It’s been nearly a year since I wrote about Fred Iacovoni, Jr., who blesses his father with pictures and videos of his hunting and fishing escapades, because the father is largely unable to get around like he used to. It’s living vicariously, but in a healthy way.

There were a handful of feel-good stories that focused on lost and found. A wallet missing for decades finally made its way back to its owner. A class ring gone some 30 years now encircles the correct finger. And most recently, I shared the story of Cory Johnson, an emotionally challenged youngster from a Grand Rapids Public School who returned $21 found in a purse he’d won at auction for his grandmother.

Since that column ran last month, several people have stepped forward to reward Cory for his honesty. He’s received at least $100 cash from anonymous sources, and basketball shoes and more from a Rockford man who felt compelled to honor the 12-year-old. “He was really glad to get those new shoes; his other ones were wore out,” Cory’s grandmother, Jessie Johnson, told me this past Friday.

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