A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
A Canadian grandmother is still feeling the burn and loving it at the age of 73.
Source: Canadian grandmother, 73, helps fight fires as a volunteer at local fire station
Keep it up!
Cow heart-valve recipient Mark Buciak is out to become the first Illinois competitor to finish 40 straight Boston Marathons.
Darned impressive.
In Myanmar, a major project is under way: restore coastal mangrove forests—with a little air support.
Source: Biocarbon Engineering’s tree-planting drones are flying in Myanmar
“Seed missles” … cool!
An Idaho community is rallying around the boys after they helped out a local elderly man after he injured himself.
Source: Teen boys pick up elderly man from sidewalk, clean wounds
Best quote: “It’s just the right thing to do.”
A Florida community has come together to give a young woman and the five siblings she is raising something they needed — their own car.
Source: 20-year-old raising 5 siblings gifted new car from strangers
Elevating the definition of “community”, for sure.
Lexi Ann was on the brink of death after a “horrible” house fire in January.
Source: Dog severely burned in house fire adopted… by firefighter – Bring Me The News
Touching story, and so appropriate.
“I saw the bag and read the note. I was choked up.”
Source: Mailman Fulfills The Final Wish Of A Dog On His Route Who Passed Away – The Dodo
Very touching.
A school full of kids on a Friday night is all part of one man’s mission to keep students at a Newark high school off the streets and out of trouble.
Turns out I’ve featured the man behind this before. Well done!
An innovation by a Vietnamese man named Tran Minh Tien has shown how a certain type of grass named Lepironia articulata that is prolific around the Mekong Delta in Vietnam is converted into drinking straws.
These straws do not contain any chemicals and preservatives. And most importantly, they are biodegradable.
Source: Vietnamese Man Makes Biodegradable Straws From Wild Grass to Solve World’s Plastic Problem
The concept just makes so much sense.
Dean Nicholson rescued Nala from the roadside and they haven’t been apart since
Very cute. 🙂