by Joey Crotty | Oct 26, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Uncategorized, Ways to Play, Youth
By Jon Ramer The Rainier Vista Boys and Girls Club needs you. Dedicated school chef Patrice Freeman shops the sales to feed her hungry troupe, but she has a dream, to feed her boys and girls with fresh fruit and vegetables from a bountiful school garden. She...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 26, 2012 | Puget Sound Community School, Stories of Compassion, Uncategorized, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth
Submitted by What’s Good 206 Strong academics are a byproduct of a good school. That’s the model for Puget Sound Community School, which operates on the premise that students learn best when they are supported in their passions. And yes, they do take...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 26, 2012 | Stories of Compassion, Uncategorized, Ways to Play, Youth
By Martha Hopler As I head to the home of J. I feel a sense of urgency today is the day. Today is the day I have waited for, for some time. I have waited for the moment she is ready to head to re-hab. I am very aware of the choices I have made to allow her to...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 23, 2012 | Stories of Compassion
By Alanna Gunne Lying in his bed, he listened to the sounds of life. He could smell the pot roast cooking in the kitchen and hear his housemates moving through the halls. A movie was playing on his VCR and he was comfortable. He had not envisioned his life this...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 22, 2012 | Education - Schools, Partners, Stories of Compassion, United Way, Ways to Play
Submitted by Kizzie Funkhouser We are fellow volunteers that serve those in need, Farmers of hope, we’re planting the seeds – Weeding out obstacles when lives’ pathways are blocked. Standing together, our diverse strands, woven to stalks Of...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 21, 2012 | Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play
By Lee Campbell There was a man named Joe Earl. He was born in 1911 in a small town near the Mississippi River. His father died of an unspecified illness when he was a toddler. His mother, Mollie Bodi, remarried and had two daughters, Ida Mae and Delores. Mollie’s...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 17, 2012 | Compassionate Seattle, Education - Schools, Faith and Interfaith, Leagues, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth
Submitted by What’s Good 206 Why should you care about gun violence? “It has no race, no creed, no age barriers. If it hasn’t affected you yet, it will if it continues.” Stark words from one man interviewed in this array of community voices...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 16, 2012 | Compassionate Seattle, Education - Schools, Leagues, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth
Submitted by What’s Good 206 Build more compassionate schools by combining students of different ages in the classroom, and fully integrating schools, says a 17-year-old high school senior who has written a book advocating overhaul of the educational system. In...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 15, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth
Submitted by What’s Good 206 It was a chance encounter with a homeless man that that led University of Washington student Daniel Nguyen to start Operation Compassion last year. It began when an apparently homeless man, a regular Daniel had seen for weeks,...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 9, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, United Way, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206
Submitted by What’s Good ‘206’? Some painted walls, others cleaned a preschool inside and out. Others pulled yard cleanup duty. All told, there were more than 12,000 of them — people who came out on Sept. 21, United Way of King County’s...