The Editor,
There's a great Anne Murray song called, A Little Good News, with the words, "There's the local newspaper rolled up in a rubber band - one more sad story, is one more than I can stand." It's about how wonderful it would be to pick up the paper and for there to be only good stories.
Well, when I picked up the Richmond News, and read it front to back, I was truly struck by all the "good" stories. There was the heartwarming story about Zach Wilkinson, who helped to save and reunite a family of ducks, a security guard who delivered a baby at Aberdeen Mall, another about students at Mitchell School raising awareness about children in Third World countries, and Craig Widsten, who would like to transfer the many wild rabbits in Richmond to his seven acre island, and then the one about the City of Richmond and local schools adopting a water waste program. People stepping up . . going above and beyond.
With all the bad news of late - with all the animal abuse stories, the stories of corruption, murders, etc. etc. . . . I was truly starting to wonder about our society. What's wrong with people?
I only saw things as getting worse.
So, a huge thank-you to Zach, and the security guard, and Mitchell school, and Craig Widsten . . . and the City of Richmond, and to everyone else out there doing things like this that don't get reported - thank you. You've renewed my faith, and I needed it. Yes, there are bad people out there, but, wow, there are so many fantastic people too. And a lot of them live in my city!
In the Anne Murray song, she also wishes the newspaper would read, "Not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say." You guys did one better. You found a whole bunch of good things to print! Thank you,
Trudy Howard
Richmond
