Richmond mom’s Facebook plea saves 10-year-old’s birthday party

RICHMOND, Ky. (LEX 18) — A birthday party that was supposed to be filled with fun, laughter and celebration turned into a 10-year-old boy sitting by the window, waiting for everyone to arrive. When no one showed up to her son Bentley’s birthday party, Katie Pierce took matters into her own hands. The mother of the fourth-grader posted to a Richmond Facebook moms group, asking for anyone to come and offering free food and arcade games at Galaxy Bowling Alley. “I was thinking if we could get just one kid to come maybe it would change his day,” Pierce said. The community responded in a big way. Paige Kelley, a local mom, saw the post when her mother sent her a screenshot. “My mom came over and was hanging out with us and then she left and a couple hours went by and she sent me the screenshot and I was like, ‘We have got to go,” Kelley said. Jackie Johnson, another Richmond mother, felt compelled to help after reading Pierce’s plea. “She was asking for anyone to come and that nobody had shown up and it was just like a punch to my gut,” Johnson said. Camden Burke, who
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