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I answered the question "have you ever been mentioned in the newspaper". I have thought of some more.
I wrote letters to the editor a couple of times. One letter was about how to cross the street in Sandpoint, Idaho,including my advice on the proper attitude. After spending time politely waiting for the traffic to stop so I could cross, I realized that "waiters never walk".  So my advice was to tride boldly into the crosswalk, look  the driver in the car  in the eye and just dare them  to hit you.  It really worked.

Or maybe it was the kids, fanning out into the crosswalk in front of me with their arms extended, hands flagging traffic to a stop.

Another time  letter I wrote to "The Sandpoint Daily Bee" was about my sister attending a performance of Bye, Bye Birdies. Keith & I and some of the kids were in it. She was still in the stage of her MS diagnois where they were ruling out things. No body knew why she kept falling down, but she sure as hell couldn't walk. She didn't believe it though. The guys carried her into the Panida Theater (from a service entrance near the stage) and she watched the show. I saw a card not long after that, the picture was of two old women (probably my age now) with old cloth coats and pillbox hats askew on their heads,  one of the old women was carrying the other old woman on her back- the caption: She ain't heavy, she's my sister.