Time for another round of Feel Good Friday stories rounded up from near and far!
1. A couple in Rhode Island were at a seafood restaurant when they found a pearl in a clam, which is rare. They’re much more common in oysters. So they hung onto it for two years, and the guy just used it to PROPOSE this month. She said yes, and they went back to the same seafood place to celebrate.
2. How’s this for an adventure? A former British paratrooper spent six years walking the entire coastline of the United Kingdom to raise money for a veterans’ charity. He just finished after 19,000 miles. When he left in 2017, he was a single dad, and his daughter had just left for college. Now six years later, he showed back up with a dog he adopted along the way . . . a woman he got engaged to . . . and a new SON who recently turned one year old. He also raised half-a-million bucks.
3. A 16-year-old kid in Georgia named Keonte Evans was doing yard work to help buy his siblings some new school clothes. And if he made enough, he was hoping to buy himself a PlayStation 5 as well. But then some idiot saw him working, and called the cops because they assumed he was trespassing. Check this out though: A cop named Eric Colleran responded to the call. And he was so impressed by Keonte, he came back a few days later . . . with a PlayStation 5. He and his friends pooled their money to buy it for him. He said he wanted to show Keonte that if you work hard, good things come your way.
4. A farmer in Kansas named Lee Wilson has his 50th anniversary coming up next Thursday. And sunflowers are his wife’s favorite. So he surprised her by planting 1.2 MILLION of them. They’ve been together since high school.
5. A woman in Houston named Callie Clemens has been climbing through sewers for the past week, trying to rescue a litter of puppies that fell in. She’s rescued at least two of them, but a third might still be down there.
6. A 17-year-old girl from Iowa was on a trip to Texas with her school choir this month when she lost her most prized possession . . . a ring her grandma gave her with some of her dad’s ashes in it. He passed away when she was seven. She took it off at the beach because she was worried it would fall off in the water. Then it got thrown out with some trash. But she got it back after three city workers spent hours sifting through four tons of garbage to find it.
7. A major potential breakthrough in the fight against cancer was announced yesterday. Researchers at City of Hope in Los Angeles came up with a targeted chemotherapy PILL that only attacks the tumor, not your whole body. They’re testing it on humans now. But in lab settings, it’s already eradicated a bunch of different cancers, including breast, prostate, brain, skin, and lung cancer. Experts are saying it could be the “holy grail” of cancer treatments.
8. A fire department in Georgia hosted a summer camp just for girls. Over three days, they got to see what it takes to be a firefighter . . . use the hoses and ladders . . . and learn skills like CPR. One girl said she’d really only thought of firefighting as a man’s job, but feels like she’s “capable of anything” now.
9. A dad in Missouri bought a lottery ticket on his birthday last month, and won $50,000. Then he won another hundred bucks when his son said, “I’ll bet $100 you’re lying.” We’re guessing he won’t be making his son pay up though.
10. A 70-year-old woman from North Carolina just got married after beating cancer two years ago, and had her doctors walk her down the aisle. She said she just “couldn’t celebrate life without the people that worked so hard to give it to [her].” (Here’s a photo.)
11. You see buried treasure in movies a lot, but not in real life: A guy in Kentucky recently found 800 gold coins from the Civil War buried in his cornfield. An appraiser said they’re worth around $2 MILLION.
12. A 65-year-old man in Massachusetts told his boss he was retiring last month, and gave his two weeks’ notice. Then he bought a scratcher three days later . . . won a million bucks . . . and still finished out his two weeks. He says he kept it a secret, and didn’t tell anyone at work.
13. Police were called to a California home where a bear was discovered taking a dip in the backyard pool to beat the summer heat. The Burbank Police Department posted a video to Facebook showing the bear lounging in a resident’s backyard pool amid 92-degree heat. Burbank Animal Shelter personnel and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife also responded to the scene, police said. The responders monitored the bear until it left the water and was seen climbing a nearby tree for a nap.
14. A family fishing off the coast of Massachusetts captured video of the rare moment three humpback whales jumped out of the water in unison. Robert Addie said he was fishing with his daughters and son-in-law near Provincetown when he started recording video of some nearby whales. Addie’s footage captured the moment three of the whales breached at the same time, followed by a nearby juvenile a few moments later. “I’ve been on the water a long time. I’ve worked sword and tuna out of Gloucester. I worked fishing in Alaska as a young man and I’ve seen a lot of whales,” Addie said. “I’ll tell you, I’ve never seen a triple in sync like that.” Philip Hamilton, senior scientist at the New England Aquarium, said whales have been known to breach in unison, but three at the same time is a “bit rarer” to see. “God was shining down on my family,” Addie said. “It was just a fantastic day on the water.”
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