The 18-year-old senior plays defense for the Comets team at North Polk High School in Iowa. Though he has been called the “heart and soul” of the team, his coaches have never brought him into play out of concern that he would get hurt.

This is because Clay is legally blind – even when he wears glasses. His mother says that he was born as a “micropreemie” with cerebral palsy at just 23 weeks old, although he manages to aim for the basketball hoop by focusing on the right corner of his glasses.

So in lieu of the high school’s Senior Night last week, Clay’s coach finally called him onto the court during the final minute of the game. With the audience already giving him a standing ovation, Clay got into position as the crowd cheered him on.

“I wanted to get him in. It was Senior Night,” the head coach told WHO-TV in the interview below. “If there’s an opportunity that presented itself, I wanted to take it advantage of it. All the players were for it, too.”

Once the game was back in play, one of Clay’s teammates passed him the ball – and though he has been shooting hoops since he was in third grade, this was the first time he had ever taken a shot on his high school basketball team.

As the crowd waited with baited breath, Clay took the shot and sank the ball clean through the net, barely touching the rim – and the spectators erupted in wild cheers.

“This whole gym was yelling my name,” Clay told the news outlet. “Everything, both benches were jumping. The whole crowd was going crazy. It was like I was a little kid again.”

(WATCH the footage below) – Photo by WHO-TV

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Cook, who works at the L.A. Memorial Stadium, always keeps the facility “in tip top shape” for the footballers. So as a means of showing some love to their beloved colleague, the Rams decided to surprise him with two tickets to the upcoming Super Bowl game against the New England Patriots.

In a video that was uploaded to the team’s Twitter page, Garcia can be seen walking into one of the stadium offices – and he is confused when he is greeted by Rams wide receiver Brandin Cooks.

“One of the guys that works here, he said the general manager, Les, wanted to speak to me,” Garcia later told CBS Los Angeles. “And, well it made me a little nervous because that’s not an office you really want to get called into.”

Upon sensing Garcia’s anxiety, Cooks laughs and says there is no reason to be nervous. Instead, he just wanted to give Garcia a gift.

“On behalf of the team and organization, we would love to invite you and your son, Josh, round trip [to the] Super Bowl,” Cooks said. “You mean so much to us and everything that you do does not go unnoticed.”

Garcia is overwhelmed. Fighting back tears, he says that he has always wanted to go to the Super Bowl since he was a little boy – and now, he will be able to bring his own son to the game as well.

“Oh my god, are you serious?” Garcia says emotionally. “This is a dream come true.”

“From the bottom of my heart thank you, I love you guys. To have this and be with you guys in something so special like this. Wow, from the bottom of my heart, I thank you. Everybody.”

(WATCH the video below) – Photo by Los Angeles Rams

It takes a team to achieve the dream. @brandincooks had a little surprise for Alfonso, who keeps our facility in tip-top shape. #SBLIII pic.twitter.com/rzx92ROUi8

— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) January 24, 2019

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The dispatcher, a woman named Antonia Bundy, proceeded to stay on the line with the boy and help him with his homework.

Matt Gard, a sergeant at the police department, told BuzzFeed News that while they do not condone anyone using the emergency line for nonemergency help, their dispatch center was not busy at the time. So, Bundy felt OK to receive the call and stay on the line with the child.

“That day there happened to be five dispatchers working at the same time, and only two dispatchers were taking calls,” said Gard. “Had other emergency calls come in, we had other dispatchers available to taking calls.”

Our dispatchers never know what the next call might be.They train for many emergency situations, homework help is not one they plan for. We don’t recommend 911 for homework help but this dispatcher helped a young boy out and brightened his day.@PoliceOne @apbweb @wlfi @WTHRcom pic.twitter.com/w3qCYfJP7O

— LafayetteINPolice (@LafayetteINPD) January 25, 2019

The Lafayette Police Department shared the recording of the call on Twitter, writing Bundy “helped a young boy out and brightened his day.”

