Abby Nelson, 10, of Alexandria, with Elaine Randall, her fourth-grade homeroom teacher at Reiley Elementary School inside the school Thursday, May 2. Randall encouraged Nelson to involve other students in her personal mission to remember the one year anniversary of her father's death on April 25 by performing random acts of kindness.
Abby Nelson, 10, made sure the anniversary of her father's death was celebrated by performing acts of kindness and not hunkered down in mourning.
Encouraged by her homeroom teacher, Elaine Randall, Nelson went on Reiley Elementary School's morning television news and invited other students in the school to perform random acts of kindness and then write down what they did on April 25.
The idea to spread random acts of kindness started at home, and Nelson, her mother and two siblings handed Kroger gift cards outside the Crossroads Boulevard store and picked up the tab for random person at ...