Acts of kindness are flooding Newtown, Connecticut. From anonymous deliveries of Christmas trees from North Carolina, to coffee at the town's general store from California.
NBC's Ann Curry issued the online call to do something good in honor of the Newtown victims.
"Imagine if everyone could commit to doing one act of kindness for every one of those children," Curry said.
People in Kern County are paying it forward too. At the Starbucks on Chester Avenue in Bakersfield, workers say customers have been picking up strangers' tabs all day.
Small business owner Bernie Winters says he was inspired to do something kind this week, so he paid $1,000 to have his mother-in-law's car repaired.
"It just weighed on my heart to do something kind for her, so I had her car picked up and taken to an automotive place to get it fixed," said Winters, who owns Down Hole Carbide Company. “I don’t have a ton of money myself, but she’s in need. We need more people in the world to do generous things.”
Anna Rodriguez says her confirmation class of high school sophomores at San Clemente Mission is sending letters and a plaque from Bakersfield to Newtown.
“They were really affected by it. Some of them started crying, and they couldn’t believe what was happening,” Rodriguez said.
She says her class wrote letters Sunday as a way of expressing their feelings. Then the class pooled their money to buy a plaque for Sandy Hook Elementary School.
“It was just something to come together,” she says. “And, to let them know that we're thinking about them across the country in California."
Rodriguez says the class plans to send the letters and plaque to Newtown over the weekend.
Also, Foothill High School's Bible Club will hold a prayer vigil Thursday morning at 7:15 a.m. to honor the victims at Sandy Hook.
NBC's Ann Curry issued the online call to do something good in honor of the Newtown victims.
"Imagine if everyone could commit to doing one act of kindness for every one of those children," Curry said.
People in Kern County are paying it forward too. At the Starbucks on Chester Avenue in Bakersfield, workers say customers have been picking up strangers' tabs all day.
Small business owner Bernie Winters says he was inspired to do something kind this week, so he paid $1,000 to have his mother-in-law's car repaired.
"It just weighed on my heart to do something kind for her, so I had her car picked up and taken to an automotive place to get it fixed," said Winters, who owns Down Hole Carbide Company. “I don’t have a ton of money myself, but she’s in need. We need more people in the world to do generous things.”
Anna Rodriguez says her confirmation class of high school sophomores at San Clemente Mission is sending letters and a plaque from Bakersfield to Newtown.
“They were really affected by it. Some of them started crying, and they couldn’t believe what was happening,” Rodriguez said.
She says her class wrote letters Sunday as a way of expressing their feelings. Then the class pooled their money to buy a plaque for Sandy Hook Elementary School.
“It was just something to come together,” she says. “And, to let them know that we're thinking about them across the country in California."
Rodriguez says the class plans to send the letters and plaque to Newtown over the weekend.
Also, Foothill High School's Bible Club will hold a prayer vigil Thursday morning at 7:15 a.m. to honor the victims at Sandy Hook.