Positive news was much appreciated

With COVID-19 anxiety and election overload, it was very pleasant to open the October 31 edition of the Yuma Sun to discover not one, but two, feel good stories on the front page.

Sydney Williams deserves recognition and a huge THANK YOU from Yuma Regional Medical Center for caring for the hospitalized children who are unable to fully participate in Halloween activities. To give goodie bags once is a paying-it-forward idea that I hope others will copy, but Sydney has been thinking of others since she was only three years old. That’s truly remarkable! It’s also fitting that her Mom was included in the picture because it seems evident that Mom has also been supporting, enabling and teaching Sydney to be the loving, caring young woman she is becoming. I feel certain that she will find ways to assert her leadership skills as she enters college next year.

The second article on the front page celebrated a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation which enabled Centennial Middle School ELA teacher Rachael Baker to create a library of over 100 books which her students can check out to read on their own. Her students will learn that reading can not only inform and educate, but it can also be entertaining. Through books students can broaden their horizons, visit other counties, experience different cultures and open their minds to the differences and similarities between people all over the world.

Well done, Yuma Sun!

You did it again with the Thanksgiving pictures in today’s paper, so I want to share our Thanksgiving turkey decoration. It makes me smile every year when we search for our fall decorations.

Enjoy!

SANDRA THIESEN

Yuma