Not All News is Bad!

After working at a crowded and dangerous internment camp in Iraq, Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather O’Brien brought home with her anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. A bouncy labradoodle and a Kansas City-area program helped her get back on her feet.

Source: ‘I got my life back’: Veterans with PTSD making progress thanks to service dog program

Great program.

Greek runner Ploutarchos Pourliakas completed the 41st edition of the Athens Marathon on Sunday

Source: ‘We all can do it,’ says 88-year-old runner after completing 12th Athens Marathon

I love these stories.

As babies, Rachel Gacioch and Hayden Sackey spent three months in a newborn intensive care unit at the same time in Dearborn, Michigan. Last month, 28 years after they were discharged, they returned to Corewell Health Dearborn Hospital to thank a NICU nurse who helped care for them. They also had some exciting news to share: They’d recently gotten married.

Source: They were preemies in the NICU at the same time. Now they’re married. (Gift link)

What a lovely story.

Middle schooler Tina Jin was looking for a sustainable solution to clean water filtration and saw potential in the honeycomb-like structure of animal bones.

Source: 13-year-old uses animal bones to filter water, takes top prize at national STEM competition

Cool idea!

The world’s first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration.

Source: World’s first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space

Interesting idea.

Over that time, partnerships with 14 different luxury hotels in the Seoul metropolitan area have seen 120,000 used furniture items get donated

Source: 14 Luxury Hotels Are Donating Outdated Furniture to Low-Income Families in Need

A very cool idea.

The fire, which started Thursday afternoon, rapidly burned dozens of acres, prompting evacuations and threatening homes

Source: Strangers joined Talmadge neighbors to help save their homes from Fairmount Fire

Impressive. (I know many will say never run into a fire unless you’re a trained firefighter, but that doesn’t minimize the heroics here.)

Dozens of people in their sixties, seventies, and even eighties are suiting up to play pickleball at the New Century Fieldhouse, in Gardner, Kansas. However, Lois White is 95 and she dominates the courts.

Source: ‘Keep moving’: 95-year-old pickleball player dominates the courts in Gardner, Kansas

Love it.

Morgan Perigo ’65 never expected to see his McMaster graduation ring again after losing it in the ocean off the coast of Barbados in 1977.

Source: Sunken treasure: McMaster grad reunited with ring lost in ocean 47 years ago

Love it.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a way to change leukemia cells into leukemia-killing immune cells. The surprise finding could lead to a powerful new therapy for leukemia and possibly other cancers.

Source: Scientists find way to make leukemia cells kill each other

Wow. That sounds pretty intersting.