Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Pay It Forward in Peoria, Illinois
This is our second find from the Peoria Journal Star. This paper runs a column called "Random Acts of Kindness", so they're already ahead of the game.
Read this cool little submission to that paper about a woman who was about to buy a child seat at Wal Mart when the person in front of her offered to give an identical chair to her for free. All the giver wanted was for this person to "pay it forward." Many of us saw the namesake movie with Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment. Like the movie or not, the concept is pretty solid: Get a gift, pay it forward and watch the world become a nicer place.
read the piece in the Journal Star...
Read this cool little submission to that paper about a woman who was about to buy a child seat at Wal Mart when the person in front of her offered to give an identical chair to her for free. All the giver wanted was for this person to "pay it forward." Many of us saw the namesake movie with Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment. Like the movie or not, the concept is pretty solid: Get a gift, pay it forward and watch the world become a nicer place.
read the piece in the Journal Star...
