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condolences, can we put a checkmark next to that task on our list? Maybe we can. I don’t know the best answer. Never should the honest intent of someone’s generosity ever be questioned. I hope it doesn’t always take a tragedy to spur the good- ness inside us. I think that is too often the case, though. It truly does take effort and kind- ness to reach out to someone in their hours of darkness and despair. But it is probably more meaningful to reach out every day, when nobody is watching. I have neighbors who, every day, show some kind of empathy and kindness to my family. They are never asked and are rarely thanked, yet they do it just the same. They gather my horses off the road and run them back in the pasture and shut the gate. They drop off a loaf of bread. They mow my lawn when my mower breaks down. They ask about my kids. They praise and congratulate me when some- thing goes right for me. They tell me when I’m wrong. It comes from doing that right thing that nobody else knows or perhaps cares about. As the nation remembered the darkness, despair and heroism of Sept. 11, 2001, I was compelled to do some deep thinking. Could it be that there’s more value in making the choice to do the right and kind and generous thing than the actual act itself? I think maybe the true value is probably not in the reward we may expect as a result of being kind – the thank you note, the gold star, the pat on the back or the hug. The real value and growth in charac- ter probably comes and goes without so much as a nod

FFA kids and their livestock projects, donated more than $63,000 as Sean’s steer was bought and sold 13 times. The outpouring of kindness and generosity was overwhelming as people supported with dona- tions large and small, giving and supporting the healing as best as they knew how. But, what happens now? Now that we’ve donated and given and offered genuine

At the completion of the mar- ket animal sale on the last day of the fair, the steer would be auctioned off. In a county where the vast majority of capital is gener- ated by agriculture, families and small businesses who had already generously donated hundreds of thousands of dol- lars to support 339 4-H and

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