| Gracious lady with a Golden Heart
She grew up in household where giving and helping the less fortunate was a way of life. Growing up as a young girl on Sutton Street off Kemp Road, Patricia Jervis then Knowles, was the little courier for her mother, Aramentha, who on a daily basis would have her deliver food to the less fortunate neighbors. It was therefore not surprising that she continued what her mother started and has indeed added many more acts of community service to her charitable works portfolio. For her unstinting contribution of over 60 years of service, in 2003 she was bestowed the 'Golden Heart Award' by the Sir Victor Sassoon Heart Foundation. Patricia was born to serve. On a rather chilly Saturday morning I was escorted to her second floor Nottage Estate residence by her son, Michael, for an interview.
AROUND THE TOWN: Kids get right to the point!
I was assisting my friend, Suzy, in the third and fourth grade Sunday school classroom the other day, and we were studying from the Old Testament book of Micah. As the students were looking through their Bibles to get to the correct chapter and verse, one of the students, Logan Adams, looked up at me and said, "Mrs. Jan, I sure wish God had put the Old Testament in alphabetical order." Suzy and I almost fell over laughing. Out of the mouths of babes! My seven-year-old niece, Lorna, is a first-grader at Homestead Elementary School. She was showing me her report card the other day, and I said, "Well, sis, looks like you made straight A's." Without batting an eye, she said, "I did not Aunt Jan, one of them was crooked." It took me a second, and then I realized that she was talking about the shape of the letter A's.
No stopping now
After years of declining a friend's offer of nomination to the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame, Ventura College women's basketball coach Ned Mircetic finally relented this year. For the first time, he is eligible to be inducted. The inductees will be announced later this month. .
This cripple has fed 12 people for 36 years single-handedly!
Rudrapur (Uttarakhand), Jan.22 (ANI): You can, if you think you can. Despite coming across this popular adage many a time, we tend to forget it when there is need to show courage in real life. But 70-year-old Murali Singh Chaudhary in Uttaranchal's Ratuda village has lived his life holding on to it.
For septuagenarian Murali Singh Chaudhary of Ratuda, being able to earn bread for his family of 12 is nothing short of an achievement. Especially, when he recalls that has done this as a physically challenged man for the last 36 years.
Murali lost one of his arms when a boulder-like stone fell on him at work.
Being the head of family, he had no choice, but to look after them. Determined to succeed, he took a patch of agricultural land on lease and started working it to feed his family.
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