Hi,

My name is Alex and I am in a leadership program at school and whenever someone is feeling down or has noone to hang out with, I hang out with them.  And that is my random act of kindness.

Have a rockin year!
Alex :-)

I just wanted to let you know about a lovely act of kindness that happend on Saturday January 26th at the Victoria Hospital.

I was a clerk on one of the medical wards and on Saturday when a woman stepped off the elevators and approached my desk for information. She carried a bouquet of balloons and a package of flowers in her arms. She asked fora room number to visit a friend and when I told her she said thank youand handed me the package of flowers saying " theses are for you". I was in shockand she quickly moved off down the hall. I peaked into the package and found six pink long stem roses inside!

I at once thought of you and the random act of kindness on your station. Ialso thought of my best friends mother who is a palliative patient here and how she would love the smell of them. I went down the hall to the patients roomand told that lovely lady thank you so much for those beautiful flowersand that they were going to my friends ill mother on the other ward and how much she loved the smell of fresh flowers.

I hope she hears about this on the radio, because I still want to cry about how a stranger touched my heart and gave such joy to a another very ill person.

Jan Price
Day surgery
Victoria General Hospital

Hi there,

I was returning a load of buffalo board from our new home, we have been renovating all summer and my husband and his friend loaded up about 30 big sheets of buffalo board on the back of our ¾ ton truck. Unfortunately they didn't put up the tail gate and when I was pulling away from a red light on Main Street by the Perimeter, right by the West St Paul Municipal office, the entire load flew off the back of the truck in the middle of the highway!

I quickly pulled over and as all kinds of trucks and cars pulled around me and continued on their way, I was struggling to drag the boards off the highway so they wouldn't get damaged, and a man out for a motorcycle ride going towards Selkirk did a U-turn and came back, took off his jacket and helmet and helped me return all the wood to the back of our truck.

I was absolutely amazed this kind stranger would take time to stop and do all this heavy lifting, and I could not be more grateful...he said he was out for a pleasure ride, and I want to say thank you so much, he restored my faith in good people out there....especially when about 10 or 15 cars gave me glares as they worked there way around me and my mess.

Thank you so much kind stranger!!!

Just over 2 years ago I was driving down Moray on my way to visit my boyfriend when another car ran a red light. I saw them in time to swerve but couldn't avoid them entirely. I smashed into the back end of their car (I was later told if I hadn't swerved, the passenger in the other car would have been killed because they were going 20 or 30 over the speed limit) and our cars stuck together spinning a 180. My chest hit the steering wheel and I was splashed with liquid (which I, in my disoriented state of mind, thought was gas but later was told was coolant and washer fluid) and my car started smoking. I couldn't get the keys out of the ignition and I was convinced that the cars were going to blow up. I grabbed my cell phone and got out of the car trying to yell for the people in the other car to get out before they blew up. But the impact of the steering wheel had hurt my lungs so I couldn't actually get a breath big enough to do more than whisper. I staggered over to the sidewalk where I started to fall over. Suddenly a woman was beside me and I think she stopped me from full-out hitting the cement. I called my boyfriend and said I'd had an accident and that he had to come take me home because my car was totaled. I then tried to call home but the phone line was busy. I was in the middle of dialing my brother's cell phone when my battery died. By that time, I was in pain and finding it very difficult to breathe. Not to mention I was terrified my parents would be mad that I'd totaled their car and that I couldn't even get ahold of them to tell them. That was when I started to cry. The fantastic lady (who told me her name but I regretfully cant remember it) knelt down beside me and told me I could use her cell phone, and that the ambulance was on its way and would be there momentarily. I hadn't even thought of calling for medical help. (It was a good thing she was there because I clearly wasn't thinking straight). She stayed with me until the fire trucks turned up and the firemen started assessing my injuries. She also gave her report to the police (she had seen the accident) and was a witness when the other driver tried to blame the accident on me. This wonderful lady saved me that day. I never would have thought of calling an ambulance for myself, she comforted me, she lent me her phone, and she was my witness. I wanted to thank her and the police said they would give me her name but they never did. I know she lives (or did) somewhere near Moray and Bruce. If anyone knows her, please tell her thank-you for me! (Or better yet get her to contact me so I can thank her myself!)

Thank you thank you thank you!!

Constance