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A Little Bit of Awesome: 5 15 2020 Edition

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A Little Bit of Awesome: 5 15 2020 Edition

Bud Light has rebooted its decades-old “Real American Heroes” ads with a test designed for the COVID-19 era. The campaign is called “Stay at Home Humans of Genius”.


America now has its OWN World War Two vet who’s walking for charity. A 99-year-old in Oregon named Bud Lewis is raising money for a charity called the Sunshine Division, by walking 100 laps around a track before his 100th birthday in August.
You can donate RIGHT HERE.


The video is meant to be funny, and it is. But it’s also something that’s not out of the question during the pandemic.


A 7-year-old in Wisconsin was planning to do a lemonade stand before everything shut down. So she launched a virtual one with coupons, and it’s raising TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars for charity. Enough to feed over 600 families a week. Check out her full story RIGHT HERE.


A guy in Belgium who has access to a crane has been taking it to nursing homes, so people can visit family members at their windows.


 

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