Lay Your Own Extraordinary Hardwood Floor
It's hard to beat the natural beauty, warmth and durability of a hardwood floor. A well-laid floor will last for a century or more and can be rejuvenated by resanding and finishing to look brand new. A real wood floor isn't cheap, but neither is ... [... more]
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Make Your Mark: Canadian Blood Services
In June of 2008, Canadian Blood Services launched a new website called http://thankyourdonor.ca as a way for blood recipients to express their thanks to donors through stories, photos, or videos. The goal of the website is to show people how ... [... more]
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Make it Matter: A Death and a Life
Virginia Cervasio never saw it coming. Her son Angelo, 24, rarely drank, never used drugs, and didn't seem depressed. An Air Force veteran, Angelo loved riding his motorcycle and had applied to join the police force near his hometown in southwest ... [... more]
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Make Your Mark: The Second Wind Fund
In 2002, four students from Green Mountain High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, committed suicide in just a nine-month period of time. Not only did sadness run deep throughout the high school community, but also throughout the community at ... [... more]
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Make Your Mark: The Gerstman Family
In 1970, tragedy struck the Gerstman family when Harvey and Carol Gerstman's daughter, Lisa Beth, was killed in a summer camp bus accident. Because camp had been such a joy in Lisa Beth's life, the Gerstmans knew they wanted to start a foundation ... [... more]
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Make It Matter: Fishing as an Alternative to Drugs
And after 26 years of police work, much of it in antidrug and antigang programs in the public schools, Moody, 52, knows that many kids aren't so lucky. So in 1991, he decided to do something about it. He invited small groups of kids to spend ... [... more]
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Meet Three People Who Are Making a Difference
From Reader's Digest Christopher Thomas was an aspiring writer by night and a corporate trainer at JPMorgan Chase by day when he noticed he was always tired, frequently needed to urinate, and was losing weight fast-40 pounds in just four months. ... [... more]
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Make it Matter: The Producers
A mortgage banker, Chip Paillex had never planted so much as a window box until he moved to rural Pittstown, New Jersey, seven years ago. Surrounded by working farms, he quickly caught the grow-it-yourself bug and leased a 30-by-30-foot plot. One ... [... more]
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Make Your Mark: Deedra Scherm
Murietta, CA-- Deedra Scherm is a mom who wants to make a difference. When pregnant with her first child, Scherm was diagnosed with a potentially fatal pregnancy-related illness. When told her condition had a thirty-three percent chance of ... [... more]
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Make Your Mark: Mandy Sydo
Mandy knew Jackie Hodgkins from church in the U.S. and knew that Jackie ran an orphanage, Welcome Home Ministries Africa, in Uganda. Mandy had always helped Jackie gather supplies for the children in the orphanage. So when Jackie returned to the ... [... more]
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Take Action to Reduce Teen Driving Deaths
From Reader's Digest What can you do to help reduce the number of teen driving deaths in your state? Plenty! Start by spelling out the danger to your kids. Get tough at home by making sure your teen always wears a seat belt and doesn't drive late ... [... more]
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Make It Matter
Every month for ten months, Reader's Digest will choose one individual whose story of giving back serves as an inspiration to others. For each story, the Reader's Digest Foundation will donate $100,000 to a nonprofit organization that is ... [... more]
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