Here's the QCTimes article and the QCOnline article. Oh, and here's one from the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
Its amazing to me that she would do this for someone she's never met, and not just giving him money, but taking time to talk to Travis on the phone. According to one of the articles, Michelle even said he could call her back anytime he needed to talk.
I also just love the stuff that both Michelle and her father are saying about the QC and the midwest in general. From the QCOnline article:
"The people (in the Quad-Cities) are like people in Hawaii," B.J. Wie, Michelle's father, told Honolulu Star-Bulletin sports writer Dave Reardon. "I don't know what they call it in the Midwest, but it is just like the Aloha spirit."It really makes you remember that no matter the problems we're going through here, the Midwest has some world-class folks.
My second feel-good story is not QC-related. A few years back, the 2 founders of Penny Arcade, which is a website and online comic about video games, decided that they needed to do something to show people that video gamers aren't all trench coat-wearing, basement-dwelling weirdos. They started the Child's Play Charity. Here's a quote from an LATimes story about it:
Founded in 2003, Child's Play's goal is to ease the strain of long-term hospitalization on children and their families by providing videogames, crafts, and other toys. By leveraging Penny-Arcade.com's three million person reader-base, last year's event was an overwhelming success, collecting nearly $250,000 in toys and cash. And because all involvement in the event is volunteer-based, 100% of the donations were presented to the Children's Hospital of Seattle.That article is from 2004, and in the following years the total amount raised passed a million dollars, and they've expanded to dozens of children's hospitals. In 2006 alone they're approaching half a million bucks. People can either donate money, or go to a special site where you can pick things that hospitals need off of Amazon, and them have them shipped directly to the hospital of your choice.
The Child's Play website can be found here.
So next time you hear about the evils of computer and video games, keep in mind that gamers do good works too.
6 comments:
Thank you Alderman Meyer, for bringing it to Rob's attention in the IT department, about employees using cell phone minutes, instead of taking a few steps and using a regular phone for free. Another thing that should be looked at it the city bus drivers using cell phones while the busses are in motion. I watched one city bus blow through a red light at 7th and Division, while the lady driving the bus was talking on the cell phone. The should be forced to use the phone while on their many smoke stop breaks.
Not sure, but at least one city dept. or agency has a written policy against cell phone use while the vehicle is moving. The buses do have cameras which record activity on the bus.
How does Keith know if the employee is making a call on a City cell phone or their personal cell phone? How does he know it is not an employee's child with an emergency? Once again Keith doesn't understand his role as an elected official. What are you going to micromanage today Keith?
Previous poster is obviously another city employee trying to cast doubt on Keith's efforts to point out waste in the city offices and departments. Obviously using their computer to surf the blogs when they should be doing their job.
No - I am a stay-home spouse of a city employee and I'm tired of Alderman Meyer wasting the time of city employees with ignorant requests and being critical of people who bust their a___es for ungrateful #$%@** like you. By the way does your boss know you are surfing the blog during work hours?
Yikes! I hope the spouse has better people skills. Keith might be better off choosing his battles but if taxpayers are paying for cell phones it is only right they are used for the right purpose.
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