Tulare, California’s Daniela Earnest and her family will go to Disneyland after all and they won’t have to wait until they’ve raised enough money. KSEQ Q97 host Davey D gave the family four tickets to “The Happiest Place on Earth” after learning that Daniela’s lemonade stand, set up to raise funds for the trip, had been shut down by a Tulare code enforcement officer. “This is a huge deal for her,” said Daniela’s father, Ed Earnest. During his afternoon show Tuesday, Davey D recounted Daniela’s ordeal with the city. The 8-year-old Tulare Christian School student had set up the stand at Cartmill Avenue and Hillman Street, only to be shut down. “[Davey D] was really upset when he heard about the story. He has a 9-year-old boy,” said Daniela’s mother, Marisa Earnest.

From their website, I learned that the Freeport Flag Ladies are three women who start each Tuesday morning by standing on Main Street in Freeport, Maine, wearing our country’s colors and waving the American flag. As their website says, “We have held our ground in rain, sleet and snow with temperatures so cold that our fingers and toes were numb and with the summer sun beating down on us.”

But it gets better.

From their website: The Freeport Flag Ladies often make the long drive to Bangor to join the Maine Troop Greeters at Bangor International Airport and to Pease International in New Hampshire to meet troop flights. Depending upon weather and construction it takes between two and three hours each way. The Freeport Flag Ladies have greeted thousands of soldiers from all over this great nation who were being deployed, or returning home after long deployments.

In addition to greeting the troops, the Freeport Flag ladies will take as many photos as they can for their website, and offer their cell phones so departing soldiers can say “goodbye” before leaving the United States.