Here are some more Feel Good Friday Stories for this week….
1. An 83-year-old grandmother in Iowa named “Grandma Bette” reads children’s books on her Facebook page each night. She started doing it back in April, and now has more than 3,000 people following her page. (Check it out, here.)
2. A mother in Island Heights, New Jersey called police recently after she locked her kid in her minivan. The responding cop, Rocco Mellott, asked if he could smash a window because it was very hot, and he wanted to get the kid out ASAP. The woman agreed, so he broke the window . . . got the kid . . . and then he got his unit to donate the money to cover the cost of the window.
3. California became the first state to offer free lunches as an option for ALL public school students, regardless of the family’s income. It’s the largest free student lunch program in the country. Maine is also following with a similar plan.
4. A North Carolina man named Gene Elliott recently celebrated his 95th birthday, by ROLLER SKATING. He’s been lacing up his skates since he was five . . . when Calvin Coolidge was president. (Here’s video of Gene skating.)
5. A couple recently flew out of New York to go on a honeymoon to Guam, but shortly after going through security, they noticed that the diamond was missing from the woman’s engagement ring. So, they alerted the TSA. No one could find it, but five hours later . . . after the couple left . . . an agent saw a sparkle on the floor between the metal detector and the X-ray machine, and it was the diamond. He messaged the couple, and they got it when they returned
6. A six-year-old girl in Mississippi called 911 last week and hung up. So they called back . . . and she said she just wanted to tell the sheriff she’s LOVES him. He showed up at her house two days later with a bunch of school supplies for her.
7. A bunch of high school students in Maryland built a baby carrier attachment for wheelchairs, so their teacher’s husband could take his baby out with him. And they’ve now won two awards for it. It’s called the WheeStroll.
8. Back in May, a five-year-old boy named Meyer Mixdorf was being treated for brain cancer at a children’s hospital in Missouri. And his parents used sticky notes to make a face on his window to cheer him up. Then someone across the street started doing it. It turned out to be a medical worker in another building named Johnna Schindlbeck. They traded window art messages for weeks, and each one got more and more impressive. By the end, they were doing full pictures of Super Mario and Iron Man. She didn’t even know who Meyer was for a while, but finally got to meet him last week when his MRI came back clean and he got discharged.
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