These Stories Will Make Your Week!

Each Wednesday WFXB teams up with the Maguire Law Firm to bring you Carolina Kindness.

Each Wednesday we pause to bring you acts of kindness from around the world to our own backyards. We have teamed up Maguire Law Firm to bring you Carolina Kindness.

Kindness at Delmae Elementary School.  Our local story is from Florence at Delmae Heights Elementary where kindness is attached to nearly everything Angela Jackson does.  The school principal wrote to tell us about her and the bulletin board she started.   Angela made it and put it where staff can see it everyday.   It’s board of encouraging messages to take and share.  She is also responsible for random tokens of appreciation she places around the school and she sends an email each morning to the staff with a positive message.   If someone is sick, Angela takes care of the flowers or notes of encouragement.  Delmae Principal Roy Jolley describes her as one of the reasons the school is a great place to work and calls her a ray of sunshine.

One Kindness at a time.  When Jamie Thurston witnessed the effect of kindness while delivering donated items to a family.  It made such an impact, the next day, she set up a Facebook page, now called 52Lives, with the aim of helping one person a week.  She started it as something she did between mom duties, but the ripples of kindness grew into a full fledged charity.  More than 300 have received helped in some form.   She won an award for her charity work and used the money to start a kindness workshop in schools.   She says when attempting kindness, to remember those who are not nice are usually the ones that need your kindness the most.  Research suggests that kindness is contagious. Being kind to one person can spread up to three degrees of separation.  So that means being kind to one person can positively affect up to 125 people.

Kindness at Taco Bell.  Today, love and kindness looked like a 12- pack of soft tacos and 3 starburst freezes!  Josh Walker was sitting in a Taco Bell and watched kindness play out when a group of boys came in.  They all sat down but only one of them ordered anything.  The other three sat and stared with hungry glances. Conversations about school, girls, and twenty other subjects were happening. A man sitting in the corner of the restaurant stood up came over and offered to get the boys a slushy.  They jumped at the opportunity.   The man told the cashier to charge the slushies and food to him. then left without asking for anything.

Share your story with us!

Email your random act of kindness to carolinakindness@wfxb.com, then join us Wednesday mornings at 9 a.m. as we spread kindness one story at a time…maybe even yours!  Carolina Kindness is sponsored by Maguire Law Firm.