Getting Something in Return
Posted by Gabe on April 15, 2010 under Kids are Heroes | 
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Usually we speak of “giving back” or giving up something and wishing for nothing in return. Sometimes though it is really nice to get something in return for what we do. We are certainly not interested in cash or anything of monetary value, because this kind of thing pales in comparison to other things we get back anyway. I would like to share an email with you from a lieutenant in the Philadelphia Police Department.
Before I do that, let me clue the readers in who haven’t heard about our recent event at Boyd’s Bear Country in Gettysburg, PA. On Saturday, April 10, we hosted a Bear Drive where children made bears to donate to deserving children. They stuffed them with different colored beads, each color representing a certain emotion or trait such as laughter and bravery. They carefully selected their bear and dressed them in their favorite clothes. They named the bears and even drew pictures and wrote letters to the children who would receive them. The bears were destined for one of four places: Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Children’s Medical Center in Washington DC, Bears On Patrol and the Nyaka School for Orphans in Uganda. They were all shipped out this past Monday.
Bears on Patrol is an organization we recently partnered with that supplies bears to police departments. The idea is that police officers donate the bears to kids who find themselves in difficult situations. We ended up donating a total of 140 bears on Saturday, and 32 of them went to the Philadelphia Police Department on behalf of Bears on Patrol. Now back to the email. Lieutenant Patrick Quinn of the Philadelphia Police sent us this message today:
