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 We all know someone who in our opinion has gone
above and beyond to be helpful during the past several weeks, and we
want to acknowledge as many of those people as we possibly can.
Of course our frontline workers, the doctors, nurses, CNA’s, the
paramedics and fire and rescue and our law enforcement officers are
those who are doing their jobs under stressful situations and
increased risk to personal health. Those people certainly deserve to
be recognized and if someone has impacted you personally and you
wish to share, we want to hear from you.
There are others too that have had a positive impact. Those who work
in our local grocery stores, coming to work each day knowing they
have a job to do and that they may be putting themselves in harm’s
way to get it done makes them a hero as well.
We know there are groups, churches, organizations that are doing
remarkable things that help those in need in the community and are
also helping keep our local restaurants in business. Those people
are our heroes as are the people who work in those restaurants.
We think about the neighbors who are just checking in on each other,
the dozens of people who have put messages to our postal workers on
their windows and sidewalks, thanking them and urging them to stay
safe. Those people are heroes, and if one of them has had an impact
on you and you wish to share that, we want to hear from you too.
Those postal workers who again come to work each day knowing that
they will encounter people and one of those people could be a
carrier for the coronavirus deserve to be thanked.
Others that come to mind, the teachers who are going above and
beyond to stay in touch with their students and are trying their
best to help parents keep their child’s learning on track during
this time are also heroes. We encourage you
to think about the people around you, it may be a friend or
neighbor, it may be your pharmacist or the pizza delivery guy, but
most of us can name at least one person whom we know or have heard
about doing something above and beyond to make life a little better
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LDN is asking that you send the name of the person, group, or
business that you would like to send a few words of praise for to us
for publication in the magazine. Include a few words about why you
want to recognize this person, pair or group, and please be sure to
give us your name too.
If you have a photo you want to send along as well, that would also
be welcomed.
Make those submissions to LDN via our email address
ldneditor@lincolndaily
news.com
or use the “send message” personal messaging system on our Facebook
page.
It doesn’t matter if the same person or organization is submitted
multiple times, we want all that we can get. You can also send
multiple submissions if there are multiple people you wish to
acknowledge.
In addition to these short tributes, the magazine will include
re-prints of photos and stories that LDN has run over the past few
weeks, and special photos and coverage that has not and will not be
published in our daily editions.
A comment made on Friday, April 24th by New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo hit home. Paraphrased, he said that he had learned a lesson
from his grandmother. She had told him that when times are good it
is easy for people to act nice and be perceived as nice. But when
times are tough and people are still nice, those are the truly nice
people.
Our community is full of those truly nice people and we want to make
sure they know how much they are appreciated. We hope you feel the
same way!
[Nila Smith]
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