Banding together to help -- OrlandoSentinel.com

Beyond wonderful! Reading this article was a great way to start my day. Fantastic people!!

Acts of Kindness are Great. God works in these mysterious ways to bring hope to us all.

Wow - hope this is picked up by all high schools - help those who need it!!

Really great article: At last there was something positive in the newspaper and it was NOT about the lousy arena project!

Morry wrote:

Beyond wonderful! Reading this article was a great way to start my day. Fantastic people!!

You got that right: really great and positive article! I had to turn off all the negative news on Channel 9 this morning and read this article! One continual hour of total violence in Orlando!

uh oh wrote:

Wow - hope this is picked up by all high schools - help those who need it!!

Me to!

What a wonderful group of parents and teenagers. Your thoughtful actions will be remembered for a lifetime. I am a Lyman Alumni from 1987 and your group makes me proud to be a HOUND ! Is there a contact person, or anyone I can call to make a donation ?

It's awesome to see what a little love can do to a family in need! We don't always know how beneficial a little tlc can be!

What a beautiful story and article. Kids in a band helping kids in need. Such a positve way to start the day. The news needs to start reporting more on these types of things. What a great article! Way to go kids, you should all be very proud of yourselves.

This is what the doctor ordered for this family and our country, faith in God and our selves. God Bless those that helped these familys, very simply it's wonderful to see this. Time to go to church and praise the lord for people like that.. Florida is assume..

Great story!

the pic with this story sucks. is the girl crying? laughing? is she one of the children whose mom died? a cheerleader? come on sentinel.

I know this is suppose to be a feel good story. But,I get the distinct impression that if this young lady were not a popular cheerleader in the school and pretty this event would not have taken place.If she was just some plain Jane in a run down house you would not have cared.Just my opinion.

They did a lot of work!

This is a wonderful story and is absolutely inspiring.

Leonard wrote:

I know this is suppose to be a feel good story. But,I get the distinct impression that if this young lady were not a popular cheerleader in the school and pretty this event would not have taken place.If she was just some plain Jane in a run down house you would not have cared.Just my opinion.

I am not sure you understood the article. The young lady was a band member NOT a cheerleader.
I applaud those who help others with random acts of kindness. If only each person in the world participated in such and act on a daily basis.....

The lady is right: you don't need a big building with fancy windows, a complicated superstructure, politically-burning leaders, or anything else to do simply what Jesus and the other great spiritual leaders asked us to do: show love for one another, and relieve one another's suffering.

I'm grateful for this article.

And to Leonard: your comment is both right and wrong: this kind of thing happens on a smaller scale every day in Hispanic and black communities; it's just not covered in the news.

TCD wrote:

What a wonderful group of parents and teenagers. Your thoughtful actions will be remembered for a lifetime. I am a Lyman Alumni from 1987 and your group makes me proud to be a HOUND ! Is there a contact person, or anyone I can call to make a donation ?

Thanks for your very kind words. Donations to the Band Aids would be most welcome. Please contact me for details -- president@lymanband.com. In return, we'd love to have you as our guest at the Band's Winter Showcase in December! And, of course, come see our band and football team in action at Friday night varsity games. We have great shows planned for this year!

Crumole wrote:

the pic with this story sucks. is the girl crying? laughing? is she one of the children whose mom died? a cheerleader? come on sentinel.

Having been there yesterday when the family arrived home, I can tell you it was a mixture of emotions -- laughter and tears. And yes, she was the girl who lost her mom this year, she's in the band and is a cheerleader, too. We think she's pretty remarkable!

Leonard wrote:

I know this is suppose to be a feel good story. But,I get the distinct impression that if this young lady were not a popular cheerleader in the school and pretty this event would not have taken place.If she was just some plain Jane in a run down house you would not have cared.Just my opinion.

Since our formation this year, the Band Aids have reached out to several families who've gone through rough times - families with a chronically ill parent or who've lost parents. And our circle of helper families has grown even wider with this latest project. As the name implies, the Band Aids can't solve the underlying traumatic events, but we can act as a bandaid or balm over a wound. We hope we DON'T have any more such events in the Band family, but the Band Aids are ready to respond when needed.

Nice to see GOOD NEWS for a change.