The world needs more kind cowboys? Casper mayor declares ‘Random Acts of Kindness Week’
CASPER, Wyo. — Kindness Wyoming is an organization that partners with the national Random Acts of Kindness Foundation and is asking people to show acts of kindness during “Random Acts of Kindness Week” this February 13-19.
Kindness Wyoming member Chris Murray told the Casper City Council on Tuesday that Pathways Innovation Center has helped create “kindness coins” for the upcoming celebration of kindness. He said that the coins feature phrases like “The world needs more kindness,” which resembles the University of Wyoming’s slogan, “The world needs more cowboys.” Murray said that the kindness coin with the phrase “The world needs more kindness” features an image of Steamboat, the cowboy and bucking horse symbol.
Murray told the council that he “literally just came from a kindness kit packing party” in which kits were prepared for schools, businesses and families that had ordered them through Kindness Wyoming. He said that the organization will be sending out the kindness kits and kindness tokens as a way to encourage people to show kindness toward others.
Casper Mayor Ray Pacheco read a proclamation declaring February 13-19 as “Casper Random Acts of Kindness Week.” The proclamation said that the city “recognizes the value of acts of kindness that are performed without prompting or reason,” adding that acts of kindness can have positive impacts not only on the person receiving kindness, but also for the person offering it as well as people witnessing it.
“Kind individuals can create a more caring community and help to perpetuate genuine acts of kindness within their city, state and even throughout the world,” Pacheco read.
The proclamation encourages citizens to engage in random acts of kindness during “Random Acts of Kindness Week.”