@_wej01 I worked 24 years in the same store, 3 different owners of the business maybe 10 managers. The last manager I worked for is the reason I left. Same thing, not one word from the manager when I left. Congratulate your husband and this is just proof he was right to leave.
In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly πΊπΈ
So adorable ππ΅ Yesterday on 7/5, sweet little Punch kun was sitting up when sleep completely took over π€ Just like a baby fighting to stay awake in the most boring class everβ¦ he tried so hard to keep his eyes open, but his little head kept bobbing as sleep won the battle π΄ The cutest struggle
The California Democrat cheating machine will never let Spencer Pratt advance in the LA mayor race.
However, this is finally going to wake up millions of Americans across this nation to see just how rigged the California elections are for Democrats.
The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud.
When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized.
Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night LA ballot drop.
0/24,000
A guy getting around 30% support got 0 out of 24,000.
Astronomically small probability of happening.
Impossible.
California no longer even hides it.
Doors need to be kicked in.
Officer Crespo's sister says their family is rallying around the 21-year CPD veteran, lifelong Chicagoan, and doting uncle by raising money for his medical and future expenses. https://t.co/J9geEqleQH
π¨ here's the chain of events you need to see..
Spencer Pratt sits down with CBS for a full hour..
CBS fact-checks Karen Bass on camera..
CBS "gets the call"..
CBS cuts the interview to 5 minutes..
Pratt posts about it publicly.. calls it a hit piece..
the internet loses its mind.. demands the real version..
CBS quietly drops a 30-minute extended cut..
and here's the part nobody's connecting..
the only reason any of this happened is because Pratt went public.. if he stayed quiet.. you never see 30 seconds of that interview.. let alone 30 minutes..
a sitting mayor allegedly called a major network after getting fact-checked.. and the network folded.. until the public got loud enough that folding the other way was the safer move..
that's not journalism.. that's damage control with a rewind button..
the system worked for someone today.. just not for you.
I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. π¨