“I had a really bad day,” the boy is heard telling Bundy on the call.

“I just came to tell you…I just have tons of homework.”

When Bundy asked him what subjects in school he was particularly struggling with, he responded, “Math, and it’s so hard.”

Bundy then helped the young boy work out a math problem that involved adding fractions.

“I’m sorry for calling you, but I really needed help,” he’s heard saying at the end of the call.

Gard said Bundy attempted to stay on the line with the child to learn more about him and hopefully get in touch with his parents, but the call abruptly ended after the exchange.

Gard also added that because the call came from a cellphone that only allows the user to make 911 calls, they were unable to make a callback.

Overall, the police department is pleased with how Bundy handled the call.

“We don’t encourage the use of 911 for homework help. [However] in this situation, Antonia stated we weren’t busy and it sounded like [the boy] could use our help,” said Gard.

“She had to figure out what was causing him to have a bad day, and we were glad she was able to help the child out.”

This article originally appeared on Buzzfeed.

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Ruby Kate Chitsey first became inspired to help elderly residents after she spent last summer helping her mother Amanda with her work.

Amanda runs a business in which she assists dozens of patients at five different nursing facilities across Harrison, Arkansas. When Ruby Kate was visiting one of these nursing homes over the weekend, she noticed one of the residents gazing forlornly out the window.

The youngster was confused, however, when the only thing outside of the window was someone walking a dog out to a car.

“I asked Pearl, ‘What’s so important?’ She told me that it was her dog of 12 years, and she didn’t know the next time she would see it,” said Ruby Kate. “Pearl’s face was so sad. I thought that of all the things in this world Pearl could have, she would probably just ask for more visits with her dog.”

Pearl was unable to see her dog because she couldn’t afford to care for her on her own. Since half of US nursing homes are funded by the government, patients are only given about $40 to spend on “extra” comforts outside of room and board. This means that hundreds of residents only have $40 to spend on simple luxuries, such as haircuts, new pants – or dog food.

“I’m 11, and even I have enough money saved in my piggy bank to help Pearl get a few more visits with her dog,” says Ruby Kate.

The determined youngster then resolved to try and grant the wishes of more people there, so she grabbed her notebook and started knocking on the door of each resident’s room. She then asked them: “If you could have three wishes, what would they be?”

Some residents simply wished for a new pair of fitted pants; others dreamily expressed their longing for fast food; one woman even said that she wished she could go to a water park to watch families having fun.

“It was a great experience for everyone,” said Ruby’s mom. “You expect people to tell you they want a million dollars or a new car, but they don’t. They want snacks or a pair of pants that fits.”

Ruby Kate then launched her Three Wishes project to raise money for the patients’ wishes. Her mother helped her to set up a GoFundMe and Amazon wishlist for the project – and since they created the pages in November, the crowdfunding campaign has raised over $26,000.

The donations have helped to buy clothing, corrective hearing devices, food, shoes, and the most commonly requested item amongst the residents: pet food.

“The response so far has been amazing,” says her mom. “There are a lot of fundraisers for everything, but not so much for the elderly. It’s been refreshing to see attention shine on this group.”

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Peoples has worked for Sherwood Forest Elementary in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for two years, and in that short time, he has become a “superhero” to the students, parents, and staffers.

“He’s just extraordinary,” one student told WXII. “He helps all of us and keeps us safe, and we all love him.”

Last month, Peoples was unable to come into work because his car broke down. On top of that, the school community discovered that Peoples had spent Christmas Eve in the hospital. Having noticed his absence and heard about his misfortune, school parent Sloane Johnson took to Facebook to find him some help.

The response was immediate. “Within a span of two hours, we had $800 raised and a car donated by another parent,” Johnson remarked.

That very same week, Peoples was taken by surprise when a group of parents and students greeted him with signs, cheers, applause, and a donated SUV.  As if this wasn’t enough, they included a check for $2,500.

