Behind the Headlines

Update: The story of Margaret Stevens, the woman whose golf cart was nabbed, seemed to reach all kinds of different people. Margaret’s daughter, Kathleen, originally wrote a letter to the newspaper on what was lost during the burglary and we thought it would make a good story.

I liked the idea of doing the story because, while we often report on crimes that happen, it’s rare that we report on the other side of that unless the person is physically harmed. Even then, it’s usually just the straight facts, though occasionally we’ll get an in-depth perspective from a victim. So the end result was what I suspected would happen.

Kathy and Margaret were contacted by different people - all wanting to either offer sympathies and to tell them to keep faith or to offer them some sort of transportation for Margaret since she couldn’t get around as well without the golf cart.

Eventually a couple donors came up with another golf cart. A year older than the original, but just as zippy and just as liberating than the one that was stolen. Though they had to go through the ordeal, they ended up with their faith in people reinvigorated.

Read more about it soon in the MEN.