People Helping People is the motto of this town and it lives up to it for sure. I started the day a little groggy and Peter, who works at a local restaurant noticed my fuzziness and provided a free coffee with my breakfast sandwich. It really hit the spot. Low on flyers I hand out, Sandy from a local printing shop gave me enough free copies for a few days. This sort of hospitality happened all day long. What a gracious community.
Deputy Fire Chief Andrew Bencomo was thrilled to see The Kindness Bicycle pull up to the Front door of his Firehouse. He and I talked about reaching kids at an early age with solid messages. He is training for a marathon and I gave him advice on not skipping any of the long training runs as I did several years ago. Ouch!
The first person I met heading into Police Headquarters was Sandy, who works for the Las Cruces Police Department. She was at Ground Zero as a Chaplain for 9 months and offered her moral support as The Kindness Bicycle Ride for Heroes ends at Firehouse 10 in Ground Zero.
Police Chief Richard Williams took the time out of his busy day to meet with me. He is a big supporter of getting a strong message to kids. He gave me his words of support and a Police department patch and pin. We had a great visit talking about his town.
A huge One Million Acts Of Kindness thank you to Steve Ramirez and Robin Zielinski, Las Cruces Sun-News reporter and photographer for the great interview.
KRWG reporter Tiffany interviewed me in the late afternoon for the local University television station.
Thank you to Tom Townsend a Las Cruces for the inspiring words.
Las Cruces is all about People Helping People…and with a view like the photo above, from Wikipedia, how can you not visit this city.
Thank you to everyone for making my visit to Las Cruces a great one.
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Bogart is my travel companion on The Kindness Bus Tour for the next ten years. We will be on the road traveling to campuses across the country. Bogart is a eight year old Boston Terrier. He is a great people dog... he loves meeting new people. I am Bogart's fourth owner in his short 8 years of life... Not because of him but because his three previous owner's lifestyles changed after they took him in... Lucky for me!! Bogart is the luckiest, most spoiled dog on the face of the earth. He loves the bus and he loves to travel. Please come and visit him when we are on your campus.
The Blue Bird Corporation donated this amazing bus to One Million Acts of Kindness, allowing us the continue this initiative. It has been painted to closely resemble the original Kindness Bus. It will last well beyond the ten years of this mission. A very big thank you to Blue Bird from Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
The original Kindness bus has been donated to a professor at Virginia Tech who will use it on campus and at schools in the Blacksburg area. The Kindness Bus will continue to inspire and comfort residents, students and visitors in that area for years to come.
One Million Acts Of Kindness is a goal. A goal for each person to individually perform One Million Acts Of Kindness in their life. Can you imagine a greater goal for one's life? It is a constant mind-set of kindness every day of your life for the next fifty-five years. Doing for others and kindness in your heart for everyone. It is my wish that you will dedicate your life to a charity... finding the passion in your heart for something or someone in need.
As a father of three college age kids I am concerned for the world in which all kids will live. A great way to create a safer, more caring world is for everyone to start their lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness. So I bought a bus, had about sixty family members, friends and neighbors help paint it and began a ten year journey with my Boston Terrier, Bogart, to college campuses across the country hoping to convince as many of you as possible about this much needed movement for this world. I love you guys too much to sit back and not do anything about this. Let's start a kindness movement in this country today to change the direction this world is headed!! You are the change that this world needs.