Posts from November 2025

Will Give Food For Forgiveness

LightGramsNovember 20, 2025Volume 29, Number 37 Chickasha, a small city in Oklahoma, is renewing a drive this year to encourage people to give food to their local food bank. For a few weeks, people may have some or all of their traffic or municipal fines forgiven by bringing in nonperishable foods. According to the city’s…

Returning People’s Hearts

LightGramsNovember 13, 2025Volume 29, Number 36 Michael Frerichs is the State Treasurer for Illinois. That may seem like a cold and heartless job, but Frerichs has taken on a mission that is actually heartwarming. Part of his responsibility is receiving the contents of abandoned bank safety deposit boxes and trying to reunite them with their…

The World’s Longest Name

LightGramsNovember 6, 2025Volume 29, Number 35 Laurence Watkins is like a lot of other people in the world; he wanted to have his name appear in the Guinness Book of World Records. He devoted much time reading through the book, trying to find an area in which he could excel all others. It was in…