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- Kindhearted “Sandwich Man” Spends His Nights Feeding the Homeless
- Hollywood Restaurant Grows the Food Right Next to Your Table
- Chinese Lottery Winners Collect Prizes Dressed as Cartoon Characters to Protect Their Identity
| Kindhearted “Sandwich Man” Spends His Nights Feeding the Homeless Posted: 21 Apr 2015 05:57 AM PDT While most people look forward to a quiet retirement, 70-year-old Allan Law seems unstoppable. The former teacher from Minneapolis has spent the past 15 years tirelessly delivering food and other supplies to people on the streets. He distributed a whopping 520,000 sandwiches to the homeless last year, and over 1 million since 1999, earning himself the nickname 'Sandwich Man'. A typical day for Allan starts with collecting sandwiches made by volunteers, and donations from various groups to his organisation 'Minneapolis Recreation Development Inc'. He then begins his delivery rounds at 9pm, driving his van through the streets of inner city Minneapolis, handing out sandwiches. He drives on relentlessly, ending his shift only at 10am. As a backup, Allan has 17 freezers in his apartment in Edina, packed with thousands of sandwiches. "Most of these are going to be turkey, bologna and cheese," he explained during a video news report. Allan, himself a patient of arthritis and a cancer survivor, continues to remain committed to his work, despite his ill health. "People say, 'You're crazy,' and I say, 'No. If I was homeless, or if I had a couple of little kids that needed food or something, I would appreciate someone coming, giving a helping hand,'" he said.
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| Hollywood Restaurant Grows the Food Right Next to Your Table Posted: 21 Apr 2015 05:02 AM PDT Lots of people are into growing their own food these days, and it looks like restaurants are trying to catch up too. Hollywood restaurant 'Tender Greens', for instance, is filled with vertical gardens, and everything they grow is served on the menu! "We've always been interested in growing on-site," said Erik Oberholtzer, co-founder of the California-based fast food chain. "But all of our restaurants are in high-density urban areas, so aside from a few planter boxes we thought there was nothing beyond decorative that we could ever do." But when Erik and the other founders started researching vertical gardens, they came across the concept of aeroponic towers from Green City Farms. These towers are basically plant-filled poles that can easily blend in, pretty much anywhere. So they decided to get some for their Hollywood location. |
| Chinese Lottery Winners Collect Prizes Dressed as Cartoon Characters to Protect Their Identity Posted: 21 Apr 2015 04:43 AM PDT A Chinese man was recently in the news for not only winning millions of yuan in a lottery, but also for the bizarre costume he wore while collecting his prize. The man, believed to be about 40 years old, was so worried about revealing his identity that he actually turned up dressed as the popular Disney character Baymax! Speaking to reporters, the man revealed that he had won 170 million yuan (approximately $27 million) even though he rarely buys lottery tickets. As for the strange costume, the man revealed that his wife forced him into wearing it, fearing that old friends and long-lost relatives might suddenly show up expecting a small share of the prize. But no costume can actually help him evade the mandatory 20 percent tax on lottery winnings, which means he will have to cough up about 34 million yuan to give back to the state. |
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