Kangaroo Express is celebrating the heroes in our community by giving them ROO Cups. ROO Cups can be refilled with the beverage of your choice at over 1,500 Kangaroo Express convenience stores for just 25 cents each time, through September 30th, 2014. Throughout the summer, there will be other special deals for ROO Cup owners. On “Straw Days” owners with a particular color straw on their ROO Cup will get free refills. Also refills are free when a grill purchase is made, and certain snacks are discounted as well.
Nominate your home-town hero to win a free ROO Cup. Whether this person is a police officer, fire fighter, teacher, nurse, paramedic…that’s up to you. Just leave a comment to this post about the person.
You must be an email subscriber to Charlotte on the Cheap to win. It’s free to subscribe and subscribers get one email a day with links to all the new stories on Charlotte on the Cheap.
The winner will be randomly chose from eligible entries on Friday, June 20th. If you’re the winner, I’ll email you and put you in touch with a representative from Kangaroo Express, who will ask you for a mailing address. I’ll email you from cheapskate@charlotteonthecheap.com so please make sure that emails from this address don’t get marked as spam.
Note: you can also nominate your hero over on Kangaroo Express’ Facebook page, but the Charlotte on the Cheap contest is being run separately. Our winner will be chosen only from the comments to this post.
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Marci Mroz says
Picture a beautiful and statuesque woman with her arm wrapped gently around the slight shoulders of a Southeast Asian woman. Calmly and softly, she talks to the woman, using a combination of English and the woman’s native Jarai language. The Asian woman, shy and demure, exudes gratitude and trust — because Rachel Humphries is there with her, listening to her problems, helping her with a variety of issues, and just being her friend. Rachel is the Founder/Director of Refugee Support Services in Charlotte, NC. Rachel started RSS in an effort to provide assistance to these wonderful, yet very impoverished folks. Two of the main programs RSS runs are: (1) Fruitful Friends, a one-on-one assistance program whereby American families are paired with refugee families so that problems and issues can be handled using a personal approach; (2) Refugee Help Center, a weekly 2-hour gathering, free and open to all refugees, during which volunteers help refugees sort mail, make phone calls, discuss serious matters, photocopy things, etc. Hundreds of refugee families are helped due to Rachel’s efforts. Many benefit just by seeing Rachel’s smiling face and getting a hug of encouragement from her or her wise assistance. Although these people certainly have material needs, Rachel’s view is that it is so much more important to give people the tools they need to become self-sufficient, contributing members of society. The motto of RSS is “Arrive. Survive. Thrive.” Rachel is special because she gave up her paid teaching job to become the uncompensated leader of a unique organization that meets needs otherwise unmet. She has enlisted the help of a cadre of talented/ dedicated volunteers and knows exactly how to interact with them to keep their spirits up when things are tough and how to motivate/inspire them to continue on in this work that is so important. In addition to all of this, Rachel is a very active member of her church and a wonderful wife and mother of three children. There is no one in this city that I admire more than Rachel Humphries!
(Refugees, by the way, are persons who have been severely persecuted in their home countries and can no longer safely live or return there; Charlotte resettles refugees from Vietnam, Bhutan/Nepal, Burma/Myanmar, as well as from Africa and Iraq.)