Grateful for kindness of others
The coronavirus pandemic has most of us weary, but there are times to be thankful also. Recently I have had two reasons to be thankful and they concern four youths in our community who helped me.
I live on Pacific Terrace and we have six trees on our median. The amount of leaf clean up is a real task for me as sometimes the leaves are about four inches deep. (Sometimes I wish they would “leave” me alone. Ha.) I asked for help from Connor Olson who mows the island grass. He said sure, and brought two others. Aidan Coe and Jackson Olson showed up with their rakes and all three worked all afternoon to help me. We hauled off four absolutely full pickup loads of leaves to be composted. The boys worked diligently and were so pleasant and helpful raking, packing and dumping the pickup loads.
LAS CRUCES When Connor Olson started the spring semester in January, he was one of about five students working in New Mexico State University’s Sam Steel Café, housed in Gerald Thomas Hall.
After the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and NMSU began operating under state health guidelines to reduce the risk of spreading the virus, Sam Steel Café temporarily closed its doors. Olson moved over to ACES Foods, a student-run food production company in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Under the supervision of program manager and instructor Whitney Blickem, students are helping produce orders of gelato and cookies, including 1,800 pecan sandies for Legacy Pecans.
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