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Question of the Day By MARY DIVINE - Associated Press - Saturday, February 13, 2021
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - For a man who claims to be terrible with names, Bryan Ring seemed to have no trouble last week at the homeless encampment near Sheridan Memorial Park in Minneapolis.
“Hey, Robert,” he said to a man headed to the camp’s portable toilet while wearing just one boot. “How are you doing? Get that boot on!”
He teased Angel Prince about spraining her thumb. “Whatcha been doin’, Angel? Beating up one of the guys in camp again?”
Man is ‘godsend’ to people living in Minneapolis homeless camps
“Everybody has their reason for why they are out there,” says Bryan Ring. “I, for one, have never judged nobody.”
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Bryan Ring, of Stillwater, Minn., delivers winter clothing, hygiene supplies and food to people in a northeast Minneapolis homeless encampment on Jan. 27, 2021. Scott Takushi / St. Paul Pioneer Press
MINNEAPOLIS For a man who claims to be terrible with names, Bryan Ring seemed to have no trouble last week at the homeless encampment near Sheridan Memorial Park in Minneapolis.
“Hey, Robert,” he said to a man headed to the camp’s portable toilet while wearing just one boot. “How are you doing? Get that boot on!”
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Because they re working in essential industries, they must physically show up at their jobs every day, despite the risk of contracting COVID-19, the deadly virus that has killed more than 300,000 people in the U.S. More than 18 million have been infected.
To lift their spirits, Na, whose spouse is a third-year resident at a hospital in Sacramento, Calif., sent gifts filled with homemade masks to droves of workers throughout the community.
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Elementary school children from Northern California helped military wife Christy Hanbyul Na make over 100 decorated masks for front-line workers, Fox News reported.
Over the course of the pandemic, Na taught herself how to sew face masks at home, according to Fox News. Na then came up with the idea to send gifts filled with candy, a thank you card, and a mask to military personnel, health care workers, delivery drivers, and other front-line workers, Fox News reported. She called the effort the “frontline superhero mask project.”
To help accomplish her mission, Na got the help from elementary school students from Scandia Elementary School and Travis Elementary School, according to Fox News. The students decorated more than 100 of Na’s homemade masks to be gifted to the American heroes fighting the virus, Fox News reported.