Let’s enjoy these Feel Good Friday Stories….
1. Remember last week, when a guy with no flying experience landed a plane in Florida after the pilot passed out? Well, it turned out that pilot had a “severe cardiac event” . . . basically, a big tear in his aorta. But because passenger Darren Harrison landed so quickly, he survived it. He got released on Monday, and he’s home recovering.
2. A U.S. Marine vet, Marvin and his daughter SaNayah both just graduated from the same community college in Virginia at the same time. She’s only 17 and still a junior in high school. He earned his associate’s degree in applied science in management, she completed her career studies certificate in emergency medical service as a dual-enrollment student.
3. 20 kidney donors recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for living kidney donations. They wanted to show you can still do anything with one kidney.
4. In March, an 11-year-old named Elyjah Blankenberg got some baseball cards signed at a Yankees spring training game. Then someone stole the binder they were in. But ESPN just did a big follow-up after random people sent him THEIR signed stuff. It took four hours to open all the packages. He got baseballs signed by Nolan Ryan, Sammy Sosa, and Greg Maddux . . . the Orioles sent him a game-used third base signed by the whole team . . . and his favorite player DJ LeMahieu signed some stuff. But the coolest thing he got was a ball signed by Mickey Mantle and the 1968 Yankees. A guy named Steve Sample got it 54 years ago after he was attacked by a SHARK as a kid. He says it helped with his recovery, and he thought it was time to pass it on. Elyjah’s parents say they’ve caught him sleeping with it in his bed a few times.
5. The 285 graduates of the Otis College of Art and Design in L.A. received a surprise graduation gift on Sunday when Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel and his wife KORA Organics CEO Miranda Kerr announced they’d pay off all of the Class of 2022’s student loan debt through a donation to the school.
6. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a dog that got lost overboard off the coast of North Carolina. Their crews received a call about a dog named Myla going overboard in the Pamlico Sound, the U.S. Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet said on Facebook. A crew spotted the dog and hauled Myla on board, and the exhausted pup was given “VIP treatment by the crew.” Myla was eventually reunited with the dog’s owners.
7. A Frontier Airlines crew helped a woman give birth mid-flight in one of the plane’s restrooms. They were flying from Denver to Orlando and made an emergency landing in Pensacola, but the kid had already arrived by then. One of the flight attendants helped with the delivery. Mom and baby are both okay.
8. A member of an endangered species that lives at the Oklahoma City Zoo had just been announced to be giving birth this fall. The female Okapi named Kayin is pregnant with her first baby calf. Okapis are threatened by illegal hunting, habitat loss, and mining practices in Central Africa. Tracey Dolphin, the zoo’s curator of hoofstock and primates, said, “An okapi birth is a significant event not only for our animal family, but for the okapi population as a whole.”
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