Lottery Tickets and Donations.

Article: Oregon bartender's tip turns out to be lottery ticket worth $17,500

Author: Associated Press

Published: October 06, 2013

            In the article “Oregon bartender's tip turns out to be lottery ticket worth $17,500” written by the Associated Press, they talk about a regular customer who tips Aurora Kephart in Keno tickets from the Oregon Lottery.  This time when the regular customer went to go tip her, he made her choose two tickets.  The first ticket was only five dollars but the next ticket would prove to be lucky winning 17, 500.   Kephart tried to give the man the ticket back but he refused.  He gave her the ticket and made her sign for it so that she could be the only one to claim the prize.  After her shift she claimed the money and gave the customer part of the winnings.  The article concludes with Kephart saying she as going to buy something she really needed (a couch) then save the rest of the money. 

            I cannot lie, I am a little jealous.  Not at the fact that she won 17, 500 or that her usually customer let her keep the money either.  More so in the fact that she actually won! Every time I buy a lottery ticket I ALWAYS lose!  It never seems to fail, but then again you would think that I would learn not to buy any more tickets after losing so much but I haven’t.   It is pretty awesome to get tipped in lottery tickets, even more awesome win they are winners! So congrats to picking two good tickets and for also not just taking the money right away.  Go buy yourself one amazing couch!

Article: Georgia Family Donates Cancelled Wedding's Reception to Homeless

Author: Christina NG

Published: September 23, 2013

In the article “Georgia Family Donates Cancelled Wedding's Reception to Homeless”, written by Christina NG she talks about Willie and Carol Fowler and their donation.  Forty days before their only daughter’s wedding, she cancels it.  Instead of losing the deposit and cancelling everything they decided to change the guest list to two hundred homeless people.  They called an organization called the Hosea Feed the Hungry.  They met with the organization to prove that it was not a joke and to work out the event.  They transported two hundred homeless individuals to Villa Christina for the event.  The Fowlers were involved in the entire event including their daughter.  They plan to do something like this on a yearly basis.  Christina NG then ends the article with a quote from Carol Fowler “"If you have cancelled an event, do not walk away. Pick up the phone and call your favorite charity and offer it to them”.

What can you do when your daughter cancels her wedding and you already have everything in place along with the deposits?  Well what the Fowlers did was amazing.  Feeding two hundred homeless people on a reception that was meant to be for your daughter’s wedding is admirable.  Most people would have turned around and got their money back.  But they didn’t and that is truly something special.  It was so inspirational that they plane to make this an annual thing.  To do that would go beyond far.  People always say that all of humanity is lost, but this article and family proves that wrong.