Fountaindale Public Library District: Kindness Day 2021

Bolingbrook IL

23 March, 2021

1:56 PM

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Press release from Fountaindale Public Library District: Melissa March 22, 2021 We're proud to support Bolingbrook Kindness Day on Saturday, May 15, with these activities for your entire family to share and celebrate acts of kindness. Spreading kindness can have a positive impact on a person's life and inspire others, especially our youth, to be kind to each other. WHAT IS KINDNESS DAY? Bolingbrook Kindness Day started in May 2018 to recognize the overwhelming kindness Samantha "Sammy" Yelenosky—a resident of Bolingbrook and a then student at Pioneer Elementary School—received from her school and community after facing tremendous health challenges. Sammy's parents wanted to share their gratitude for all the kindness she received and express how simple acts of kindness were critical to their daughter's recovery. In 2019, we joined with other local organizations and businesses to help expand the initiative to the entire Bolingbrook community. We're excited to once again be part of the Kindness Day efforts in our community! Watch Sammy's video below to learn about her inspiring story. Kindness Day Book Project Bolingbrook students, we want to hear your stories of kindness! We welcome your help to create a Kindness Day book of stories to publish on our eBook platform. Using the template below, please write and (optionally) illustrate an example of kindness from your own life and/or describe what kindness means to you. We will collect and assemble your work into an eBook to share with the entire community. Additionally, we plan to curate a select number of student entries into a print book to be distributed through our physical local author collection and other promotions.   Download Kindness Day Story Template   Download Kindness Day Letter to Schools Submission Deadline: Friday, April 30, 2021 Please submit your physical entry at our Children's Services Desk, or upload a high-resolution scan below. Kindness Day Events Stay tuned for more information about our Kindness Day events coming soon! This press release was produced by Fountaindale Public Library District. The views expressed here are the author's own.