When frustrated by the negativity in the national media last year, Blanco resident Dave Lageman consider what he could do to make things better. “I thought of kindness and went to the internet and found the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation,” he said. “I enlisted a friend, who agreed with the approach and soon we had four people making decisions to form a group.” By last October, one person had completed a “major” act, according to Lageman.