Sometimes it seems like negative news dominates these pages.  So there’s nothing like a positive story to serve as a little tonic for the “All News is Negative” blues.

A Heliotrope employee told this story in a comment yesterday.

Good News Story of the Day

A customer, who had come into Heliotrope with her baby to shop, made her purchase and proceeded to her car parked across WePo in front of the CVS. She sat her bag on the sidewalk while she got her child seated for the ride home. Upon arriving home, she realized what she had done.

Meanwhile, one of Decatur’s great PALS, Jonathan Scheffel, while making his appointed rounds, noticed the bag in front of CVS with no car in that spot, saw the Heliotrope logo and dutifully took it to the store.

The customer made her way back to CVS to find the bag gone. She decided to take a wild chance (knowing that her goods had been lost) and came in the store. When she heard me call out that I was so happy she had come back, here are your things, she became visibly emotional, with me soon to follow, and said her faith in the inherent goodness of people had been fully restored. (She asked her girl, “What were we looking for?” “Bag,” she replied and pointed to the counter.)

Jonathan Scheffel – Today’s Decatur Hometown Hero!

Every news junkie,myself included, should remember that for every frightening crime or misdemeanor, there are perhaps hundreds of random acts of kindness that go unreported every day.

Look at this one story as the ambassador for hundreds of thousands of others.  Or even better, add your own “kind act” story below.

Marc at Heliotrope (who will also be featuring an artist reception for John Ishmael on Friday night) sends in all the deals for tomorrow night’s West Ponce Fab Friday event.

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Heliotrope sends in the details for tomorrow night’s “Fab Friday” along West Ponce.

Be rewarded for braving the rain with big discounts and free food & drinks!

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Both Heliotrope and Greene’s Fine Foods were featured as great holiday spots on Fox5’s Good Day Atlanta yesterday.

Watch the slightly over-the-top Fox5 correspondent talk her way thru Heliotrope here and here.

And watch her drool over a variety of treats at Greene’s here and here.

Thanks to Marc at Heliotrope for alerting me!