News Exercise #50

Truck Driver ‘Hero’

Questions:
1) He is a sanitation truck driver, but one of the people he helped used a different name. Could you catch it?
2) What do his ‘love bags’ contain?
3) For how long has he been doing this?
4) At 1:16 he says: “It’s hard to ___ ___, ___ ___ ___ ___, ___ ___ ___… that’s it.”
5) For his shop GCT, where does the food come from? (1:44)
6) Who is the GTC shop for?
7) At 2:24 a GCT customer says, “A lot of times you ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___, and so Teresa, she just ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___, and Arnold’s right there behind her, you know? Together ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

 

Answers:

1) trash truck driver
2) Food, toiletries and blankets
3) 7 years
4) At 1:16 he says: “It’s hard to go home, sit at a table, eat a meal… that’s it.”
5) He convinced large companies and local stores to donate.
6) It is for low-income and homeless families.
7) “A lot of times you find yourself in situations where you lose hope, and so Teresa, she just gives you that shop of hope and Arnold’s right there behind her, you know? Together they make an awesome team.