They also commissioned artists to work on imaginative and opportune projects as the distribution of 250 unpainted garden gnomes. Sometimes arriving in care homes or shelter housing, the gnomes came with little paint boxes and post cards for people to share stories, or memories.
For people having their birthday during the lockdown, they created impromptu performances and concerts on their streets or back gardens and the volunteers brought birthday cake for those who would have otherwise spent their birthdays alone.
They created a radio show on Resonance FM, where the two elderly presenters and other participants phoned in every week to record their content. Aiming to reach even more people than their existing network, the show covered subjects such as dancing, keeping fit, or remembering stories.
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it s time now for the good stuff. cnn heroes also honored a pair of dogs helping our nation s veterans. you remember sully, president george h.w. bush s service dog until the end of his life. sully met tom last night on the red carpet. tom is a service dog for cnn hero chris stout. couple of snapshots of their encounter. these dogs were so adorable. john, this was your highlight, i feel, of the night. there were also celebrities there, but you were more excited about sully. totally. he was sitting in the crowd for much of the event. what do you do when you see a celebrity? you grab a selfie. a sully selfie. there s me, with sully in the background there. he seemed embarrassed to be in your selfie. he was totally psyched to mooes meet me. was he? yes. we should note that sully was there because george h.w. bush s
shepard: a member when this was, the last song had played, the lights were coming up and there were those people who had already rushed for the exit, heading out because their parents were going to be out front waiting for them, we ve all heard it. the first one out, meet me, i ll be at a specific meeting zone and we will get on the car and beat the traffic. it s late on a school night and we ve got to get you home, so i ll let you go to this concert become out quickly. there were some who did and those of the ones who are met outside with this explosion. there were others who were just caught off guard. i came around, boom, loudest noise. for the first ten seconds, we thought about it, we just walked with haste and then a gentleman said run! shepard: and run they did.