<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of WTAE (Pittsburgh, PA) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/bj3fsd2">http://tinyurl.com/bj3fsd2</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shoe shiner donates $200K in tips to children in need</span></font></h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span class="authorLocation" style="font-weight: bold; float: left; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PITTSBURGH -</span></span><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> It starts before dawn in the Pittsburgh darkness as the 88 Penn pulls up in front of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Albert Lexie gets off.</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For 32 years, Lexie has been examining his schedule each morning, like a doctor on the clock. But the longtime shoe shiner’s gift isn’t healing, it’s giving back.<br></span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A shoe shine costs $5, but Lexie said customers have been generous with their tips since he started working at the hospital in 1981.</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Most of them give $6, some of them give $7,” Lexie told Channel 4 Action News anchor Wendy Bell.</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And Lexie gives every cent of his tips back to the children.</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I think he does it because he loves the kids,” said Dr. Joseph Carcillo. “He's donated over a third of his lifetime salary to the Children’s Hospital Free Care Fund.”</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The money goes to parents of sick children who can’t afford to pay medical costs.</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“He's a philanthropist, is what he is,” said Carcillo. “He's an entrepreneur.”</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lexie has donated $200,000 to the cause, bringing in several hundred dollars a week.</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I had a doctor who gave me a $50 bill for Christmas,” he told Bell with a laugh. For a simple man who’s been shining shoes since about 1957, Lexie admits, “It’s good to be a hero.”</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Albert Lexie</span></p><p xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; "><img src="cid:33638845-09E9-4599-AB8F-8A04AE734739" alt="Albert-Lexie-pushing-cart.jpg" id="33638845-09E9-4599-AB8F-8A04AE734739" width="640" height="360"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>