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A Riverton woman’s TikTok video highlighting a Navy veteran and airport worker struggling to walk inspired nearly 6,000 people to donate more than $180,000, helping support his retirement and his mother’s hospice care.
Source: Utah woman’s viral video helps raise more than $174K for Navy veteran she spotted at airport
Nice.
Three men in Oman stepped in to help an endangered sea turtle when crashing tides risked its safety.
Very cool…
Dave Whitlow, 73, has volunteered as a NICU cuddler at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU for eight years, holding up to 8 babies per visit.
Source: This 73-year-old is not a doctor or a nurse — but he shows up every week for the tiniest fighters
Nice.
Evan Newton is now one of the youngest newspaper owners in the country.
Source: 25-year-old reporter buys his hometown newspaper to save it from corporate ownership
Very cool. I wish him well.
Gnawing our way to a wildfire solution.
Source: A Spanish park has been free of wildfires for over a decade thanks to 18 donkeys
“Firefighting Donkey Battalion” reminds me of what some are doing with goats in other parts of the world. Well done.
Three children were rescued at Alvarado Park Lake on Fourth of July when the boat they were on with several adults overturned, Alvarado firefighters said.
Source: Off-duty North Texas firefighter saves 3 children trapped under boat on Fourth of July
VERY well done.
Roman Butzlaff brought together a group of neighbors who say they would have barely known each other if not for a little boy, who lived in a neighborhood but needed a village.
Source: A 4-year-old boy’s simple habit of waving to his neighbors transformed his North Carolina community
Neat.
See how a California teen graduated from high school while also earning degrees from two colleges.
Source: Most teens graduate with one diploma. She earned three.
Very well done.
A research team in Colorado has developed a suite of new therapies that prompt aging or damaged joints to repair themselves within weeks, according to animal studies. The new osteo-arthritis treatments include a single, regenerative injection to a joint and a biomaterial repair kit that recruits the body’s own cells to patch holes in damaged […]
Yes, please.
Our understanding of the human brain is experiencing a watershed moment.
Source: In a First, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Linked to The Brain’s Clearing System
Fascinating.