Four Log Cabins

Every weekend for the past decade, Bob Williams has walked into the dollar store in Long Grove, Iowa, to buy a box of Hershey's chocolate bars. He opens the box before he leaves the store. He usually hands the first chocolate bar to the person running the cash register and one to each of the people behind him in line. Then Bob leaves the store to find other people who might be in need of a chocolate bar. Over the past ten years or so, Bob has bought and handed out roughly 6,000 Hershey’s bars. Why? “It puts smiles on their faces,” he says. “And it just makes me feel good.” A Long Grove magazine did a story about Bob’s one-man chocolate charity, and it came to the attention of The Hershey Company. Hershey’s wants to lend a hand. They say they’ll make sure Bob has “all the chocolate bars he’ll ever need.”