It’s always great to share some positive Feel Good Friday Stories with you…
1. There’s a guy who turned tragedy into triumph: 52-year-old Bill Bowden lives near L.A. And sadly, his wife of 26 years passed away in 2019. So at that point, he didn’t know how to keep going . . . until a coworker encouraged him to start exercising. He was the heaviest he’d ever been at that point . . . about 280 pounds . . . but he started biking every day. And since then, he’s lost almost 120 pounds. He’s down to 162 now, and just did his first triathlon last Saturday.
2. A guy in Maryland started a business last year called Toa Waters that sells bubble baths for men. And to celebrate the first anniversary, his mom made him a scrapbook of photos. But then he picked it up, drove off . . . and left it on top of his CAR. But the good news is, he got it back: A random woman found a bunch of pages scattered across the road, realized they were important, and gathered them up. Then she found his website, and got them back to him. Her mom also went looking later on and found another page. So in the end, only one page was lost.
3. Because of the school bus driver shortage, a 12-year-old in Colorado named Josh Smith didn’t know if he’d have a seat or not. So he convinced his parents to let him kayak to school. They live next to a big reservoir, and his school is on the other side. He says he got there a little late the first day, but his friends thought it was cool when they heard why. Now he wants to SKI across the lake this winter when it’s frozen over. He’s also trying to make Eagle Scout, and plans to enroll in the Air Force Academy.
4. A woman named Betty Soskin is in the news because she’s the oldest National Park Service ranger in the country. She works at the Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park near San Francisco . . . and just celebrated her 100th birthday last Wednesday. She also just had a middle school in the Bay Area named after her.
5. Centerville, Iowa is about 75 miles outside Des Moines, and only around 5,000 people live there. But they just set a world record for the largest serving of pancakes. A hundred volunteers from local businesses cooked 14,280 pancakes and served them to employees. They used 2,400 pounds of batter, and each pancake had to be at least 0.4 inches thick and five inches in diameter. The previous record of 13,000 pancakes just happened in Blue Springs, Missouri this past June. So it only stood for about three months.
6. A couple in New York got married on the Canadian border, so the bride’s family could be there. She’s from Canada, and her 96-year-old grandmother still lives there. Flying her in seemed risky, and nonessential travel by car is still limited. So she and her fiancé exchanged vows on the border while her grandma watched from the other side, less than 10 feet away. Her parents live in Canada too and were also there for it.
7. Firefighters in El Paso rescued a tiny kitten that crawled into a metal pipe and got stuck. They had to cut the pipe with a big saw, and used lubricant to get it out. The kitten wasn’t hurt.
8. An artist in Denver was at Goodwill when he spotted a painting of sunflowers that looked familiar, because HE painted it. He did it in an art class 21 years ago when he was 14. It’s the first painting he ever entered in an art show. Someone paid $150 for it. He says his mom was ANGRY at him back then for selling it. But now she has a chance to buy it back. He paid $20 for it at Goodwill, and plans to auction it off to raise money for breast cancer research.
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