LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – A papal missionary donated $5,000 in gift cards to TSA workers at Blue Grass Airport on Saturday, part of a nationwide effort to help federal employees working without pay during the partial government shutdown.
Father Jim Sichko, papal missionary for Pope Leo the 14th, distributed restaurant and Amazon gift cards to TSA workers as the shutdown reached its sixth-week mark.
“My whole philosophy was here are people who show up for us without getting paid, so why don’t we show up and show kindness and mercy,” Sichko said…