We just wrapped up Election Day and if you couldn't be bothered to vote, this may embarrass or hopefully inspire you.
Yesterday, Election Day, marked Dick Mcguire's 98th birthday, and he celebrated it by voting. Mcguire is a former state AG and markets commissioner and lives on a farm in Jackson, in Washington County. This was his 20th presidential election and he hasn't missed casting his ballot in 76 years!
Mcguire became eligible to vote in 1944, when he cast his first ballot in an election that saw FDR win a fourth term by defeating Thomas Dewey. Mcguire considers voting his civic duty. As For who he voted for, he says that’s far less important than why he is voting.
And here's a lesson on how we all can get along. A Buffalo bills fan has stepped up in a big way, to help improve the life of a rival Patriots fan.
In March Ken Burke, a Bills fan, drove from Buffalo to Boston to give one of his kidneys to a young girl, Cassie Yahnian, a Patriots fan. Despite the fact that she was a stranger then, he had seen a post about her struggles and wanted to help.
Cassie told spectrum news that eight months later, she feels like a new person.
Ken and Cassie became instant friends and they talk at least every other day. Cassie now proudly wears a t-shirt her cousin made her. It features the Bills' logo fashioned into the shape of a kidney and reads, 'Patriots fan on the outside,' and 'Bills fan on the inside,' "