Posts Tagged ‘Kids & Teens’

Young Amputee Helps Others Get Prosthetics

Friday, September 25th, 2009

In 2005, 16-year-old Jordan Thomas was in the hospital undergoing several surgeries to his legs, which had been injured in a freak scuba diving accident.

While he was there, he was touched by some of the other kids’ stories, particularly those who did not have the money or parental support to get the care they needed.

Although Thomas lost both of his legs from the calf down, his time in the hospital gave him a new purpose: helping needy children get prosthetics that can change their lives for the better.

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Quadriplegic Teenager Loves to Surf

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

When Patrick Ivison was a small child, a car backed up over him in a freak accident, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.

But this physical limitation does not stop Patrick from accomplishing his goals. In fact, the young man, who is now 15, plays basketball and rugby, and has also learned to kayak and ski.

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One Smart Cookie

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

People are surprised when they learn I have my own cookie business, with my own name on the packages and a contract with a bakery.

After all, I’m only 16 years old and still in high school. I never set out to go into business. What I really wanted to do was help the homeless.

But as I look back on it now, I see that something much bigger was happening.

I came home from school one afternoon to find my mother reading an announcement in our temple bulletin. A homeless shelter in nearby Bridgeport was asking for food donations.

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Her Biggest Assignment

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

The newsroom phones were ringing, the news wire clattering, keyboards clicking, reporters and editors yammering—it all made my heart race. I was a reporter for the Wheeling News-Register in Wheeling, W. Va. My beat covered anything from fires and break-ins to local politics. Plus the occasional "soft" human-interest story.

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It Takes a Stand

Friday, October 24th, 2008

"Mom," my four-year-old daughter, Alex, said on that gray and unpromising January afternoon, "I want to build a lemonade stand."

Alex and I were on the stem cell transplant ward of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut. As I stood looking out the window at the frozen landscape, I was trying to imagine how all of those bare hopeless trees would look again covered with green.

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Annie’s Soldier

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

"Mom!" my 10-year-old daughter, Annie, shouted as she burst through the front door after school that fall afternoon nearly three years ago. "I just got a letter from a soldier!"

Annie's teacher had given them a project: Write a letter to a U.S. serviceman or woman in Iraq. Annie had worked hard on a big picture of a red, white and blue cat. On the bottom of the page she'd written, "Be safe, and thank you."

I'd cautioned Annie not to get her hopes up too much.

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