A small case of Valentine's Day candy was purchased at a local shop. The cashier graciously agreed to help and hand the V-day candies out to some of the many needy kids here in the area. Decimated by an unfortunate series of corporate & industrial affairs and all but left for abandoned, Johnstown PA is one of the US's poorest cities- if not the poorest.

Downtrodden is common on the common, and one can't help but to wonder what the best thing for a town like this might be.

I know; With a population of 17,000, we shouldn't need more than Approx. 5,000 Valentine's Day Pez!

Kidding, of course.

As would be expected, considering its limited resources and per-capita poverty levels, social programs are desperately lacking in the city of Johnstown, but let me put this out there before I go off on another tangent;

2 things actually;

1. A moral and ethical conversation about candy and accounting led to a conversation about how our parents always made the holidays special. It reminded us that a dollar could make a miracle in the form of a Little Debbie snack cake. Or Valentine's Day Pez. Or Heck, Red Velvet Oreos since we're plugging away here. I'm here all week. Pez certainly doesn't qualify as a food group (anymore) to most of us, but it can give children hope and faith in humanity. Once that's gone...

And "The Other Thing":

2. Consider that every dollar is considered when you donate to End Child Hunger. Why? Because as one charity debates Pez versus stacking the pantry, others brandish befuddling business books, bilking billions- badly belying buttresses of bank befittingly believed to be backing our boys and belles... For big bonuses.

Pick Salads, Not Salaries.
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