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In Fort Dodge, good things keep happening

Acts of kindness occur amid pandemic

Good things are happening locally in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying economic fallout.

For an example, look no farther than the four Manson Northwest Webster Community School District students who raised just over $1,000 for Almost Home Humane Society of North Central Iowa. Bianca Aquino, Peyton Davis, Josie Eldal, and Addie McCullough launched a fundraising effort as part of their project for the Iowa Technology and Education Connection’s spring tech fair, which has been canceled. The project was to create a website to highlight an interest and a goal. They chose the Humane Society and dubbed their initiative A Cause for Paws.

They started with a goal of raising $200. They ended up raising $1,048.39.

Rachel Buchanan, the Almost Home shelter manager, has seen kids raise a couple hundred bucks at a time for the facility. She was impressed by what the girls accomplished, calling their success ”absolutely insane.”

For another example of good things locally, recall that Hy-Vee teamed up with the United Way of Greater Fort Dodge and a couple dozen volunteers to distribute an early taste of that summertime favorite, watermelon. The supermarket received 2,000 watermelons from SOL Melons, of Florida. The volunteers handed them out for free Tuesday morning as vehicles rolled into the supermaket’s parking lot and got into special drive-thru lanes.

Today at 11:30 a.m. Fort Dodge residents will see another example of something good happening when the staff at ShinyTop Brewing hands out 500 free spaghetti dinners. The brewery teamed up with Frontier Mortgage, Kesterson Realty, Snell Settlement, Dows Chemical, Fort and Schlegel CPA PC, L&M Ethanol, Crimmins Law Office, Daniel Tire Co, Nins Custom Creations and Troy Schroeder Photography (Memories In Focus) to make the free meals possible.

These developments show that kindness thrives in the Fort Dodge area even when things seem gloomy.

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