Time for another round of Feel Good Friday stories…
1. There’s a guy in Alaska named Billy Ray Macon Sr. graduated from Anchorage High School way back in 1961. But they put a stamp on his diploma that said he only met the MINIMUM requirements to graduate. So he was always ashamed of that. But his granddaughter just fixed it by surprising him with a NEW diploma for his 80th birthday. She got in touch with the high school, and the current principal put together a small graduation ceremony just for him.
2. For the second year in a row, a florist in North Carolina named Ashley Manning did something pretty amazing for Valentine’s Day widows. She raised a bunch of money and delivered flowers to women whose husbands are no longer with us. Her original goal last year was 25 bouquets, but she ended up doing 121 of them. This year, she did about 400, and nice bouquets too. Each one would have cost $150. Over 100 people volunteered and helped deliver them.
3. Here’s one more out of the U.K.: Last summer, a 52-year-old named Steve Walther had a heart attack while he was out walking his dog with a friend named Emma Brooks. But Emma did CPR and saved his life. And now eight months later, they’re a couple.
4. A couple in North Carolina had a baby this month. He was born on 2-2-22 . . . at exactly 2:22 in the afternoon. Well, we know what this kid’s lucky number is.
5. A group of middle schoolers in New Hampshire are amped right now after a small, six-foot-long boat they launched in 2020 just washed up in NORWAY 462 days later. It traveled 8,300 miles and was covered in barnacles.
6. An 81-year-old guy in Florida is training to compete in the World Ironman Championship later this year. It’s happening in Hawaii in October, and he’ll be the oldest person there. But this ain’t his first rodeo. It’ll be the 20th time he’s done it.
7. A guy in Pennsylvania saved his neighbors from a fire on Wednesday. They were trapped upstairs, so he grabbed a ladder . . . crawled under the smoke . . . and pulled a woman out. Then he went back in to get her baby . . . went in a third time to save another girl . . . and then a fourth time to save their dog. Everyone survived.
8. Three months ago, a five-year-old boy from Texas named Ezekiel Burnett lost his favorite teddy bear at the Milwaukee airport. He was tossing it in the air, and it got stuck in some rafters. So there was no way to get it down, and he was devastated. But he just got it back this week after the airport launched a huge social media campaign to find him. Workers discovered the bear last month, and the airport posted photos across all its social media accounts. Ezekiel’s dad eventually found out about it. And on Tuesday, Southwest flew the two of them back to Milwaukee for a big teddy bear reunion.
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