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| Tanya Shannon, Mom of Four Kids, Disappears After Holiday Party - ABC News Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:53 AM PST Dec. 7, 2010 Footprints in a snowbank are the only clues for officers searching for a Chicago woman who vanished after walking away from a late night car crash that left her husband dead in the driver's seat. A massive manhunt is underway for Tanya Shannon, a 40-year-old mother of four, who has been missing since early Sunday morning when authorities from the LaSalle County Sheriff's office located her crashed car on the side of a rural road. In the driver's seat of the car was Shannon's dead husband, 41-year-old Dale Shannon, according to Sheriff Tom Templeton. "She and her husband were at a company Christmas party Saturday night. They left the party heading to a family's house and on the way had a traffic-related accident in which Mr. Shannon was killed," Templeton told ABC News. "From the evidence that we've seen, Shannon was able to get out of the vehicle and go up to the roadway." "From there we have no idea where she went," he said. Templeton said that while alcohol was available at the party it does appear that the car crash was an accident. Further toxicology reports are being ordered, he said. Footprints from a "slipper-like" shoe were found leading away from the car and up to the road, said Templeton, and one of the slippers was also located by the first responders. Inside the car, a pair of high-heeled shoes were also found. "Her family tells us that she was a loving mother and very committed to her children," said Templeton. "Not being in contact with her family is completely out of character for her." Shannon's children range in age from 3 to 15. "We have to consider that someone might have picked her up," he said. "She just seems to have disappeared." The search resumed today for the third day, Templeton said, and about 50 people have joined the rescue effort. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Good is afoot as Toms Shoes donates its millionth pair - Denver Post Posted: 07 Dec 2010 09:48 AM PST In a world where fashion and charity are usually associated with glitzy high-society events, a shoe company has proven that anyone can help save the world — one pair of funky canvas shoes at a time. "Buy a pair, give a pair" remains the motto of Toms Shoes, which started four years ago in a little barn outside Buenos Aires, with 12 people stitching together slightly more fashionable versions of the traditional slip-on alpargatas worn by Argentine cowboys for centuries. The company gave away 10,000 pairs to poor Argentine children that first year, in soup kitchens, schools and Guarani Indian communities. Helped by a vigorous Internet marketing strategy, Toms Shoes quickly caught on, especially after  Toms women's Plum Cord Classics. (Toms Shoes) The giving has expanded, too — to 28 countries and counting, with other factories opening in China and Ethiopia to meet the demand. A few weeks ago, founder Blake Mycoskie's dream came true when the company donated its millionth pair of shoes, to a poor child in Argentina's Misiones province, where Toms has supported Guarani Indian communities. The milestone is "an opportunity to say thank you to the million people who have bought Toms Shoes," Mycoskie told The Associated Press while visiting Argentina. "We see it as the beginning of what we hope will be something greater — we're helping kids avoid diseases like hookworm in Guatemala, and podoconiosis in Ethiopia — a terribly debilitating disease that's completely preventable with shoes." Mycoskie, an entrepreneur who tasted fame as a contestant in "The Amazing Race" reality show, discovered the traditional $4 version of the shoe during a polo-playing vacation to Buenos Aires, where he learned of a shoe drive being organized for the city's poor. He quickly saw an opportunity, founding the company with his Argentine polo instructor, Alejo Nitti. They redesigned the austere alpargatas, adding bright colors and patterns and replacing the traditional jute sole with rubber, and began selling them for $38 each, promising to donate a pair to a poor Argentine child for every pair sold. This simple idea turned out to be a great fashion equalizer: "It's not very often that a 14-year-old or a 16-year-old can contribute to a charity or a cause. And because our shoes are very moderately priced — $44 to $45 is the classic — it allows young people to participate," Mycoskie said. The latest Toms trend is the wedge. "It's crazy — the wedge has been huge. I've been having women come to me and say 'Blake, I love your shoes but I do not wear flats, I'm not that tall. For the longest time I was like, 'I don't know, it doesn't really fit the particular style of Toms.' And then I thought, well, in Latin America, the espadrille wedge is traditional — the shoes that have a rope sole. So I decided, why not? "It took me about a year and a half to design it, but once I did, it just exploded. It's our No. 1 selling shoe. We can't make them fast enough," he said. The company's business model builds into the cost of each purchased pair the costs associated with donating a pair — usually the classic black unisex model because black is the color required for school in many countries. Toms Shoes now hopes to expand further by working with developing-world entrepreneurs to set up local factories, particularly in countries where barefoot children are vulnerable to tropical diseases. "We've heard from the Haitian government that shoes are critical now that there is so much debris on the ground. We're actually working with the Clinton Foundation and several other foundations to distribute a lot of shoes there over the next year," Mycoskie said. Giving shoes away in Ethiopia taught Mycoskie something else — that charity alone isn't sustainable. "We were making shoes halfway across the world and sending them on a boat, wasting all this energy and money, where we could just make them right in Addis Ababa and put them on a truck right to the people who need them," he said. "What I learned was, there wasn't very sophisticated production, but with 80 million people living in Ethiopia, they do have the capacity to do this." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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