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		<title>\&#8217;Stand Up to Cancer\&#8217; telethon</title>
		<link>http://www.charactercafe.com/2010/06/stand-up-to-cancer-telethon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrities to hosts the return of  the \&#8221;Stand up to Cancer\&#8221; telethon.
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		<title>Officer Buys Groceries for Shoplifting Suspect</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Alexander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOZEMAN — Bozeman Police Officer Marek Ziegler was called to Van’s IGA last Friday night to check on a shoplifting report.
The 33-year-old officer has been on the Bozeman force for three years. He is a K-9 handler and works nights, from about 9 p.m. to 7 a.m.
When he got to the grocery store on North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morgan\&#8217;s Wonderland&#8230;.One of a kind park</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many parents of special-needs children await the opening of Morgan\&#8217;s Wonderland, the first large-scale amusement park designed specifically for people with special needs.
But as workers get ready for a Wednesday opening, another group is talking to park leaders about tapping into the park\&#8217;s potential: disabled veterans.
Park founder Gordon Hartman met Tuesday with a group of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Record Price at San Antonio Stock Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hackfeld</dc:creator>
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A boy from the heart of Texas with a fifth-place show goat and a tragic story inspired one of the most emotional and lucrative outcomes ever witnessed at a San Antonio Stock Show &#38; Rodeo auction, participants said.
Dustin Mangus, 10, of Mills County was injured in a December wreck that killed his father, who helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Man Donates His Kidney To A Stranger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Buchanan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It gives one hope to think that there are such extraordinary people out there that would be willing to give up so much of himself for a stranger.  This story was found on CBS Chicago.
He&#8217;s a hero; a man who put his own life at risk just to give someone else the chance to live. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only what is needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hackfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I participated in the peanut butter plan with Character Cafe and Emali Lane Salon here in San Antonio.  We took almost 300 peanut butter &#38; jelly sandwiches, 7 cases of water, blankets, gloves, etc to the homeless.  We had the opportunity to talk to many people that were in need of the items that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In My Own Backyard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hackfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so proud to live in San Antonio, Texas.  A couple of years ago the 60,000 sq foot Center for the Intrepid opened here in San Antonio.  It is a one-of-a-kind facility offering rehab for soldiers that have lost limbs and comfort and support for their families.  The center was funded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure Angel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccafe</dc:creator>
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As we know so many people are getting their homes foreclosed on these days.  Marilyn Mock of Rockwall, Tx showed up to an auction that was auctioning off foreclosed homes looking for a home for her son.  While there she spotted a lady against the wall with her head down.  She approached the lady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modeling for Humanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kjr0595</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young model named Kate Somers, normally used to high heels and glamour, left all that behind when she went to Africa for a month to build a school in Enelerai (a village in Kenya).  She also spear-headed a fund-raising campaign for Free The Children by bake sales, auctions, and &#8220;grilled cheese sales.&#8221; Her total profit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Wide&#8230;&#8230;your wallet</title>
		<link>http://www.charactercafe.com/2009/11/open-wide-your-wallet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hackfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story was on 20/20 in February of this year.  Diane Sawyer put faces to a very real problem.  Each story left you wanting to help and all had a common thread of a poverty situation that most of us will never know.
The article has a great list of how to help and [...]]]></description>
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