Planned acts of kindness
Published: March 9, 2006
We should all be like Lindsy Marie Stevens.
The 9-year-old from West Scranton spent last weekend helping others.
On Saturday, Lindsy did 172 cartwheels in 15 minutes at the Viewmont Mall. While that is an incredible feat, Lindsy was flipping over to raise funds for others as part of a cartwheel-a-thon for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
The very next day, her mother, Marci, said, the Lincoln/Jackson School third-grader headed to Malcolm’s Haircutters in Clarks Summit, where she had Melissa Cruise cut 10 inches of her beautiful blonde hair off to send to the Locks of Love program that creates hairpieces for pediatric cancer patients.
“I just think it’s so wonderful she gave up her weekend to do two huge things, to donate, to give back,” Marci said. “She doesn’t know I’m calling, I just wanted to do something nice for her because she inspired me so much. She’s my 9-year-old daughter, and she inspired me.”
Lindsy’s weekend started Friday at a healing Mass at St. Paul’s Church in Green Ridge where the Lenten sermon was about sacrifice. She left the Mass telling her mom she decided to cut off her hair for Locks of Love.
“She’s known for her gorgeous, long blonde hair,” Marci said, adding that Lindsy had “the longest hair in school.”
But after seeing a Locks of Love story on television, she was “adamant” about donating it.
She also was intent on raising lots of money for Make-A-Wish at the cartwheel-a-thon. She’d only been doing gymnastics for two months at Alpha Gymnastics in North Scranton but was “really excited,” Marci said. “She knew the more (cartwheels) she did, the more money for Make-A-Wish.”
Marci took the advice of her sister, Jesse Rogan, a gymnast who studied with Bela Karolyi, and waited until Lindsy got done cartwheeling to make her pledge.
Lindsy, also the daughter of Harry and Christina Stevens, of West Scranton, is the granddaughter of Paul and Mary Coviello, of Clarks Summit, and Harry and Maria Stevens, of West Scranton. She has five sisters, Monica, Julia, Shelby and Emily Stevens and Alana Scanlon.
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