By: Priya MigneaultHello everyone, As I am sure you noticed the 'Weekly Does of Hope' series as been becoming bit more of a monthly volume. I am hoping to get back into posting this type of article weekly starting in October. 18-year-old, Justin Gavin, is being hailed as a hero in Connecticut for saving a mom and three children from a burning car. Justin was walking to the store when he noticed a car was on fire, he immediately chased it down and pulled the mother out of the drivers seat. He also managed to get the kids, ages 9, 4, and 1, out of the back before the entire car was engulfed in flames. "I was scared 'cause I didn't know whether the car was gonna blow up at that instant," Gavin told CNN. He has received the 'challenge coin' from the police department, one of the city's highest honours for his courage. When Gloria Scott's lights shut off in her home, she decided to take a chunk out of her budget to hire John Kinney, an electrician to come fix it. Like many seniors Gloria has a very small income and has been unable to make repairs to her home, when John saw the state of her place he put up a Facebook page asking other trades people to come help repair the place free of charge. The response was incredible! Gloria now has new electrical and plumbing systems, new windows, and extensive repairs to her crumbling walls, ceiling, and porch. The community also came together to help landscapes and plant the yard. When Giselle Aviles farther's Mexican food truck was struggling due to COVID she put out a plead to twitter asking others to swing by for some food. Her father, Elias, had only made $6 from one of his 12-hour-shifts and was fearing for his business. The tweet was retweeted over 2,000 times over the course of the evening and the next day there was a massive line up of people waiting for food by the time the truck opened at 8 am. She said there must have been hundreds of people who stopped by to get food and that the lines of people don't seem to be slowing down.
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