Young athletes skip training sessions and shovel the snow for their senior neighbors

Sometimes adverse weather conditions can be opportune and can be the perfect time to implement a wonderful gesture of kindness and solidarity. Although this statement may be puzzling, we assure you that once you have read the beautiful story we are about to tell you, you will understand perfectly what is meant by this. It all starts on a very cold January morning, when the Bethel Park High School football coach in the United States cancelled the weightlifting session for his young athletes due to snow.

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All the snow that had fallen that night had created more problems than the winter cold, which is why the school football coach, Brian DeLallo, advised all of his students not to show up that morning for the traditional weightlifting session. However, Brain had to carry out a much more urgent and supportive job: taking a shovel and shoveling the snow that had collected in the gardens and in the paths of elderly and disabled people of his neighborhoods - people who were alone and without help from anyone. These people would never have been able clear the dense, thick white blanket from outside their homes. Aidan and David, two of Brian's students, were very willing to help and, with a great sense of civic duty, answered Brian DeLallo's call for assistance.

David said: "I took some shovels and went to get Aidan, and we spent the next eight hours shoveling driveways and sidewalks for people we knew couldn't do it on their own. It was a fun way to spend the day. We continued to keep going until we cleared six houses. I love helping other people and I love the snow, so it was fun to exercise outside - it was great to see how happy people were when we showed up. "

In the end that day, following the extraordinary example of David and Aidan, 40 other students and young athletes also joined in with shovels and cleared all that snow away from the paths and gardens of senior citizens and people with disabilities in their neighborhoods. District officials reported the next day that the boys had shoveled snow from about 100 private homes!

This was a gesture of overwhelming solidarity and was particularly appreciated by the senior citizens of Bethel Park: "I've lived here for more than 40 years now, and acts of kindness like this are exactly why I've stayed so long and why I'm not leaving - ever. These young people have no idea how much something like this means to me and how much it makes me so proud to live here!” said Robert Klein, one of the elderly beneficiaries of this act of kindness.

Guys, you did great!