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A teenager finally got the chance to say thank you to the delivery driver who saved his life.

Last week, 17-year-old Cody Kennedy had close call when started choking on a piece of candy while on his drive home. He couldn’t breathe and was forced to pull over along Ronald Reagan Parkway. Within seconds, a UPS driver was there to rescue him.

“I knew there was definitely something wrong,” said UPS driver Darren Collins

Collins saw a car pull over and the driver fall out. Collins stopped his UPS truck and started running towards the teenager.

Shares of United Parcel Service Inc. climbed 0.7% in morning trade Tuesday, after the package delivery service received a double upgrade at Raymond James, which cited an “underappreciated” outlook for the companies domestic business and free cash flow (FCF). Analyst Patrick Brown raised his rating two notches to strong buy from market perform, and set a new stock price target of $150, which is 21% above current levels.

The news also comes on heels of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recent global economic outlook that anticipated Asia to maintain its robust performance with growth at 6.5 percent in 2018 and 2019.

“The global economy is now a much bigger playing field and far less hierarchical than in the past. Shifting geopolitical forces, free trade agreements and a surge in connectivity through new technologies and physical infrastructure have allowed businesses from practically every market, including those in Asia, to take their products and services to customers anywhere in the world,” said UPS Asia Pacific Region president Ross McCullough.

Family and friends will gather on Sunday and Monday at the Kurtz Funeral Chapel in New Lenox to mourn the loss of 55-year-old New Lenox resident Thomas Mulka, a 34-year employee for UPS who was killed tragically on Tuesday evening in nearby Bolingbrook. Mulka died at the Vistar business during a work-related fatality.

United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) has launched a strong partnership to hire community residents for its new UPS SMART hub facility on Fulton Industrial Boulevard.

It has been working with the Center for Working Families, the United Way of Greater Atlanta and a total of 60 nonprofits on a recruitment drive to hire people who live near the new UPS SMART hub.

“It’s really special,” said Africa Roberson, workforce development manager for the Center for Working Families. “It shows that UPS really cares about community. They really wanted to make this a blueprint and be part of the community. We’ve had a huge level of support for this.”