Posted on: Monday, June 13, 2005
ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Old cells raise cash for a cause
Advertiser Staff
You've got a new cell phone — the tiny one with a cool flip top and camera — so what do you do with the old one?
For every donated phone, Special Olympics will receive from $1 to more than $100, depending on the type of phone and usable parts.
Drop-off locations include The Honolulu Advertiser on Kapi'olani Boulevard, First Hawaiian Bank and Sprint. For more information, visit www.specialolympics.org/recycle.
Help those who need it
Feed and clothe the poor. Visit the elderly. Read to children in hospitals, she says.
"Giving has its own special rewards," Jeffers writes. "It is the pathway to finding and increasing our feelings of self-confidence and worth. And in the end, it is just these feelings that we are all yearning for during those times when our lives seem so empty and unhappy."
FINAL WORD
"Go for a ramble. That's what the English call a country walk that's taken just for fun. Don't think of it as exercise. Look around. Listen to the birds. Take side paths."
Maria Rodale | founding editor of Organic Style magazine, on ways to get more joy into your life, in the June issue.
The Turn Old into Gold program donates cash to Special Olympics in Hawai'i for each cellular phone turned in at designated locations.
If you're feeling low, help someone else, recommends Susan Jeffers, author of "Life Is Huge! Laughing, Loving and Learning From It All."
