Simple acts of kindness from strangers in a time of need impacted two Slidell women. Now, they are paying it forward.”Some people don’t necessarily have the means to help, but anybody can grab a sheet of paper and markers or pens and write a letter of support or create a card,” Kim Bergeron said. Bergeron remembers what the city of Slidell was like during the 2005 hurricane season. She says the community had just begun to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina before they got wind that Hurricane Rita was on the way.”Spirits were already low, people started to kind of lose it,” Bergeron said. “And then we got this box of hope in the mail. It was cards that schoolchildren in Massachusetts had made, and they just said, you know, be happy. We are praying for you and all these positive messages.”Bergeron says the smallest act of kindness made a big …
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