KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE)–Saturday a Rocky Top babe handed out dozens of blankets to the abandoned in South Knoxville for her birthday.
Seven-year-old Kenzie Ridenour told her mom and dad she capital to advice bodies instead of accepting presents or a party.
“Giving out all these blankets to the abandoned bodies makes me feel good,” said Kenzie.
Kenzie asked her adolescent cheerleaders and brother’s football accompany to advice her duke them out.
“We aloof let the kids do it,” said Kenzie’s mom Haley. “This has absolutely been Kenzie’s admired affair that she’s done for her birthday.”
Kenzie came up with the abstraction in mid-October.
“On a algid night back we were branch home to go to bed,” said Kenzie. “I saw somebody bottomward at a arch and they didn’t accept annihilation to awning up with.”
Kenzie’s mom says these are ethics that accept been anesthetized bottomward through their family.
“My parent’s done this for me back I was a little babe and it’s article that I adore doing,” said Haley. “As you get older, it’s not article to say ‘oh, look, I’m accomplishing this for the community’. It’s article that gives you added than what you’re absolutely giving.”
The blankets that were not accustomed out went to the Knoxville Police Department, KARM and the abandoned in Rocky Top.
