By Sheila Anderson
Valley City Times-Record

This week children at Jefferson and Washington Elementary Schools have been commemorating Kindness Week.  The program is coordinated by the elementary school guidance counselors, Judi Hillier and Amy Meier. The theme this year is “100 Ideas for Kindness.”
Kindness Week is an annual week sponsored by MeritCare, which donates buttons, tattoos and pencils for all of the children in the elementary schools.   
“What I can’t believe is that MeritCare provided all of these for us free,” Hillier stated.      
During Kindness Week, children are asked to think of ways to be kind to others.  Children also are attentive to other children’s behavior, and when they witness another child engaging in an act of kindness, they fill out a “Random Act of Kindness” card detailing the incident.
MeritCare donates T-shirts to 10 percent of the school enrollment. These T-shirts will be awarded to students whose names are drawn from the “Random Act of Kindness” cards.    

For full story, see Thursday's edition of the Valley City Times-Record.