late last month a woman went into the city hall building in iowa city, iowa, and paid her water bill. then she paid the water bills for 17 other people in iowa city. according to the iowa city "press citizen," that one anonymous donor forked over $1,640 to pay off delinquent balances for 17 other local water accounts. 17 families who hadn't been able to pay their water bill who were facing having no running water for the thanksgiving holiday if they hadn't lost it already. 11 of those accounts already had had their water turned off. remaining six were scheduled to be shut down by the end of that day. last week in san jose, california, maria vargas, battling stage 4 cancer, discovered somebody left a bag of avocados on her doorstep. inside the bag of avocados she found also a check for $10,000 from an anonymous donor. he daughter told kntv in the bay