kidney transplant. Instead of just waiting for a donor she got creative. She put a sign on the back of her car asking strangers to consider donating. Josh Dall-Leighton saw the sign in a mall parking lot and told his wife, “I have to try.” The…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Hector Montoya wanted a PlayStation 4. He saved $300 from his meager allowance. Hector heard the news about a mother and her 6-year-old child killed in a house fire. He made the choice then. With the help of the Grand Prairie, Texas Fire Department, Hector purchased about 100 smoke detectors and had…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
When the owner of an Oklahoma restaurant discovered that someone had been going through food containers in the dumpster, she decided to offer that person a meal. Ashley Jiron, the owner of P.B. Jams said it hurt her that someone had to do that. The thought that someone needed to go through the garbage…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Caring for others is a character issue. Raymond Burse is the president of Kentucky State University. With a salary of $350,000, Burse is well paid for the challenges he faces leading a major state university. Recently Burse took a voluntary pay cut to $260,000. The $90,000 the university didn’t pay him…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Greg Snider pulled into a parking lot in Houston to make a business call. While he was there, a homeless man approached the car and asked for change, so Snider gave him 75 cents and drove off. When Snider pulled onto a nearby freeway, police stopped him and surprised him by how aggressive the officers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Retailers that help customers by allowing them to extend payment on their Christmas gifts through layaway say they are seeing a growing trend of people who want to help others by paying off their layaway balances. Several major retailers say they have seen more than 1,000 instances each season totaling…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Ron Elliott, 67, was a caregiver at a nursing home in London, when won a $12.8 million jackpot in the lottery. Today Ron Elliott is a rich caregiver at a nursing home in London. The day after winning he returned to work and plans to keep working as long as he can. “My clients have dementia and suffer…