Damon Burton is a web developer in Layton, Utah. He’s also a
husband, a father of two young boys, and a former recipient of subsidized
school lunch programs. This Christmas season, he didn’t have to look very far
to find a way to pay it forward. “I benefited from free and reduced lunch programs
throughout the entirety of my schooling,” he reports, “and over the years I
wanted to figure out some way to give back.” He called seventeen schools in the
Davis district and asked if he could pay off their outstanding lunch balances. The
bill came to $2,000. At Antelope Elementary School alone, his generosity gave
37 families one less thing to worry about. Damon had intended to make his
donation anonymously, but one of his friends decided the story was too good to
keep to himself. It’s true what Benjamin Franklin once said: “Three can keep a
secret, if two of them are dead.”
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