Area business helps the community beat the heat [Video]

JOPLIN, Mo. — A local business is helping the community stay cool during this heat wave.

Anyone who’s spent time outside this summer knows how hot it has been in recent weeks.

That’s got Bob Wolfe, owner of “Always Buying Books” in Joplin, thinking of the local homeless population, and how we can help them.

“What we want to do is, have someone come out and give them, we’ll have a bag of water, a towel, and a bag, and we want to just hand them out to people,” said Bob Wolfe, Always Buying Books owner.

He’s ordered 100 “cooling towels”, which he plans on handing out for free.

This is not the first time Wolfe has done something like this, the business owner tells us he often donates large amounts of books to local jails and prisons, and started a program earlier this year, where he sends checks to local schools, to pay off student overdue lunch balances.

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