Evan Kupersmith

"I’ve been doing Saint Baldricks for 9 years and I started doing it when I was six years old. What I do is I raise money and then I shave my head through the Saint Baldricks Foundation and all that money is donated to the the Saint Jude Hospital for cancer research. And the money goes towards helping cancer research and helping kids with cancer. I also donate my hair so that it can be made into wigs for cancer patients and I really like to do it because it’s not that much of a sacrifice for me but it makes a big difference for a lot of other people so I think it is a great thing to do."

Diane Capriola- Part Owner of Little Shop of Stories

“We have become such a part of the community that little shop is a place that families come not just to buy books, but to be a part of the community. So I have this story that I like to tell that on Sunday mornings I’ll come in really early before the shop opens and I’ll kind of sit in the dark to try and get work done before the shop opens. And every Sunday that I do that, I hear someone tugging at the door trying to get in and I hear the parent having the conversation with their little kid like, ‘Oh their not open, they don’t open until noon.’ And almost always the kid is upset and the mom has to reassure that, ‘they will go back, they will go back.’ But there was this one morning, just recently, that that happened and I heard a little kid tugging on the door. The mom said, ‘Oh no, not yet,’ and the child expressed disappointment about it. They might have even started crying and the mom said, ‘Yeah, it’s one of my favorite places too.’ And it was just such a powerful moment to know what we are to the community,”

Brianica Robinson

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"So basically, my student is doing a learning RX program and we work with people who have weakened cognitive skills. So maybe their attention might be weakened or their auditory processing skills or their auditory processing speed. So it helps with memory and helps people focus in on their attention and helps build those cognitive skills up. We do a lot of brain training but we do it in a fun way. So basically what exercising does for the body this does the same thing for the brain."