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Search Committee’s Reference checks We do not have a happy report to give. We have not been able to find a suitable candidate for this church, though we have one promising prospect. Thank you for your suggestions. We have followed up on each one with interviews or by calling at least three references.…

THE IDEAL WIFE Always beautiful and cheerful. Could have married movie stars but wanted only you. Beauty that won’t run in a rainstorm. Never sick. Just allergic to jewelry and fur coats. Insists that moving furniture by herself is good for her figure. Expert in cooking, cleaning the house, fixing the…

During a resurgence of the pandemic after Christmas 2020, an Oregon insurance organization encouraged weary health care workers and supported local restaurants at the same time. The insurance fund SAIF used a wellness grant to fund hot, individually wrapped meals from some of the city’s favorite restaurants…

Based on a recent decision by Illinois’ Governor Pritzker, which remarkably Mayor Lightfoot verbally opposed, indoor restaurant service is again being suspended in the city of Chicago as a way of attempting to combat the deteriorating Coronavirus statistics. Many of the restaurants which are still open,…

An anonymous customer at a Houston restaurant left the staff a gift to help the staff hours after the county announced mandatory business closings in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. The restaurant said the customer left a $9400 tip a few hours after the county mandated the closings and left a note…

Workers at a New Jersey restaurant were brought to tears after a long-time customer left a $1,000 tip on a $43 tab. Arnold Teixeira, owner of restaurant said they had recently reopened for outdoor seating when the customer left the large tip with an encouraging note. The note thanked the staff for working…

Two widows shared an unusual bond with Tanya, their server at an Ohio restaurant. The bond developed when Tanya told the two women that she had recently lost her husband. “The women said, 'You know, it's Restaurant Week and we're going to take care of you.'” They left a $2021.00 tip when they paid their…

A security camera at a Texas restaurant recorded the moment a runaway tire crashed through a window, just missing an employee working inside. The video from Pallott’s Italian Grill shows the tire flying through the window while an employee was sweeping the floor nearby. The video shows the employee jumping…

Workers renovating a café In England made a discovery that may change the way the café does business. While pulling apart a section of ceiling, workers found a menu from the restaurant that occupied the building in 1913. The menu from the Yamen Café and Tea Rooms was dated January 1913. Workers also…

A Chick-fil-A restaurant in Brownsville Texas welcomed a duck when it chose to nest in their parking lot. The establishment used their social media page to report that the duck, named Daisy, was living in the parking lot, and asked guests to say hello, but be respectful of her home. The restaurant posted…

The owners of a new restaurant in England dug up a receipt from a business that occupied their building more than 100 years ago. Ben and Lucy Cuthbert, owners of market Square restaurant said the receipt from the department store Lewis, Hyland, and Linom was in the floorboards they removed during the…

During the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic one of the hardest hit businesses were restaurants. Just hours before the Ohio governor ordered all bars and restaurants to shut down, a customer at the Coaches Bar and Grill in Columbus tipped $2500 on a $30 Check. “Please split this tab equally,” he wrote. Owner…

The owner of a restaurant in southwest China has an unusual offer for patrons. He offers a discount to customers who can make him laugh. The owner said his discounts range from 10 percent for jokes that make him smile all the way to 50 percent for a hearty laugh. Several residents came to participate…

Restaurant owner Robert Magiet has found a unique way to help other small food vendors on the coldest Chicago days. Magiet stops at the vendor’s carts and buys their entire inventory for the day which allows the vendors to make their daily wages and also go home and stay warm. On average, he buys 15…

Danielle Reno said she only got out of her car for a minute to pick up her daughter, but when she did, someone jumped into her car and drove away. Reno said she filed a police report but decide to do some detective work on her own. The thief had also taken her credit and debit cards because her wallet…

Mandy Gorton, the owner of Roots Café in Naples, New York received a card from one of her regular customers a couple of weeks after indoor dining was shut down due to COVID-19 restrictions. She said, “It was a beautiful card expressing their concern for us being able to survive the shutdown and their…

A waiter at a New York City pizzeria returned a cashier check for $424,000 to a woman who accidentally left it behind but failed to leave him a tip. Armando Markaj did not find a tip, but did find the check as he was cleaning the table at the restaurant. It had been left behind by Karen Vinacour who…

For the first time since forecasters began recording data in Los Angeles 132 years ago, the city failed to reach a high of 70 degrees for the month of February in 2019. The average high for the month was 61 degrees, significantly lower than the historical February average of 68 degrees. That means February…

Despite the bad news in the world around them, two North Dakota families choose to focus on good and spread kindness. 11-year-old Eva Brooke and her family collected $280 and gave it to their server when they visited one of their favorite local restaurants. Brooke said she got the idea from another friend,…

Elizabeth and Jake Landuyt felt their wedding was like a dream come true. The ceremony was perfect and things were going according to plan, until the cottage next to their reception venue on Mackinac Island in Michigan caught fire. They had to evacuate and the only thing they could think of was walk…

The Soup Place, a restaurant in Melbourne Australia has created an ongoing program to provide meals to the homeless and in need of support. Customers pay for a meal then leave a sticky note on board for a person in need to redeem. Often customers leave messages for the recipients even though they will…

The philosophy of the Waffle House restaurant chain has always been, “We are not in the food business, we are in the people business.” Founder Joe Rogers insisted that in addition to good basic food his staff offer Southern-style hospitality. His son, Joe Jr., says it is that approach that helped the…

I have heard it said, I believe in heaven but I’m not in any hurry to get there. This feeling became real for Stanley Heerboth and his wife after they attended the funeral of a good friend. When the service concluded the Heerboths decided to go to a Chinese restaurant for a little Szechuan pick-me-up.…

Timothee Mottin owns a café-restaurant in the French Alps and has gathered a collection of items from mishaps on the Mont Blanc glacier. His most recent find is copies of Indian newspapers with headlines for 1966 when Indira Gandhi became India’s first woman prime minister. The papers were probably aboard…