Lately, all the talk has been of people coming together to donate money and help where they can post-Sept .11. Even more heartening is the knowledge that some people were doing good works before the terrorist attacks.

A prime example of this is little Paul "Andy" Williams, a third grader from Maple Leaf who raised over $2,200 for the Alzheimers Memory Walk in September.

Williams, who lost both a grandmother and a grandfather to Alzheimers, first participated in the walk in 1999, at the time giving a few dollars of his own money. The next year Williams got some advice on fundraising from Nellie Claringbould, a resident of the Ida Culver House in Broadview who has raised money for the walk for the last nine years. That time Williams raised nearly $350.

For the 2001 walk at Sand Point-Magnuson Park, Williams set his sights even higher with a goal of $500. He did everything from selling candles to hosting a carnival in his back yard to raise the money and even got a matching pledge from one his mother's former colleges. With that match, Williams more than quadrupled his original goal.

When asked is she thought her son was a future professional fund raiser, Beth Rollinger, William's mother, said, " He's got a lot of charm for engaging people. Who knows where he will end up?" (