Smiley Anders for August 5, 2008
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Kristie Carline, of Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge, says this happened at Camp Care, a weeklong summer day camp for children with cancer and their siblings:
“One afternoon the children were treated to a day of bowling. At the bowling alley, they decided to play arcade games and collect tickets for those ‘trinket prizes’ that as children we all thought were worth a million dollars.
“One of our campers, 9-year-old Mikey Conger, has been battling leukemia for quite some time. He is recovering, but it is sometimes hard for him to walk and participate in the activities at the same speed as the other campers.
“Mikey spotted a shiny purple and gold LSU football in the prize cabinet that he desperately wanted.
“He is a huge fan of LSU football, and was ‘adopted’ by one of the players, Ciron Black, during the BCS championship game. (Ciron wrote Mikey’s name on his uniform.)
“The campers knew how badly Mikey wanted that football. So, as a surprise to him, they pooled all of their tickets (more than 3,000) to ‘purchase’ the football for him.
“Can you imagine how difficult it was for some of these children to give up their own tickets, for prizes they themselves would love to have, in order to make Mikey happy?
“They have truly learned a lesson in compassion. …”
Weighty topic
Thomas Gaylor, our Georgia correspondent, says our recent mention of weight-loss efforts reminded him of a fellow office worker who moonlighted as a weight-loss instructor:
“She lost 900 pounds — 75 pounds 12 times.”
Which reminds me
A reader says you know you’re in Louisiana when you go into a health club and see the treadmills lined up in front of four TVs — and three of them are tuned to The Food Network.
Washed away?
Nancy A. Boudreaux has a theory about why we saw so few stinging caterpillars this spring.
She thinks frequent thunderstorms did them in:
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