Man Who Broke into School to Make Shelter for Dozens Stranded, Gets Surprise Visit from the Buffalo Bills

These are our Carolina Kindness stories this week!

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Remember the guy who broke into a school near buffalo last month to shelter 24 people stranded in a blizzard?  The Buffalo Bills just thanked him by giving him two tickets to the Super Bowl. Two days before Christmas, a 27-year-old Jay Withey got stranded near Buffalo, New York during the big blizzard.  He smashed a window to get in, then went back out in the storm rounded up 24 more people who were stranded on the road and brought them all back.  He pried open a door to the kitchen to get people food, and found blankets in the nurse’s office to keep everyone warm.  They were stuck there for about 24 hours.   Before they left, he wrote a note apologizing for the break-in.  But cops eventually tracked him down to THANK him for it.  They said he probably saved a lot of lives  Former Bills running back Thurman Thomas showed up with the tickets to surprise him.

The South Carolina Humane Education Society is teaming up with teachers and guidance counselors across the nation to help help understand how to create a more humane world now and in the future  NHES has already partnered with a local therapy dog handler to elementary students at Catawba Trail Elementary in Elgin, South Carolina.  Students learn about the needs and feelings of animals, the importance of animal adoption, and the tenets of responsible animal ownership. Youth who are in elementary school will be the citizens to implement solutions over the next 10-20 years.  Interested in learning more.  Email NHES: education@nhes.org.

A family from Florida just got their dog back four years after they had to give him to a shelter.  His name is cubby.  He was picked up by a shelter in New York and scanned for a microchip.  They discovered he had been put up for adoption by a family in Florida in 2019.   The family was moving away and couldn’t take him along. but as it turns out they were moving back and cubby is headed home to them.  No one knows how he ended up in New York.  He’d obviously been living on his own for a while.