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WE WENT ALL OVER KANSAS CITY TODAY TO FIND THE HELPERS. ONE DAY, AFTER A BLIZZARD, AND WHERE WE FOUND THEM WAS USUALLY RIGHT NEXT DOOR. WHEN THE TIRE SPIN. ONE, TWO THREE. KEEP YOUR WHEELS STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT AND THE SNOW PILES UP, HELPING OUT. ENTER THE HELPERS HELPING MY LADY. MY RESPONSIBILITY. SHOVEL THE SNOW. AND ONCE I GOT THROUGH THAT, IT WAS ALL DOWNHILL. YOU FELL IN THE DITCH. THESE PURPOSEFUL PUSHES MIGHT BE EXPECTED, BUT OTHERS? WE HAD NO CLUE SHE WAS PREGNANT THE ENTIRE TIME. MY FRIEND HAD A BABY UNEXPECTEDLY. THEY DIDN’T KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT IN THE MIDDLE OF A BLIZZARD. 7 POUND, THREE OUNCE WINTER ROSE MADE HER SURPRISE ENTRANCE SUNDAY WITH HELP FROM EMERGENCY CREWS. HER DAD’S CAR IS STILL STUCK IN SNOW, SO HIS FRIENDS ARE TAKING HIM TO MEET HIS BABY GIRL. SHE IS AN ANGEL, A GUARDIAN ANGEL WHO’S GOING TO GET ME TO MY BABY TODAY. HERE YOU GO. THANK YOU. I LIKE TO KEEP PEOPLE MOVING. AND WHEN SNOW STACKS UP, THE HELPERS ROLL OUT SO OTHERS CAN ROLL ON.
Volunteers, Kansas police help 99-year-old veteran get to church
Shawnee, Kansas, resident Sally Keithley-McCulley wanted to make it to church Wednesday, but her driveway was covered in snow. That’s when a few good Samaritans stepped in to help.Related video above: Strangers help strangers dig out after Kansas City blizzardKeithley-McCulley, a 99-year-old World War II combat veteran, attends church each week and did not want to miss it, but the deep snow piled on her long driveway meant she was blocked in. So she called her friend Sean Winn, who makes documentary films honoring the lives of veterans, for help.Winn reached out to Debra Shultz, chair of the Missouri Korean War Veterans Memorial, who was also ready to help, although she did not have a snow shovel. She visited Cosentino's Price Chopper and told store manager David Nuendorf the story, and he donated a shovel.Winn and Shultz began the work, getting about half of the driveway cleared. But as anyone who has been out there shoveling knows, it’s not an easy task. The two called the Shawnee Kansas Police Department, which sent officers Sarah Durham and Grant Howell to assist with shoveling.And it didn’t stop there. Jack Meylan, a Baker University student who was out clearing driveways with a snowblower to earn money, saw police at the driveway and volunteered to help clear the snow. Meylan didn’t want any money for the job.Meylan's snowblower helped clear the rest of the driveway in minutes, giving Keithley-McCulley a way to make it to church.
SHAWNEE, Kan. —
Shawnee, Kansas, resident Sally Keithley-McCulley wanted to make it to church Wednesday, but her driveway was covered in snow. That’s when a few good Samaritans stepped in to help.
Related video above: Strangers help strangers dig out after Kansas City blizzard
Keithley-McCulley, a 99-year-old World War II combat veteran, attends church each week and did not want to miss it, but the deep snow piled on her long driveway meant she was blocked in.
So she called her friend Sean Winn, who makes documentary films honoring the lives of veterans, for help.
Winn reached out to Debra Shultz, chair of the Missouri Korean War Veterans Memorial, who was also ready to help, although she did not have a snow shovel. She visited Cosentino's Price Chopper and told store manager David Nuendorf the story, and he donated a shovel.
Winn and Shultz began the work, getting about half of the driveway cleared. But as anyone who has been out there shoveling knows, it’s not an easy task. The two called the Shawnee Kansas Police Department, which sent officers Sarah Durham and Grant Howell to assist with shoveling.
And it didn’t stop there. Jack Meylan, a Baker University student who was out clearing driveways with a snowblower to earn money, saw police at the driveway and volunteered to help clear the snow. Meylan didn’t want any money for the job.
Meylan's snowblower helped clear the rest of the driveway in minutes, giving Keithley-McCulley a way to make it to church.
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