Taking note of kindness since 2007.

The Thomas County Community Foundation is once again initiating the Thomas County effort for the National Random Acts of Kindness Week in 2010. This week will take place February 14-20, 2010. We encourage all Thomas County citizens and businesses to go the extra mile to perform random acts of kindness for your fellow neighbors.

Contact the TCCF if you would like to report your act of kindness or a positive act of another. We would like to reward the good deeds in our community at the Random Acts of Kindness Open House at 10 a.m. on Friday, February 20, at the Thomas County Office Complex.

www.actsofkindness.org

Ideas for Kindness:

- Deliver fresh-baked cookies to city workers. - Collect goods for a food bank. - Surprise your secretary with flowers. - Merchants can donate a percentage of receipts for the week to a special cause. - Bring coworkers or classmates a special treat. - Sing at a nursing home. - Be a good neighbor. Take over a baked treat or stop by to say "hello". - Teachers can send a note home to parents telling them about something their child did well. - Volunteer to read to students in the classroom. - Give blood. - Give another driver your parking spot. - Donate time at a senior center. - Let your staff leave work an hour early or take a long lunch hour. - Have a clean-up party in the park. - Pay for the person behind you in the movie line. - Invite someone new over for dinner. - As you go about your day, pick up trash. - Donate your childrens' old books to a day care or school.