This is how it is supposed to be. Selflessness, volunteerism, people organizing to help others is sustainable. Enthusiasm for good deeds does not wane or gently fade until it disappears, as it often does in some other place. It doesn’t happen here.
So why is the fourth Saturday in October so important in North Central Washington? Why does Make a Difference Day, the national day of doing good, grab our attention and hold it so strongly? Why, year after year for more than two decades, have so many people chosen this day to come out to help their neighbors, to simply make a difference?
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