donations - What He Said: The Words of Jesus Christ https://whathesaid.com Making the words of Jesus Christ easy to read and explore Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:40:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 AOK Thursday: Lottery Gifts https://whathesaid.com/2010/11/04/aok-thursday-lottery-gifts/ https://whathesaid.com/2010/11/04/aok-thursday-lottery-gifts/#respond Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:40:27 +0000 https://whathesaid.com/?p=633 If you won $11 million in the lottery, what would you do with it? New car, new house, new wardrobe, travel? If you’re Violet and Allen Large, a retired Canadian couple, you give 98% of it away. Once they won the prize, they found only headaches and anxiety, with strangers calling them up and asking […]

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]]> If you won $11 million in the lottery, what would you do with it? New car, new house, new wardrobe, travel? If you’re Violet and Allen Large, a retired Canadian couple, you give 98% of it away. Once they won the prize, they found only headaches and anxiety, with strangers calling them up and asking for money.

The donations soon began. They compiled a list of potential recipients and the spree soon followed. To the local fire department, churches, cemeteries, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, hospitals in Truro and Halifax, and organizations that fight cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes.

“What you’ve never had, you never miss.” – Violet Large

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