RAYS OF Sunshine ON CLOUDY DAYS
36 COBB LIFE | MAY 2020
BY KATY RUTH CAMP AND DAMON POIRIER
READERS SHARE STORIES OF KINDNESS DURING THE GLOOMY DAYS OF COVID-19
A trio of Acworth sisters aren’t letting social distancing
keep them from making a difference.
Lindsay Butts, 17, Lauren Butts, 15, and Logan Butts, 13,
have been hard at work making masks at home to help fill the
need created by COVID-19. The family follows the
#millionmaskchallenge on Instagram, sending the finished
masks to locations where they are most needed.
They have partnered locally with the Georgia Ovarian
Cancer Alliance as well to make GOCA-inspired masks out
of the nonprofit’s branded bandanas. They plan to share the
masks with Doug Barron, GOCA’s executive director, to
distribute to local ovarian cancer patients and survivors who
could benefit from the extra protection.
Pictured are Acworth sisters - Lindsay Butts, 17, Lauren Butts, 15, and Logan Butts,
13, who have been hard at work making masks at home to help fill the need
created by COVID-19.
I am writing about a neighbor who has helped my
husband and me long before the coronavirus. I have a
bad back and it’s hard for me to shop for groceries. She works
for a supermarket nears us. Months ago, she called me and
told me that she would be glad to shop for groceries for us if
we can’t do it ourselves.
Her husband has some serious health problems himself
and she has to be at work at 4:30 in the morning. Even after
getting home from work, she has called me and asked me if
we needed anything and was willing to go back to the
supermarket to get whatever we needed. She also brings us
pastries and homemade cakes.
Also, her husband, who is in constant pain, will do
anything for us. He cuts our grass and trims our shrubbery. A
few years ago, we had a snow storm that caused several trees
to fall across our driveway, blocking us in. All of a sudden, we
heard a chain saw in our driveway. He and his wife were
cutting up the trees so that we could get out of our driveway.
We didn’t even ask them for help; they just saw that we
needed help.
We went to a church that had almost 1,000 members and
my husband and I did a lot for people who needed help for
many years but we have never had one person from our
church who has even called us or asked us if we needed help.
We have gotten a lot older and both of us have bad backs and
we are not able to physically help people anymore.
We are extremely thankful for the neighbors we have who
are willing to help us.
- Naomi Storey, Powder Springs