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LightGrams October 3, 2019 Volume 23, Number 32 Kade Lovell, a 9-year-old boy from Minnesota started with a pack of runners aiming to finish a 5 kilometer race. Starting at the same time were other runners, all adults, who were running a longer 10k course. Somewhere along the way Kade missed his turn, and ended…
LightGrams September 26, 2019 Volume 23, Number 31 Credit the unnamed woman with having compassion. While driving down the road she saw an injured bobcat. She stopped, picked up the wounded animal, and placed it inside her SUV. In that same SUV was her child, lovingly strapped into a child seat. Officials from the Colorado…
LightGrams September 19, 2019 Volume 23, Number 30 Our son took me on a trip to Colorado last month, my first time to visit that state. Among the amazing sights I saw was a family of bighorn sheep. They blended in well with their background, and were hard to spot. But seeing these animals deftly…
LightGrams August 29, 2019 Volume 23, Number 28 Interest in religion has been on a sharp decline in England for the past several decades. One survey shows that only about 10% of those who identify as being Christians of any kind attend services at least once per month (it’s about 43% in the U.S.). Such…
LightGrams August 1, 2019 Volume 23, Number 27 Four men approached the woman in a wheelchair. One of them looked quite distinctive with his head shaved (except for the tall spikes running down the middle of his scalp). As they surrounded her, others might have wondered, “What are they up to?” They didn’t have to…
LightGrams July 18, 2019 Volume 23, Number 26 Three things stood out to Kim Draper as she looked at the envelope left in her mailbox. The most obvious was that it was addressed to someone else; but then she saw that the address was for the house in which she lives. The second fact was…
LightGrams July 11, 2019 Volume 23, Number 2 Kensli Davis of Milledgeville, Georgia was about to celebrate her 25th birthday. To make the celebration complete, her mother placed an order for a nice decorated cake. To make the cake personal, she asked that it be decorated with images from Moana, the 2016 Disney animated movie…
LightGrams July 4, 2019 Volume 23, Number 2 It was on this day 243 years ago that representatives of the 13 colonies of the New World gathered at the State House of Pennsylvania. Two days earlier a resolution was unanimously passed to declare that these colonies were breaking away from the British Empire. On July…
LightGrams June 27, 2019 Volume 23, Number 23 Are piggy banks as popular as they once were? Those cute little pigs, made of glass or ceramic, had a slot in the top of their backs into which pennies, nickels, and dimes were dropped. Many a child has been taught the virtue of savings and thrift…
LightGrams June 20, 2019 Volume 23, Number 22 A news story about a house break-in is nothing new. Sadly, such events are common in our world. But the story Nate Roman told – Have you heard this one before? On May 15 Nate returned to his home in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He immediately knew someone had…