Mountain Views News, Combined Edition Saturday, December 11, 2021

Mountain View News Saturday, December 11, 2021 2 A SEASON OF GIVING Mountain View News Saturday, December 11, 2021 2 A SEASON OF GIVING 
SPOTLIGHT SIERRA MADRE 


By Meghan Malooley 

SANTA'S LITTLE HELPERS 

Giving back to your community is an amazing act. Made even 
more amazing when those giving back are children. I would like 
you all to meet three very special kids Frances, Hudson and Oliver 
Farnam. Frances is 13 and is probably one of the most mature 
and giving hearted 13 year old's I’ve ever met. Not only does she 
do normal things that a girl her age likes to do but one of her huge 
hobbies is converting a 1976 914 Porsche from gas to electric! If 

that's not impressive I don't know what is! At 13 I was hanging out in the park thinking I 
was a rebel because my friends rode skateboards (yea, I was that girl lol).When I found out 
Frances was doing the Porsche project I approached her with one of my own. We received 
a kids table as a donation to be a Christmas present for one of the Sierra Madre Gives Back 
families. It's very sturdy but needed a new paint job and Frances took it in stride! Not only 
is she sanding, painting and decorating the table in a batman theme, the recipients favorite, 
but she chose 
to forgo getting 
paid for the job 
and just receive 
service hours. 

don't know 
many adults, let 
alone kids who 
would take service 
hours over 
cash in hand. 
She's a keeper! 

` Frances’s 
brothers, Oliver 
and Hudson, 
have as much of 
a giving spirit 
as she does! The 
3 of them approached 
me because even at such a young age they understand that there are people in 
the world less fortunate than they are. These 3 amazing kids pooled all of their savings together 
in order to “adopt” a family with 3 young girls for Christmas. I am in complete awe 
of this incredible family. They decided they wanted to purchase an extremely popular and 
expensive gift for these girls (I’m not mentioning the name in case the family they adopted 
is reading this, gotta keep the Christmas spirit of surprises alive!). When they realized they 
didn't have the resources on their own to do this, they enlisted the help of community 
members and those that follow Frances’s Porsche project. They received multiple donations 
to help them on their charitable journey. I think we should all definitely take a page 
from their book. These kids are driven and generous and that's an unstoppable combination. 
A lot of people, during the holidays, are preoccupied with what gifts they want and 
what they'll receive. But not these kids, I mean don't get me wrong they want presents, 
who doesn't? But it doesn't define them, their generous hearts and beautiful souls define 
them. Let's please take a second and applaud Jeanie and Dan Farnam (the parents).They 
are obviously doing something right! Take a bow Farnam family! You deserve it and we 
salute you! Thank you! 


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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18THSATURDAY, DECEMBER 18TH 
3:00 PM TO 6:00 PM 
All Things By Jeff Brown 


You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your 
mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” 
Dr. Seuss Author/Poet 

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you 
do and damned if you don't.” 
Eleanor Roosevelt 

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his 
deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” 
Winston Churchill 

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” Henry David Thoreau 

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.” Napoleon Hill 

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” 
Buddha 

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