“…they showed me so much love,” Peoples tearfully told the news outlet. “And I don’t take it lightly…”

As he starts his new car with a smile, it’s clear that Peoples will be arriving on time for a job he loves in order to ensure the safety of those who love him too.

(WATCH the video below) — Photo by WXII

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Dave Cochran — a homeless Kansas City Chiefs fan — helped strangers along U.S. Highway 40 pull their cars out of the snow in the Missouri city on Saturday after several inches fell in the area, reported local CBS affiliate KCTV.

What Cochran didn’t know was that one of the trapped travelers he aided that day was actually Chiefs player, Jeff Allen, who got stuck in the snow on his way to the Chiefs game against the Indianapolis Colts in his 2019 BMW.

“I rolled down my window and I asked them if they needed help,” Cochran told the outlet. “They said, ‘Yeah! We’re trying to get to the game.’”

Without any hesitation, Cochran — who lives out of his truck — towed Allen’s car out of the snow and up a hill, with the athlete successfully making it to the game, according to KCTV.

Cochran’s act of kindness did not go unnoticed.

Allen used Twitter after the game to ask people to help him track Cochran down, so that he could thank him and give him AFC Championship Game tickets.

“My car got stuck in the snow before the game & a nice guy named Dave help pull me out without knowing I was a player. I want to give him tickets to the AFC championship game for helping but don’t have a way to contact him. He drove a 97 or 98 Black Suburban,” tweeted Allen.

Update: Despite the recent influx in people changing their name to Dave in the KC area lol, I was actually able to track down the Dave that helped me thanks to the power of social media and #ChiefsKindgom. Thanks for your kindness https://t.co/e4OkEg6AAw

— Jeff Allen (@JeffAllen71) January 13, 2019

“I seen that message and people called me,” Cochran told KCTV. “I started bawling out of happiness and excitement.”

Cochran made a Twitter account so that he could respond to Allen, tweeting out a video saying that it was him who helped the NFL player.

Cochran has a complicated past, filled with legal run-ins and personal trauma, according to the Kansas City Star.

“I was in prison from 2008 to 2015 with a six month break in between,” Cochran told the outlet. “People gave me chances. People didn’t give up on me.”

And now, even more people are rooting for Cochran to succeed and turn his life around.

Justin Manford, a stranger to Cochran, started a GoFundMe account to raise money in hopes that it’ll “give Dave the leg-up to get on the path that he wants.” The fund has already raised over $14,000 — well over the $10,000 goal.

According to KSHB in Kansas City, businesses are also reaching out to help Cochran in any way that they can — one replaced the broken windows in his car, and another gave Cochran and his fiancé some clothes for the cold weather.

“We’ve got a lot of caring, good-hearted people in Kansas City,” Cochran told the Kansas City Star. “I want to use this to build myself up. I want to give back.”

This article originally appeared on People.

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Sarah Gomez-Lane is the winner of the 2018 Doodle for Google contest. This is the contest’s 10th year running, and for this year’s prompt, the tech company asked young artists to create drawings about what inspires them.

Upon receiving hundreds of thousands of submissions, the youngster from Falls Church, Virginia landed the prize after she drew a group of dinosaurs in the shape of the Google logo.

Sarah says she is inspired by dinosaurs because she wants to be a paleontologist when she grows up – and since the judges were so moved by her simple submission, she was named the winner.

“When they called my name, I felt happy and surprised,” said Sarah. “I’m going to call my principal and he’s going to say, ‘Yay!’”

In addition to receiving a $30,000 scholarship so she can pursue her dream of being a paleontologist, her school was also given $50,000 to spend on technology that will help their students succeed.

She also got to collaborate with the Google animation team to make the doodle an interactive graphic.

“I just hope when people see the doodle they are also inspired to think about not only what they dreamed of and wished of when they were kids, but to also take a second to enjoy the simple things in life,” said Perla Campos, Global Marketing Lead of the Google Doodle Team.

