A company is trying help a charity:

The Flatbread Company will make a generous donation to Burlington’s People Helping People for every pizza they sell (including take-out orders) on Tuesday, Jan. 21, from 5 to 9 p.m. In addition, People Helping People will host a bake sale on site throughout the evening.

It’s bigger than this:

Burlington’s People Helping People is a non-profit, primarily volunteer-driven emergency assistance organization comprised of the Burlington Food Pantry, the Covenant for Basic Needs and the Holiday Wish Tree.

They give clothes, food, and other supplies. Great network of organizations.

Next, a…different article of a woman performing CPR to save a man’s life:

A young man reaches and enters the elevator just before her, and the doors close before she can join him. When Hostler hits the “up” button a few seconds later, the doors reopen and she’s stunned by what she sees: 25-year-old Bob Hallinan lying facedown on the elevator floor and not moving.

So then she, and another woman who appeared went to work. Hostler started CPR:

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Ah yes, it’s another day of good news.

A man is being called the Good Samaritan on Main Street. Here’s why:

As other residents cozied under blankets inside last week, Bob Meldrum bundled up to brave the elements. Rather than doing just the minimum in snow and bitter cold, the retired superintendent of schools and Rotarian goes the extra mile—literally. With every snowstorm during the past 25 years, he has taken it upon himself to plow the stretch of sidewalk on Main Street from the Vermont border to Slocum Avenue.

Here’s some of why he wants to do this:

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I took some sort of break yesterday but I’m back and I have good news for you.

 

Anybody know how to pronounce that name? Hello? I have an idea but I’m black and I feel like that somehow plays a part in it.

Our first story is tale of two wars:

Reality hit and she immediately started crying when she realized she was just diagnosed with cancer. She learned that she had two tumors, one located on the front and one located on the back of her liver. The tumor in the front was attached to an artery which interfered with the blood flow to her heart.

Two weeks after the diagnosis, Echols was admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the District of Columbia area to be close to her family. She would have to prepare for a life threatening surgery which the chances of survival were very slim.

Yeah, she’s a sergeant who was stationed in Germany. There’s more:

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A volunteer firefighter was driving by a building when he noticed smoke:

He said he was driving by and saw smoke rising from the building, which has businesses downstairs and apartments above. He said he banged on the doors to alert residents, then ran outside to tell people to call 911. That’s when Cordero’s boyfriend, James Lucas, ran back into the building with Hope to save his son, Ky-Mani.

A hero that is honest:

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