
Char Wadden
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Char Wadden
@cubbywatch
A hard working beach goer who appreciates the sun, sand, family and a good laugh
Toronto, Ontario , Canada Katılım Ocak 2010
204 Takip Edilen86 Takipçiler

@NASAArtemis Welcome to 🇨🇦 where we are beyond proud of our @Astro_Jeremy and his best friends.
Feel free to wander down to Toronto!!! We would love a chance to tell you how you changed our lives!!!
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Realizing he has a problem is step one. Glad he is getting the help he needs. Now step down.
Karoline Leavitt@PressSec
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/20…
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@ianhanomansing Who was the most emotional and homesick during their flight.
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@NASA Just a reminder we have a 🇨🇦 we are very proud of on there. Contrary to what your interviewers are now saying - this is not just a US mission to the world.
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@TSNVicRauter From your O’Keefe days to TSN, you are one of the best. Congratulations my friend. Enjoy your well earned retirement.
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@petemuntean @jaketapper You and @Boris_Sanchez deserve an award for your coverage. It was next to none. Thanks.
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@TSN_Sports Congratulations Vic! From your O’Keefe days to TSN you have been one of the best. Congrats my friend and enjoy your retirement.
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@Boris_Sanchez Thanks for bringing us along with you today. Award winning coverage!
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@CAgovernor Thank you Mr President…..no insult intended. You are way better than the one that signs that title. 🇨🇦
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Heartbroken by this horrific school shooting in British Columbia. The people of California stand with our neighbors in Canada in grief and solidarity — no community should endure this kind of violence.
ABC News@ABC
JUST IN: Seven people have been killed in a school shooting in Canada, with two others found dead at a residence, police say. abcnews.link/PVkpFjJ
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The journalist in me noticed the man on the right. Bret Baier is one of FOX News’s leading news anchors. I know he plays golf with POTUS but it’s still cringe.
Josh Wingrove@josh_wingrove
Gretzky seems to have golfed with Trump, per a photo the president just posted:
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@gerrydee Thanks for all the laughs. Loved every minute. It is what the world needs now ! #funnyyoushouldask
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"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.
Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.
One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.
Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.
Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"
"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."
He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."
The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."
Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.
But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,
"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."
So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.
Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."
Let this story reach more hearts....
Credit: Mary Nelson

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@LenaSpringer Congratulations! What an exciting few weeks for you and your family ❤️
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@MrJerryOC Welcome to the winning side. We knew we would see you here #WEWANTITALL
Jerry O'Connell@MrJerryOC
Sorry to my Dodger friends. Always been a Mets fan. Still kinda upset about Tejada... #WorldSeries
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