Got 33 Days?
Elissa Ashwood, CEO of Truly Accomplished, has a special challenge ahead. Rather than fret, she is going to fight with frills and bring out the good stuff. After a routine breast cancer screening that turned into a second look, and too many “It’s probably nothings”, the “nothing” turned into something:
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Rotary Food Drive Feeds Community and the Heart
The heart of a Rotarian goes beyond a weekly meeting. It’s about goals and helping the community. This year the Rotarians efforts worked to help Marion-Polk Food Share feed hungry families in Marion and Polk counties in Oregon.
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Tekcetera Gives Thanks to Community
The culture of a company is set by how a company treats their customers and employees, but when a company gives back to their community, it sets an example for us all, big and small.
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National Sports Leagues of America, Brings Action to Injured Athlete’s
Sitting in the stands watching three sons play football gave Zina Barrow of Arlington, Texas time to think and worry about the “what if’s” of having children athletes.
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Working to Make Sure all Children Bloom
For Jodi Goldberg, Founder and President of Blooming with Autism, is setting out to make sure that parents of Autistic children know and feel that the glass is half full, not empty.
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Looking at Youth Through A Different Lense
Kids can make big mistakes. The W. Haywood Burns Institute knows that, but a night in jail isn’t always the answer.
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Music Makes A Difference “Like” It and Help Suport Local Music Programs
Sonic Emotion is inviting everyone to “like” its Facebook fan page and tell the Sonic Emotion team what school they think most deserves to win the contest.
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Volunteers Turn Hobby into Help for Teen Mothers
Dave and Cherry Newman of Salem, Oregon, are avid garage sale shoppers. The couple scours garage sales looking for “treasures” to donate to New Beginnings Baby Boutique, a ministry that exists to show God’s love to young single mothers through the One Treasure Church.
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Kites Bring Learning Higher
They say the sky is the limit when it comes to learning, but Meg Albers, executive director of Aeolus Curricula, believes learning is limitless and she uses kites to teach that valuable lesson.
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Sit , Stay and C.A.R.E
Debby Dobson, of Cottonwood, Ariz., understands the bond between children and dogs. Her dream is to bring troubled dogs and teens together to form a partnership that will put both on a better path.
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Teaching Kids to DIG History
Can an unearthed clump of rusty metal show junior high school students that General Sherman and his Union Army troops did not burn down Atlanta during the Civil War?
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Bluepoint Solutions Offers Soft Hearted Support to Monarch School
As a child did you ever sleep in a bus rather than ride one to school? Use a cardboard box for shelter from the cold, instead of a fort?
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Cancer Patient Gets “Wrapped Up” in Healing
Brenda Jones, of New Jersey, was the angriest cancer patient ever. But it took just one ugly hospital gown and a doctor to tell her “Suck it up, princess,” to turn her anger into Hug Wraps.
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Good Style, Good Jobs
It's not often that fashion, function and fair trade come together, but thanks to Goodforall, the time has come. In 2007 Marja Bass, of Amsterdam, decided she wanted to make a better world by making high-style items that promote fair trade.
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Pin-Up’s for Vet’s Bring Smiles All Year Long
All good things start with someone wanting to do something for others. Gina Elise, founder of Pin-Ups for Vets, wanted to cheer up veterans and active duty military. She does so with one eye on the past and by putting her smile forward.
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A Strong Heart for Art and Others
Ten-year-old Patrick Foster, of Oak Creek, Wis., likes to draw. He also likes to play video games and run around the yard, until he has to stop and catch his breath because of a congenital heart defect.
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Love Brings Moor this Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is about showing love, Carolyn Moor learned about the gains of love through loss. Twelve years ago on Valentine’s Day Moor and her husband were returning home from a date. On the way home a driver clipped their car and her husband was killed in the crash.
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Truck Driver Takes Drive for Fish and Follows Dream
Bob Pacheco put the brakes on his long haul truck driving career and dived into owning and operating his own salt water fish store instead. He is proving that when Opportunity and passion are combined one can make one heck of a splash, for the long haul.
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Pixie Project brings Magic to a Dog and Human’s lives
Imagine a world where your pet, a shelter rescue, was the envy of the neighborhood. Amy Sacks, Executive Director of the Pixie Project based in Portland, Oregon, can imagine it and she is doing her best to ensure it happens.
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One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
The shoes might make the man, but José Alejandro Flores is making the shoes that are changing the lives of men, women and children two steps at a time.
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Got 33 Days?
Elissa Ashwood, CEO of Truly Accomplished, has a special challenge ahead. Rather than fret, she is going to fight with frills and bring out the good stuff. After a routine breast cancer screening that turned into a second look, and too many “It’s probably nothings”, the “nothing” turned into something:
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Thank You B.C Towing!
Thank you B.C Towing for changing my very flat tire! If you need to get back on the road, B.C Towing is the call to make Thank you for helping the Good Gal out! http://www.bctowing.com/ Not in the Salem, Oregon...
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Rotary Food Drive Feeds Community and the Heart
The heart of a Rotarian goes beyond a weekly meeting. It’s about goals and helping the community. This year the Rotarians efforts worked to help Marion-Polk Food Share feed hungry families in Marion and Polk counties in Oregon.
Read More
Tekcetera Gives Thanks to Community
The culture of a company is set by how a company treats their customers and employees, but when a company gives back to their community, it sets an example for us all, big and small.
Read More
National Sports Leagues of America, Brings Action to Injured Athlete’s
Sitting in the stands watching three sons play football gave Zina Barrow of Arlington, Texas time to think and worry about the “what if’s” of having children athletes.
Read More
Working to Make Sure all Children Bloom
For Jodi Goldberg, Founder and President of Blooming with Autism, is setting out to make sure that parents of Autistic children know and feel that the glass is half full, not empty.
Read More
Looking at Youth Through A Different Lense
Kids can make big mistakes. The W. Haywood Burns Institute knows that, but a night in jail isn’t always the answer.
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