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Pay it forward: Sweet success
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Things got so sticky sweet on Monday’s edition of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Buzz briefly contemplated adding our name to the national transplant database for a fresh pancreas.
Local sisters Kristy O’Conner and Kasey Osborne-Lumpp were back, along with about 300 other audience members, who all had attended a taping of the show last month in Chicago. During the first broadcast, Winfrey gave each audience member a $1,000 Bank of America gift card and requested that each go home and “pay it forward” to a local charity in one week.
For O’Conner, an Atlantan, and Osborne-Lumpp, a Grayson resident, that meant getting busy to raise funds for My Sister’s House, a shelter run by the Atlanta Union Mission.
On Monday’s show, during a taped segment with narration by Oprah herself, it was disclosed that the sisters, along with able assistance from Kroger shoppers, Q100 listeners and corporate checks from Home Depot, Target, Pottery Barn and IKEA, raised a whopping $200,000. The amount was described by “Oprah” producers as the “biggest payout by far.”
On the program, My Sister’s House worker LaQuesha Agnew said that the response has been “just overwhelming.” One generous individual even donated an 18-wheel tractor trailer full of items. Agnew says the shelter has had to go in search of additional storage space, a nice problem to have at this time of year.
The massive amounts of items will go to deserving mothers and the money raised will go to improve counseling services, according to Agnew.
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