A Georgia man is proving $1 can go a long way in helping people. Anthony Talley created a program where he collects just $1 from people all around his community to donate to someone in need, showing how small acts of kindness can add up. Through his $1 Thursdays program, the LaGrange, Georgia, resident collects donations of $1 each, and then passes the money along to someone in the city who needs it.
Last year he raised roughly $8,000, which primarily went toward helping a man who lost his home in a fire. He also used some of it to give back to children, buying ice cream for every elementary school student in the Troup County cities of LaGrange, Hogansville and West Point.
Talley said “When I do stuff like this it’s an overwhelming joy. People say, ‘well what do you plan to get out of this?’ And I tell them I plan to change the world, one life at a time, one dollar at a time.”
Talley lives in LaGrange, Georgia, a town with a high crime rate and high poverty rate of approximately 29.7%, so he knew he wanted to give back to his community. Talley’s latest charitable effort through his $1 Thursdays program is to raise money to help a mother of 10 with the purchase of a new car after hers was lost in an accident involving her daughter and helping a family with the funeral expenses of a loved one after she passed in a car accident.
He collects the donations through a cash app with the username $AnthonyMauriceTalley and through Venmo at @Anthony-Talley-9. He posts regular updates to his Facebook page to let everyone know how much has been raised and the current cause he is campaigning for. “Remember the goal is to change the lives of others $1.00 at a time,” he wrote in a Facebook post. Aside from his fundraising campaign updates, his Facebook page is filled with inspirational updates revealing that just one man with a heart of gold is spreading kindness and hope throughout his community.
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When Timothy Harrison, 18, showed up for a shift at the Waffle House he worked at on the day of his high school graduation, his co-workers were confused. When his manager Cedric Hampton asked why he was there he explained that he couldn’t get a ride across town and he hadn’t been able to secure tickets for his family to attend so he decided to come into work.
Hampton, along with several co-workers, got to work putting together everything Harrison needed to attend the event. The staff made a list of what needed to be done to get Timothy there and divided it all up. Cedric and two others headed to a clothing store to buy Timothy a sharp new outfit, while another coworker, Shantana Blevins, drove Timothy to the high school to collect his cap and gown.
Once they had gathered what they needed, everyone took turns helping Timothy get ready so he could celebrate his accomplishment. Shantana stepped up again to drive Timothy to the ceremony, waiting outside the whole time until he was finished taking pictures and celebrating with his friends. She then drove the teen home and made sure he knew he had the whole night off to enjoy the momentous occasion.
Cedric said he was happy to help Timothy because he’s a good kid — and because it was the right thing to do! “He’s a fine young man,” Cedric added. “He’s a hard worker, very polite. It’s the least we could do for him.” Harrison said “I had people want to see me succeed, so it kind of made me excited. When I put on the clothes, it was a different feeling, I don’t even know the words. A million dollars? It was the best feeling.”
Their wonderful gesture even inspired Lawson State Community College to offer Timothy a full scholarship, even covering books, and he will start taking classes in the fall. “To know that I have a path to go somewhere? That’s something new,” Harrison said. Harrison’s co workers said they are going to continue to lift Harrison up. “Now he can go to college and figure out what to do in his life, and we’re gonna help guide him,” Hampton said.
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Single foster dad Robert Carter decided to adopt an entire brood of five siblings to keep them together. Carter, 29, spent years in the Ohio foster care system himself so he knew only too well what it was like to lose touch with loved ones. He entered the system at age 12 and wasn’t reunited with his younger sister and brother until years later when they were teens. Carter was emancipated and granted custody of a younger sister and guardianship of a younger brother, he said. The emotional trauma of the experience fueled his desire to shield other kids from similar distress and provide them with a safe home.
Prior to the adoption, Carter was already fostering the three brothers and the two sisters were each being fostered in separate homes. When he arranged for the girls and their foster moms to meet up so the children wouldn’t lose touch with one another, he realized how distressed they all were at the end of the visit and he knew there was only one course of action. The children Carter adopted are Marionna, 10, Robert, 9, Makayla, 8, Giovanni, 5, and Kiontae, 4.
Carter became a licensed foster parent in 2017 and the three boys, Robert, Giovanni and Kiontae were placed with him in December 2018. The siblings, who he said came from a neglectful home, were reunited after not seeing each other for six months. “Once I did find out they had sisters, that’s when I started to advocate to set up visitations.” Carter said. Marionna and Makayla were later placed in Carter’s home with their brothers.
Caseworker Stacey Barton said “Mr. Carter was the only foster parent willing and able to adopt all of the children and his childhood background has made him aware of the importance of keeping siblings together. He says that he enjoys being their father and that parenting them is easier than he could have ever imagined. His life is busy, with a lot of love, laughter and loudness. I have enjoyed working with him and witnessing the children bond as siblings.”
