Have you ever noticed that most food banks have way more items than others - often limiting the choices for the very same people you are trying to help.
It happens around this time every year and today is the day! Wednesday, March 30th is when Jersey Mike's caps off their 'Month of Giving' campaign by donating 100% of the days' sales to CASA for Kids of East Texas.
Football players are stereotyped as big, mean, and scary. We see them every week tackling other players to the ground. But sometimes the players who seem the biggest and scariest, are the most loveable with the biggest hearts. That's what Houston Texans WR Andre Johnson just proved.
We’ve all done it. We buy a small bag of groceries at the store to donate to a food bank. We bring toys for the tots. We buy some gloves and a scarf to put on a tree for a needy child. But few of us have done what Rankin Paynter did for his Clark County community.
Longview Police have recovered some of the Christmas presents stolen from a storage facility late last year. The toys and electronics were among many items that belonged to the Gregg County Child Welfare Board, and were going to be distributed at Christmas to local foster children.
We have all seen the commercials on T.V. of families not having enough food. Parents doing without so their children can have a meal. Hunger is a universal problem. Hunger does not just exist "over there" -- every day in every community our neighbors are experiencing this devastating issue
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