(WATCH the video below)

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In the video, the actors give voice to the plight of lonely and neglected “backyard dogs” like those who are featured in the real-life footage recorded near PETA’s Norfolk, Virginia, headquarters, where the group’s fieldworkers serve as a 24/7 resource for animals in need by providing them with free shelter, straw bedding, food, water, veterinary care, and other necessities.

The video spot will air a total of 10 times over the next two weeks on local TV channels. It begins with a shot of a chained dog sitting alone in the snow as Hardy asks, “When you first got me, did you know that you were going to chain me up and leave me outside?” It goes on to show footage of other shivering, hungry, and sad dogs forced to live outside with no protection from the elements.

Every year, PETA — whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” — receives thousands of complaints about people who leave dogs outside in the cold. Dogs and other animals can become dehydrated when water sources freeze and can suffer and die from frostbite and exposure. PETA advises anyone concerned about an animal’s welfare to alert local law-enforcement agencies or PETA’s first responders immediately. Last year, a dog froze to death in Detroit after being abandoned in a cage overnight, while another was found frozen to death in a crate in the middle of the road.

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Curtis Jenkins has worked as a bus driver for his school district in Dallas, Texas for seven years. This year, however, he wanted to do something special for his little passengers during the holiday season.

Originally, Jenkins wanted to host a gift exchange, but his wife remarked on how some of the students’ parents might not be able to afford a gift.

So instead of facilitating an exchange, he simply started saving money from his paychecks to buy gifts for all 70 of his students from Lake Highlands Elementary School.

After asking each student what they wanted for Christmas, he waited until the last school day before winter break to load up his bus with wrapped gifts and dole them out to the kids.

“When I opened that door, one of the kids asked me, ‘Are you Santa?’” Jenkins told KXAS. “Seeing those faces on the kids was more than anything I could ever do with the money.”

Though Jenkins was happy to fulfill his labor of love on his own, he says that he also received some financial contributions from a co-worker and a compassionate parent who was touched by his gesture.

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Pierce Vaughan, a flight attendant for Delta Airlines, had to work several flights throughout Christmas Eve and Day, so her father Hal Vaughan bought multiple plane tickets to spend the holiday with her in the sky.

Pierce’s story went viral after a passenger, who was seated next to Hal on one of the flights, shared the encounter on Facebook Monday.

“I had the pleasure of sitting next to Hal on my flight back home. His daughter Pierce was our flight attendant who had to work over Christmas,” Mike Levy wrote on Facebook alongside of a photo of himself with Hal as well as a photo of Pierce in her flight attendant uniform.

“Hal decided he would spend the holiday with her. So, he is flying on each of her flights today and tomorrow around the country to spend time with his daughter for Christmas. What a fantastic father! Wish you both a very Merry Christmas!” Levy added.

Levy also opened up about meeting Hal and Pierce, explaining to USA Today that Hal purchased a total of six flights.

Levy met Hal on a flight from Fort Myers to Detroit. He also told the outlet that Hal had a challenging time catching each flight, but had a great time overall.

Pierce later shared the photos taken by Levy on Facebook and thanked the airline for being so accommodating to her father.

“Look ma we made it Kimberly Hal Vaughan,” Pierce wrote in reference to her mother. “Dad’s first trip using his benefits was a success! A special thanks to all the patient, wonderful gate agents around the country and my perfect crew.”

“He made it on every flight and even got first class RSW-DTW (Christmas miracle),” Pierce continued.

“Shoutout to Mike Levy for being a great first class passenger & helping us to understand how cool this actually is!” Pierce concluded.

Delta Airlines released a statement, obtained by NBC Chicago, saying, “We appreciate all of our employees for working during the holidays to serve Delta customers, and love seeing this awesome Dad having the chance to spend Christmas with his daughter— even while crisscrossing the country at 30,000 feet.”

This article originally appeared on People.

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