Hey Bob!
I was seriously JUST thinking of you when I found your email! HELLO! Plans are underway in WP for our 4th annual Day of Kindness! This has been an amazing past six months for the preschool. We have purchased Grace Episcopal Church and its parish house on Main St. Whitney Point. In six months I raised enough grant money to make the purchase. We have renamed the property Saving Grace as we saved Grace, and we hope it will be the preschool/daycare center’s saving grace. We hope it will lighten the burden on the community of our ever-constant candy bar, magazine and novelty catalog sales to raise money for the center. Instead we are now able to provide the community with a space for concerts, movies, weddings, dinners etc. and make a bit of money in the process.
We have our grand opening with a concert on Friday, April 25 -which is also our kick-off to our day of kindness! We are giving seed packets out at the concert with a pay it forward message about spreading “seeds of kindness” wherever we go. Saturday is a literacy fair with free books for every child and we will continue our message of kindness. Then on Sunday, the Day of Kindness, the community is again ready to come out and help one another performing random and planned acts of kindess.
How are you and Bogart? Your message will once again be shared in our community Bob with our Weekend of Kindness. Next year maybe you will be close enough to be with us at Saving Grace for our 5th observation – sure to be a special day!
Thank you for mentioning Whitney Point!
-Kim
Please help us spread our message of a Goal of Kindness to schoolchildren across the country. Your donations are crucial to making this a reality.
Mail donations to:
One Million Acts Of Kindness
PO Box 770054
Lakewood, OH 44107
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Bogart is my travel companion on The Kindness Bus Tour for the next ten years. We will be on the road traveling to campuses across the country. Bogart is a eight year old Boston Terrier. He is a great people dog... he loves meeting new people. I am Bogart's fourth owner in his short 8 years of life... Not because of him but because his three previous owner's lifestyles changed after they took him in... Lucky for me!! Bogart is the luckiest, most spoiled dog on the face of the earth. He loves the bus and he loves to travel. Please come and visit him when we are on your campus.
The Blue Bird Corporation donated this amazing bus to One Million Acts of Kindness, allowing us the continue this initiative. It has been painted to closely resemble the original Kindness Bus. It will last well beyond the ten years of this mission. A very big thank you to Blue Bird from Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
The original Kindness bus has been donated to a professor at Virginia Tech who will use it on campus and at schools in the Blacksburg area. The Kindness Bus will continue to inspire and comfort residents, students and visitors in that area for years to come.
One Million Acts Of Kindness is a goal. A goal for each person to individually perform One Million Acts Of Kindness in their life. Can you imagine a greater goal for one's life? It is a constant mind-set of kindness every day of your life for the next fifty-five years. Doing for others and kindness in your heart for everyone. It is my wish that you will dedicate your life to a charity... finding the passion in your heart for something or someone in need.
As a father of three college age kids I am concerned for the world in which all kids will live. A great way to create a safer, more caring world is for everyone to start their lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness. So I bought a bus, had about sixty family members, friends and neighbors help paint it and began a ten year journey with my Boston Terrier, Bogart, to college campuses across the country hoping to convince as many of you as possible about this much needed movement for this world. I love you guys too much to sit back and not do anything about this. Let's start a kindness movement in this country today to change the direction this world is headed!! You are the change that this world needs.