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Thursday, May. 8, 2008

Two-time cancer survivor bikes for a cure

Stratham locals who casually know Scott Joy are surprised to see him pedaling around the neighborhood on a touring bicycle and stunned when they discover he’s training for a 100-mile road race. They’re more accustomed to seeing Joy’s thin frame and bespectacled face on stage singing or acting in community theater. »

Wednesday, May. 7, 2008

Gift to Locks of Love

On April 27, 2008 Kayla Griego, age 10, of Eagle Point, fulfilled one of her dreams. After waiting for about a year to get her hair cut, she walked into Cost Cutters on Delta Waters Road where Carrie was waiting to give her a hair cut. »

Tuesday, May. 6, 2008

Miracle League season underway in Mauldin

Skies were stormy overhead but smiles were bright on the field as the Mauldin Miracle League’s fourth season kicked off March 29. »

8 y.o.’s inspired by Oprah to donate hair

The Designer’s Edge hairdresser measured 10 inches of Kennedy Phillips’s long red hair Tuesday. »

Monday, May. 5, 2008

Shave for the Cure is shear madness

The ranks of the differently-hirsute swelled by some twenty individuals on Friday, with the realization of the Second Annual Dakota Ridge Shave for the Cure. »

Monday, Mar. 31, 2008

Ministry helps families stretch food dollar

Angel Food Ministries has made a difference for Deanna Woodworth and her disabled husband. »

Churches help save money on grocery bills

With rising prices of just about everything these days getting any kind of break is a blessing. Now some in Connecticut can get a huge savings on their groceries with the help of the Angel Food Ministries. »

Girls give up their locks for kids in need

Last year, when health teacher Maura Kerkezis challenged her students at the Martha Brown Middle School in Fairport to do something for the community, she had a definite idea in mind. »

Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008

Tampa Bay Woman Makes Aid Happen For Baby Miracle

For Kristin Taylor, it wasn’t a matter of whether she would help the baby, it was how soon. »

Monday, Feb. 25, 2008

Program offers food at a discount to anyone

Nothing stops the volunteers at Fabion United Methodist Church. »

Mystery donor sticks neck out to help care charity

A MYSTERIOUS statue of a giraffe which turned up on the doorstep of a Golders Green organisation in the UK has raised hundreds of dollars for charity. »

Cops unite in hairless solidarity

When Officer Eric Schultz started losing his hair from chemo treatment a few weeks ago, he never imagined it would result in the unity he saw Saturday. »

Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008

Church finds better food to feed those in need

For years, Joseph and Linda DeAngelo of Good News Christian Center have fed the poor through their Service Heart Ministry. »

Friday, Dec. 14, 2007

Angel Food program helps hundreds of families save

Members of Richland Road Church of Christ heard about Angel Food ministries by word of mouth from a church member whose mother participates in the low-cost food program in Alabama. »

Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007

A hot meal by teens, for teens

Sunday dinner is in the hands of the Price boys. »

Monday, Dec. 10, 2007

Feeding People, One Box At a Time

Food costs have skyrocketed along with the cost of gas and utilities. These days, everyone is trying to shave a few dollars off the grocery bill. »

Six-year-old gives big part of herself to help kids

Six-year-old Haylea Starr Knight of Reidsville is giving a special gift to a child this Christmas season ? her hair. »

Officers offer Christmas to under-privileged children

Navigating the aisles of Wal-Mart during this time of year is like a ritual for one dynamic duo. »

Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007

Fox Lake police take kids on shopping spree

Police and village officials in Fox Lake on Wednesday helped give about 160 children a gift they’ll likely never forget. »

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007

Locks of Love lessons from fourth grader

An act of giving grew in importance thanks to a Colorado Springs fourth grader. Maddie Werner courageously stood before St. Mary’s High School students telling why their service is so important. »

At-risk kids to get shopping spree with officers

At risk youth and the children of fallen officers will go on a shopping spree with Scottsdale and Paradise Valley police officers, spending as much as $200 Dec. 15 during the 5th annual Shop with a Cop. »

Monday, Dec. 3, 2007

Feeding the spirit

Blessings come by the box at several churches in the Wichita Falls region through a program called Angel Food Ministries. Boxes chock full of nutritious food like steak, chicken tenders, fresh fruit, vegetables, waffles, hot dogs and biscuits, can feed a family of four for about one month. And the groceries that would retail for more than $70 are sold for $25. »

Students chop off hair for good cause

At Saint Mary’s high school, dozens of students and faculty cut off their hair for Locks of Love, an organization that makes wigs out of real hair for children with medical problems. »

Children shop with a cop

The Randolph County Sheriff’s Department and the Moberly Police Department teamed up to help 10 area children have a merrier Christmas by taking them shopping Saturday. »

Police, kids go on present patrol at Wal-Mart

Louis Diener had a tough decision to make: Should he get the popular video game “Guitar Hero III,” or a bike? »

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007

Police put cheer into Christmas

For the past seven years, Lane Dorsey’s immune system has suffered because she was born with two holes in her heart. »

Shop With A Cop Brings Smiles

The calendar may say November, but it seemed like Christmas Tuesday night for several metro children who enjoyed a shopping spree with a personal chaperone. »

Monday, Nov. 12, 2007

Shop with a Cop Organizing officer hopes kids have Christmas gifts

Edmond police Sgt. Paul Barbour takes his job of coordinating the annual “Shop with a Cop” program to heart because of what he experienced growing up in the projects in north Tulsa. »

Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007

Angel Food returns to Webster

Angel Food Ministries is a non-profit program brought to Webster Parish by Webster Parish Police Jury Office of Community Services, located at 208 Gleason St. in Minden and South Main Mall in Springhill. »

Feeding People, One Box At a Time

Food costs have skyrocketed along with the cost of gas and utilities. These days, everyone is trying to shave a few dollars off the grocery bill. »