{"id":8230,"date":"2015-08-29T22:37:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T05:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=8230"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:38:37","slug":"94-year-old-veteran-has-spent-decade-cheering-on-students-with-life-advice-and-fist-bumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2015\/08\/29\/94-year-old-veteran-has-spent-decade-cheering-on-students-with-life-advice-and-fist-bumps\/","title":{"rendered":"94-Year-old Veteran Has Spent Decade Cheering on Students With Life Advice and Fist Bumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By\u00a0McKinley Corbley]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This \u201ccute little old man\u201d is making a big difference in the lives of local youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>For the last 10 years, Wally Richardson has been standing outside of\u00a0Marina Village Middle School in El Dorado Hills, California so he can greet all of the students with life advice and fist bumps before they start their school day.<\/p>\n<p>The 94-year-old veteran was recently brought into the spotlight when Gina Arnold was dropping her daughter Audrey off at school earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey specifically asked if she could be dropped off at the corner of the school so she could talk to the \u201ccute little old man\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked who this mystery stranger was, Audrey told her mother: \u201cHe stands at the steps where you drop me off and encourages all the students as they walk in. He talks about kindness and gives us advice and fist bumps! It\u2019s the best part of the day!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, when Gina drove to the aforementioned steps, she saw Richardson standing amongst a crowd of delighted students. She then took a photo of the exchange and\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\">posted it to Facebook<\/a>\u00a0with words of praise for the senior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is exactly the kind of love and support our middle schoolers need,\u201d wrote Gina. \u201cThis man stands out side the school every day and gives the gift of encouragement to every student that comes near him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richardson simply says that he enjoys talking to the kids because he wants to leave a positive legacy in the area \u2013 and clearly, his efforts have worked.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a mural on the school wall that is filled with some of the veteran\u2019s most precious bits of wisdom so that it can serve hundreds of students in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Gina told\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\">Inside Edition<\/a>\u00a0that there are even kids in college who still remember and benefit from the advice Richard gave them in their younger years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI strive to be like this guy as much as possible,\u201d says Gina. \u201cWe all should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be Sure And Pass On This Positive Message Of Kindness To Your Friends<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em>Photo by Gina Michelle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0McKinley Corbley] This \u201ccute little old man\u201d is making a big difference in the lives of local youngsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8231,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}