After a week off, we’ve rounded up some Feel Good Friday stories for you to enjoy…
1. A 14-year-old in Minnesota named Connor Halso was fishing with his dad on a lake famous for walleye . . . but instead, hooked a wallet with $2,000 inside. They could have kept it, but did the right thing and used a business card inside to track down the owner. It belonged to a farmer named Jim Denney. He says it fell out of his pocket while he was fishing a year ago. He offered Connor some money as a reward, but Connor refused. So he bought him a nice personalized fishing cooler to say thanks.
2. A woman dropped her phone in a lake in New Hampshire, but got it back after a random guy on a pontoon boat dove in and rescued it in 15 feet of water. (Here’s the video.)
3. A baby giraffe with no spots was just born at a zoo in Tennessee, and could be the only spotless giraffe in the world. She’s solid brown without the yellow patches other giraffes have. (Here’s a photo.) Experts say it’s a good thing she’s in captivity. Their spots act as camouflage, so she’d have a pretty low chance of making it in the wild. They’re letting people vote on what to name her, but aren’t taking suggestions. The four choices are Kipekee, Firali, Shakiri, and Jamella. (Giraffey McGiraffeFace isn’t an option.)
4. An animal shelter in Scotland saved a baby squirrel found sleeping under a chicken. They think it got separated from its mom . . . crawled under the hen to get warm . . . and say the chicken didn’t seem to mind. They plan to release the squirrel back into the wild once it’s older. (Here’s a photo.)
5. Back in 2018, a cop in Salt Lake City named David Romrell was tragically killed in the line of duty, leaving his four-month-old son Jackson without a dad. But now Jackson is in the news after he started kindergarten on Monday, and a bunch of “fill-in Dads” walked him to school. His mom held his hand, and over a dozen cops walked alongside them. (Here’s a photo.)
6. An 84-year-old woman in Colorado named Kim Knor has set a goal to go skydiving 1,000 times before she dies. She’s already done about 600 jumps. Her first was in 1959 when she was 20 years old. Then she took a 37-year break before taking it back up. She just did three more jumps the other day.
7. Around 200 kids in Reading, Pennsylvania got new bikes and helmets this month after hitting their reading goals this summer. It’s part of a program run by United Way called “Bikes for Books.”
8. A mom in Texas accidentally called 911 last month while searching for her son’s lost soccer ball outside their house. A cop showed up to do a welfare check, just in case. She told him what happened, and joked that if he happened to see the ball, let her know. Two minutes later, he showed back up with the soccer ball. (Here’s a photo.)
9. The odds of this are nuts: Two kids got adopted separately by the same family in Staten Island two decades ago . . . and just found out they’re biological siblings. Their names are Frank and Victoria. He’s 22, and got adopted after someone left him on the steps of a daycare. Then a year-and-a-half later, the same couple adopted Victoria after she was found abandoned in a hospital bathroom. Their adoptive parents didn’t tell them the full story until a few months ago. They recently decided to take DNA tests to see if they had any family out there. When they got the results, they found out they’re FULL biological siblings with the same mother AND father. Even the adoption agency had no idea.
10. A 13-year-old jump-roping cat from Missouri just broke a world record by skipping rope nine times in 60 seconds. His name is Kit Kat. His owner says they’ve had to start limiting his jump-roping, because he’s getting up there in age. But he’s now an official Guinness World Record holder. (Here’s the video.)
11. 32-year-old Collette Divitto has Down syndrome, and struggled to get a job after college. So with her mom’s help, she started her own business instead. She’s always loved baking. So in 2015, she launched a company called Collettey’s Cookies and got ONE store to start selling them. Then things grew from there. A TV station in Boston just did a story on her, because she has around 15 employees, including others with disabilities. And Collettey’s Cookies are now sold in over 1,000 stores across the country.
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