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CommunityBruins players made their annual Halloween visit to patients at Boston Children's Hospital, dressed as characters from Toy Story.
Verified · Boston 25 News
CommunityAhead of their Oct. 3 game, Cougs Care and TCU supporters gathered about 650 books plus cash and supplies for Literacy United, which teaches children who struggle with reading.
Verified · Fort Worth Report
CommunityThe Family Support Center gave out free winter coats and Halloween costumes for children from newborns to teens, and plans another costume giveaway on October 21.
Verified · KSL
AnimalsTwo young males, Mkuu and Viazi, arrived from Tampa under a Species Survival Plan. They are the first southern white rhinos at the zoo in 130 years.
Verified · The Denver Post
AnimalsArizona Game and Fish set 18 captive-bred ferrets loose near Seligman and six more at Garland Prairie. The same day, Phoenix Zoo announced a record 34 kits.
Verified · Arizona's Family (AZFamily)
CommunityEvening in the End Zone, held at Atlanta's College Football Hall of Fame, funds eyeglasses and eye surgeries. Delta and Kia added surprise gifts at the end of the night.
Verified · Cobb Courier
CommunityAt Saturday's race, finishers included a runner who had lost 144 pounds, a breast cancer survivor, and a new mother on her first marathon.
Verified · NBC Connecticut
CommunityThe Restaurant Meals Program lets eligible older adults, people with disabilities, their spouses, and people experiencing homelessness buy prepared food with a Link card.
Verified · Shaw Local
CommunityNearly 100 high school robotics students from nine schools, led by Barstow's FRC Team 1939, modified seven toy cars at Variety KC's Go Baby Go build so toddlers with mobility challenges can drive and play.
Verified · KMBC 9
CommunityFor citations issued from October 1 through November 13, the city accepts an unwrapped toy worth the fine. The toys go to families moving into permanent housing.
Verified · Las Vegas Sun
AnimalsBoots, a relative of the department's K-9 Watson, will work with the resource officer in the Lin-Wood Public Schools.
Verified · WMUR
CommunityThe Lansing chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace held a build day in Haslett. The chapter makes nearly 1,000 beds a year and still has a wait list of 100 to 200 families.
Verified · WILX
ScienceThe federal abandoned-mine program honored Montana for a plant that treats about 150 gallons a minute of acid drainage that once sent hundreds of pounds of metals into the creek each day.
Verified · Hi-Line Today
CommunityCASA Encore's dance and banner competition funds volunteer advocates for children in foster care in three north Mississippi counties. Alpha Omicron Pi won for a third year.
Verified · The Daily Mississippian
CommunityThe state is spending more than $5.8 million to buy development rights on 22 farms in 14 counties, including a Bucks County farm that dates to 1765.
Verified · PennWatch
AnimalsAbout two dozen Bitty Kitty Brigade fosters explored the Sea Life aquarium, a yearly outing that helps socialize them for adoption.
Verified · Associated Press
AnimalsVolunteers at the therapeutic riding nonprofit help riders, including brothers Noah and Elijah, build core strength and confidence.
Verified · WCBI
CommunityFamilies, including first-timers with a 7-month-old, gathered in Lake Charles to celebrate their children through the Down Syndrome Association of Southwest Louisiana.
Verified · KPLC
CommunityHundreds walked with self-advocates with Down syndrome, then danced at the Bandstand while students lined the boards to cheer.
Verified · Cape Gazette
Health & TechOn October 9 the FDA approved Teva's Weltruza, a long-acting injection for adults with schizophrenia. Teva expects a U.S. launch within weeks. It is not a cure.
Verified · CNBC
CommunityMilo, wiliwili, a Moreton Bay fig, and other trees went in at Halewikio Place, the first step toward Ke Ola O ʻAiea ʻOhana Park, with a $34,000 urban-forestry grant.
Verified · Hawaii News Now
CommunitySalt Lake City Public Lands, University of Utah volunteers, and a corrections greenhouse program are replanting the Bonneville Fire foothills to hold the slopes.
Verified · KSL
CommunityFirst Hawaiian Bank volunteers joined Mālama Maunalua at Kuliʻouʻou Beach Park. The bank's volunteers have now hauled out more than 4.2 million pounds of invasive algae over time.
Verified · Hawaii News Now
CommunityTeam Buche Cares received more than 35,000 pounds of pork spare ribs from the South Dakota Farmers Union and will send them statewide, including to all nine reservations.
Verified · KOTA Territory News