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Kids make a Difference
KIDS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
By Maggie Eilermann
After third-grader Katie Stagliano came home with a cabbage she got
from a cabbage growing program, it began to grow at a swift pace. Soon,
it reached a weight of forty pounds. Katie decided to donate the
enormous cabbage to a soup kitchen, where it would feed many people.
The cabbage helped feed almost three hundred people. Katie wanted to
take a step forward, so “Katie’s Krops” was born. With forty-nine gardens
in twenty-two states, “Katie’s Krops” donates thousands of pounds of
produce each year to different organizations. If a forty-pound cabbage
fed three hundred people, imagine how many people were fed because
of “Katie’s Krops.” And to think all this happened because of a girl with a
big cabbage and even bigger dreams.
KAYLEIGH CRIMMINS HELPS K-9 POLICE DOGS STAY SAFE
By Franchesca Carapella
In Chesapeake, Virginia, an eight-year old girl named Kayleigh
Crimmins loved to be around police dogs and watch her dad train
them for police work. Kayleigh’s dad told her about how K-9s have
dangerous jobs and that they have nothing to protect themselves
against bullets, dangerous gases, and a heat. So Kayleigh got to
work. She took all of her favorite toys, t-shirts, and stickers and
sold them on ‘’Craigslist.’’ Kayleigh then told her friends and family
how she wanted to buy safety equipment for K-9s, to help protect
them from dangerous obstacles they might run into on their job.
So they finally agreed to help her. At one of the meetings she
went to, Kayleigh received a standing ovation from the city
council. With the donations of cash she received, Kayleigh then
bought heat alarms for patrol cars, and bulletproof vests that have
saved many K-9 lives. Kayleigh, who also sells toys donated by
friends, as well as t-shirts and stickers, has made similar
donations to K-9 units in Maryland and North Carolina.