Posts Tagged ‘Rescuers’

Actor Delivers Supplies to Haiti

Thursday, January 28th, 2010
!--paging_filter--pActor John Travolta has joined the Haiti relief by flying his own Boeing 707 plane to the devastated nation carrying supplies and a team of doctors./p pTravolta, along with his wife Kelly Preston, helped unload the six tons of ready-to-eat meals and medical supplies, according to FOX News. The actor, who is an avid pilot and owns several planes, had done a similar mission when Hurricane Katrina hit./p pWhen asked about his rescue efforts, Travolta said he felt he could not sit by with a ready-to-use plane and not do anything with it./p pa href=http://www.guideposts.com/story/actor-delivers-supplies-haitiread more/a/p

Prolific Blood Donor Says Giving is the ‘Greatest Feeling’

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Albert Fischer could be called a guardian angel of sorts to the countless people he has helped through his regular blood donations over the past 58 years.

On September 8, Fischer reached a crucial milestone by donating his 40th gallon of blood at the New York Blood Center, making him one of only two individuals in the U.S. who has given so much.

The 75-year-old Massapequa, New York resident first began giving in 1951 at a church blood drive in South Carolina and has donated virtually every 56 days since then.

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Heroism 101

Sunday, July 1st, 2007
!--paging_filter--pMark Lerer, a freshman at the State University of New York in Rockland, has a tendency to run out on his classes. quot;It's okay with my professors,quot; he says. quot;They just prefer that I sit near the door.quot;/p pWhy the permissive attitude? Mark's a volunteer firefighter with the Rockland County Fire Department, and at 19 is one of the youngest members./p pquot;You're never off duty,quot; he explains, adding that he sometimes has to skip out on his job at a waiter as well. quot;Everyone understands that the firehouse is my top priority.quot;/p pa href=http://www.guideposts.com/story/fireman-student-dedicated-to-workread more/a/p

Safe Haven

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

I didn’t leave my home in Mandeville, Louisiana, when Hurricane Katrina struck.

I undergo chemotherapy each week for a highly aggressive form of breast cancer, so medically my options were somewhat limited. But that’s not the reason I stayed.

I own Lansa’s Boarding Kennels, a hotel for pets. Business was booming—I was almost too busy to count my blessings. We have 60 runs, and I had plans to expand to 100 with an additional nonprofit adoption facility.

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Open Arms

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

9/6, 10:00 A.M.
A gorgeous September morning in our suburban Atlanta neighborhood. At breakfast with my husband, Bob, I glance at the Hurricane Katrina headlines.

A haunting photo of a woman struggling through waist-high water with a child no more than two at her hip stares out at me. Who is she?

I go for my morning walk, that mother and child in my mind’s eye as I imagine the thousands of other mothers and children just like them in Louisiana, or camped out at Houston’s Astrodome.

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