Not All News is Bad!

Nine-year-old Eli stumbled on the prehistoric ammonite while at the beach with his dad.

Source: Fossils: Boy finds 200-million-year-old ammonite on beach

Fun! (Check out the last line, though 🙂 ).

Soothing words from Chris Yates helped guide Taylor Hash, 21, through an emergency landing after he learned she shared the same first name as his daughter.

Source: Veteran pilot jumps in to save young pilot when he saw something go very wrong

Well done, everyone!

Seven Ukrainian refugees delivered water bottles and volunteered with aid workers in tornado-hit Mississippi, not long after resettling in Minneapolis.

Source: After fleeing war, Ukrainians rush to help Mississippi tornado victims

Nice.

A newly launched vertical farming enterprise in Pitt Meadows, B.C., is hoping to ease food security in the province, as it offers locally grown, environmentally sustainable produce.

Source: B.C. vertical farming company says it could produce up to 6 million bags of salad greens a year

Can’t say I’m a huge fan of salad greens, but the technology to make this happen and the problems being solved are pretty cool.

Francis Zuber was skiing the backcountry area of a Washington mountain when he saw something red out of the corner of his eye. When he looked closer, he saw a board wiggling in the air above the snow and realized it belonged to a snowboarder trapped head first in a tree well.

Source: Skier digs buried snowboarder out of 6 feet of snow on Washington mountain, video shows

Wow! (The video’s pretty intense.)

 

This couple fell in love messaging on ‘Nextdoor’—after 40 years of living in the same neighborhood but never meeting.

Source: They Fell in Love on ‘Nextdoor’ After Living in Same Neighborhood for 40 Years But Never Meeting

If you’ve heard of Nextdoor you’ll understand how unusual this is.

“It’s a weird duo, but it works for them,” said Jennifer Federico, director of animal services at the Wake County Animal Center. “Who are we to judge? They obviously love each other.”

Source: A rescue dog and goat are best friends. A shelter put them up for adoption as a pair.

Love is love.

A West Linn family reunited Wednesday with the firefighters and a passerby who helped them safely escape their burning house in February.

Source: Good Samaritan helps save West Linn grandmother from burning house

Well done!

“The camera was such a wreck and looked so far beyond reality, I didn’t think I’d be able to see anything,” said Spencer Greiner.

Source: A fisherman found a decomposing camera. On it were wedding photos from 2010.

I love stories like this.

“Our slogan is ‘No Excellence Without Hard Labor.’ So, they definitely push us.”

Source: New Orleans East teens make ‘impossible’ mathematical discovery unproven for 2,000 years

Impressive.