Sometimes you meet an ordinary person doing something extraordinary. On a recent trip I met Normand Gallant. Normand is someone you could pass on the street and1notice but he is a very special person who 2 recognition.
Norm lives in a remote area far from the 3 big hospital, so when his wife 4 cancer several years ago, Norm was faced with a four hour 5 to where she should be treated. That meant lots of 6 for meals, fuel, hotels and so on. But in the end the cancer took his wife 7.
Norm was obviously 8 by his wife's passing, but he was also very angry, 9 he realized that other people were 10 the same sorts of hardships. He wanted to do something but he didn't want to give money to the 11 that support cancer research because he didn't know how much would actually get to the researchers. What he did was to 12 parties.
About every three weeks on Saturday evenings, there is a party in Norm's garage. There is music and dancing and 13 during the evening Norm tells about a family who are having difficulties 14 the cost supporting a cancer patient undertaking 15 far from home. Then a honey-pa1 is passed around and the money 16 , every cent of it goes 17 to that family.
Norm's personal loss has 18 an act of kindness that honors the 19 of the wife he has lost. Wouldn't it be 20 if we had more people in the world like Normand Gallant? He makes the world a better place.