Carter said he was the third oldest of the nine kids in his own family and he took on a parenting role before he entered foster care. “I was the parent figure and was the one trying to feed my siblings and going out trying to find food to eat.” Carter said he sees a lot of himself in Marionna, the oldest, “She’s the mother figure to the kids,” he explained. “But I won’t even let her make them a bowl of cereal now because that’s not her responsibility. She’s done it for too long when she shouldn’t have had to in the first place.”
With all the attention his family’s story is getting, he wants people to know how important fostering and adoption are. “Just the fact that they’re together, the fact that they have something that will help them remember their past… It’s beautiful to watch them grow up together and make memories together. As long as you have the means and love to give to kids, then anybody can do it,” he said. Right now, Carter is concentrating on earning his children’s trust and assuring them. “Every night, I talk to them and let them know, ‘I’m your dad forever. I know what it’s like, and I’m always here for you.’”
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, February 10th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, February 10th, 2019 was:
CHERYL HALL
Calhoun, GA
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
2/4/19
Kimberly Snyder
Jennifer Vega
Brooke Scott
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Lisa Puckett
Jeremy McLaughlin
Tabitha Sinks
Cheryl Hall
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Tonya Velazquez
Althea Thomas
Tina Mimick
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Amber Gildark Lowery
Christy Marie
Rosanne Clark
Kim Avery
Donna Porter
Carol Jean
Tracy Heyer
Marie Beauregard
Eric Sanders
Shannon Schleif
2/5/19
Kimberly Snyder
Jill Nauyokas
Kathleen Hickman
Jessica Steiner
Amber Gildrak Lowery
Alexis Maureen
Vickie Gipson
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Autumn Dansby
Christy Marie
Michelle Webb
Abby Noelle
Lenis Abshire
Wilma Mast
Eleazar Ruiz
Melissa White
Adaria Johnson
Angela Janisse
Ashley Agner
Dave Miller
Emily Rice Bowersock
Amie-Lee George
2/6/19
Angela Janisse
Jennifer Vega
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Nikki Hunsaker
Jenifer Garza
Paula Rivers
Kim Avery
Sheila Carvell
Kristina Rosson
Hayley Cordaro
Christina Domingue
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Jennifer Zarafino-Griffiths
Nitasha Shank
Brittany Light
Tonya Velazquez
Kara Kilhoffer
Tracy Heyer
Jill Nauyokas
Brandy Marie
2/7/19
Kimberly Snyder
Alexis Maureen
Jennifer Ramlet
Brooke Scott
Jenifer Garza
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Erika Hidalgo Walls
Andrea Ayala
Emily Boxer
Nikki Hunsaker
Tanya Holmes
Donna Porter
Jennifer Vega
Cheryl Hall
Kathi Taylor
Tonya Velazquez
Diane Hamric
Sheila Carvell
Allison Anderson
April Ashcraft
Karen Brunet Moore
Tina Mimick
2/8/19
Kristina Rosson
Angela Janisse
Kathleen Marks
Brandi K Chaney
Crystal Young
Tabitha Sinks
Jennifer Zarafino-Griffiths
Nicole Blaha
Be Schwerin
Mya Murphy
Wendi Black
Dawn Raasch
Carol Jean
Eleazar Ruiz
Kristina Harris
Sarah Frank
Sheila Carvell
Lisa A Mazola
Kara Kilhoffer
Joanna Hacker
Michelle Webb
Andrea Ayala
2/9/19
Amber Gildark Lowery
Carol Jean
Dale Fish
Angela Janisse
Kalynnilene Carter
Darlene Whyte
Edward John
Dawn Raasch
Shannon Rush
Samantha Brwn
Lori Sexton Leal
George Pownall
April Walrath
Kayla Hernandez
Alisa Jones
Brandy Marie
Shannon Scott
Nelle Bailey
Nai Merri
Derek Jennings
Jennifer Marie
Kendra George
Karen Rimiller Presley
Mike Adamski
Britta Brown Lawson
Stacy Nelson
2/10/19
Tracy Heyer
Jill Nauyokas
Tracy Shafer
Dale Fish
Brandi K Chaney
Amanda Saltsman
Be Schwerin
JR Eddington
Amanda Sue
Lisa Puckett
Emily Rice Bowersock
Beth Cleveland
Hunter Coffey
Becky Hansen
Alysia Jackson
April Ashcraft
Adaria Johnson
Kara Kilhoffer
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Susanne Killion
Eleazar Ruiz
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
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