[bc_video video_id=”6138791235001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] Bullying has become a major epidemic, but one local nonprofit is doing something to combat the problem right here in our community. Boo2Bullying was founded in 2011 by Dimitri Halkdis, a very successful professional photographer based in Los Angeles and in the desert. He […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6128813433001″ account_id=”5728959025001″] Students across the Palm Springs Unified School District are wrapping up lessons in kindness this week. More than 600 students painted rocks with feel-good messages of peace and love. Teachers and administrative staff posted greetings and phrases in hallways and restrooms to remind students of the importance of being kind. At Julius […]
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The first day of school can be nerve-wracking. Especially when not everyone has such supportive classmates. Two elementary school boys in Wichita, Kansas, set an example from which we can all learn: a lesson in kindness. Courtney Moore dropped off her 8-year-old son, Christian, for the first day of school and watched as he sat […]
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A woman who inspired thousands with a photo of herself in a hijab, a wide smile on her face and two fingers raised in a peace sign in front of anti-Islam protesters said Thursday she wanted to “combat their hatred with kindness.” Shaymaa Ismaa’eel, 24, who is Muslim, said she immediately spotted the protesters when […]
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[bc_video video_id=”5996119313001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] Students pressed their thumb in paint and left their print on a display at Della S. Lindley Elementary School in Thousand Palms … “By putting your finger here you’re promising to be kind every single day, okay guys?” says counselor Pam Mathis. This school signed up […]
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A Marine Corps veteran who decided to pull over to the side of the Beltway to help someone with a flat tire didn’t expect he’d see the face of a man he had long admired. Anthony Maggert, of Stafford, Virginia, was driving on the Beltway Wednesday headed toward Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in […]
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A Northern Virginia teen with autism who has a serious love for peanut butter handed out jars of his favorite food to people affected by the government shutdown. Eric McKay, known as “Bean,” eats peanut butter sandwiches on toasted English muffins three times a day. “It’s just good. It’s good,” he said. But Bean doesn’t […]
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[bc_video video_id=”5834640158001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] Cathedral City High School students are celebrating kindness. Three words sum it up nicely: “Dude. Be Nice.” “Yes it’s been amazing, I mean the students here are so nice and so kind,” says Samantha Camua, a sophomore at CCHS, with a big smile on […]
