China Posted February 21, 2021 Author Share Posted February 21, 2021 Strangers took in a delivery driver for 5 days after she was stranded in the Texas storm When a delivery driver's car began sliding down on an icy Texas driveway, the driver closed her eyes, praying she wouldn't hit the client's home. She didn't hit the house but Chelsea Timmons' car crushed a flowerbed outside an Austin, Texas, home as a snowstorm paralyzed the state last Sunday. She didn't know it yet, but she would soon be grateful to end up in this particular driveway. Homeowners Doug Condon and Nina Richardson checked on Timmons to try to help get her Toyota Rav4 up the driveway, but it was stuck. They invited her to wait for a tow truck inside their home. "I'm just extremely fortunate that this is where my car crashed," Timmons told CNN. "It was in their flower bed. It wasn't in a ditch. It wasn't on the side of the road ... I was stuck someplace safe and warm." The bad weather persisted a lot longer than any of them thought. Five days later, Timmons was still living with the couple. Every time Timmons suggested leaving to get a hotel room somewhere, the couple worried about what situation she would find herself in. "'Our guest bedroom is better than the Hampton Inn,'" Timmons said the couple told her. "'If you leave, what are you going to eat? Are you sure you can make it there all the way?'" In the meantime, Timmons learned that back at her apartment in Houston, the power had gone out. If she had in fact made it home, it would have simply been to live there without power. As the days went on, the group became chummy and it was just like Timmons was a guest staying in the couple's spare bedroom. The couple's dogs, Crosby and Haddie, soon began sitting on Timmons' bed and snuggling up to her. Click on the link for the full article 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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skinsmarydu Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 ^^^ Little girl is like, "just give me a minute to adjust"...sign of the future. They both embraced it well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Larry Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 And the sons of Pullman porters, and the sons of engineers, ride their father's magic carpets, made of steel. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 I'm not sure that first one is uplifting as much as it is heartbreaking. The daughter puts on a happy face, but it must be gut wrenching (to say the least) to have your own mother not recognize you as her daughter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 16 minutes ago, China said: I'm not sure that first one is uplifting as much as it is heartbreaking. The daughter puts on a happy face, but it must be gut wrenching (to say the least) to have your own mother not recognize you as her daughter. I took care of my mom for the last 2 years of her life when she was dealing with dementia...those breakthrough moments were incredibly uplifting and helped me keep my perspective. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 10 hours ago, Califan007 said: I took care of my mom for the last 2 years of her life when she was dealing with dementia...those breakthrough moments were incredibly uplifting and helped me keep my perspective. Yes. I remember the last time my dad knew really knew who I was...we were watching a Braves/Nats game...it was the most perfect timing. I keep that memory sacred, and it helps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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skinsmarydu Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Fabulous. https://news.yahoo.com/waffle-house-employees-band-together-134241392.html 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 6, 2021 Author Share Posted June 6, 2021 Diver reunites woman with camera lost in lake for nearly 10 years A technical rescue diver in Virginia found a camera at the bottom of a Virginia lake and was able to reunite it with the woman who lost it nearly a decade earlier. Lilly Potts was participating in a rescue training exercise with the Blacksburg Volunteer Rescue Squad when she found the algae-covered camera at the bottom of Claytor Lake. "I happen to pass over a camera, and I decided to pick it up and open it up and the SD card was still in it," Potts told WDBJ-TV. Potts enlisted the help of a friend who was able to recover about 300 photos from the card. "There was so much sentimental value to all the pictures, like there was a wedding on it, two weddings on it, a baby being born, and I know if I lost those kind of pictures I would want them back," Potts said. Potts posted photos from the SD card to Facebook in the hopes of finding the owner, and one of Potts' former teachers was able to identify the camera's owner as Brenda Dalton, who works for the teacher's husband. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 Texas bakery sells out of inventory after facing Pride backlash Confections in Lufkin, Texas announced on Thursday that it would be selling rainbow cookies for Pride Month. The bakery, located in East Texas, soon faced backlash for its decision. Confections took to Facebook to reveal that many of its customers had sent hateful messages and canceled orders and claimed its "likes" were also plummeting. "Today has been hard. Really hard," a Facebook post from June 3 read. "We lost a significant amount of followers because of a rainbow heart cookie we posted. We received a very hateful message on our business page canceling a large order (5dz) of summer themed cookies for tomorrow morning (that we just finished decorating) because of a rainbow heart cookie we posted." According to Tyler, Texas, CBS affiliate KYTX, by Friday, Confections was inundated with messages of support from across the U.S., including from Mark Cuban's brother, Brian, who reached out to buy cookies to be donated to LGBTQ charities and other nonprofits. "When things slow down a bit, let us know if shipping is possible. I'd like to support you," Cuban said, according KYTX. "If shipping isn't possible, I'll buy some by phone/email and you can donate my cookies to a local LGBTQ org or children's charity." Photos posted to social media showed people flooded Confections' brick and mortar location. By the end of the day, Confections posted that it had sold out of its entire inventory. Click on the link for the full article 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabbyrwock Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Clever...dolphins use this trick to catch fish. Using it to catch plastic is really cool. A 'Bubble Barrier' is trapping plastic waste before it can get into the sea https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/08/europe/bubble-barrier-sea-c2e-spc-intl/index.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 9, 2021 Author Share Posted June 9, 2021 Fitchburg graduate Verda Tetteh asks school to give $40,000 scholarship to someone else A Harvard-bound graduate surprised her faculty and classmates by returning a generous scholarship and asking that it be given to someone else instead. Verda Tetteh made the selfless announcement during the Fitchburg High School graduation on Friday night. It was actually the third time she stood on the graduation stage. The first was when Tetteh, the class speaker, gave an emotional speech to her classmates. Afterward, she returned to her seat on Crocker Field but was called back to the stage by Assistant principal Thomas DiGeronimo, who presented her and a classmate with this year's General Excellence Awards. The honor, which has been presented to graduating seniors from Fitchburg High School since 1914, comes with a scholarship worth $40,000 over four years. After posing for a photo, Tetteh again returned to her seat and DiGeronimo went on to deliver a commencement speech. When DiGeronimo finished, Tetteh returned to the stage once more with her surprising decision. "I am so very grateful for this, but I also know that I am not the one who needs this the most," said Tetteh. "And, knowing my mom went to community college and knowing how much that was helpful, I would be so very grateful if administration would consider giving the General Excellence scholarship to someone who is going to community college because I know it is such a great honor, but I also know I am not the most in need of it." Click on the link for the full article and video 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 From 12-year-old meth addict to honors college scholar: The redemption of Ginny Burton Her name is Ginny Burton. This is Ginny's story. She is my Hero. She was born in Tacoma in 1972. She was one of seven children born to a mother who was a drug addict and a drug dealer who suffered from mental illness. Her father was sent to prison when she was four for a string of armed robberies. Her mother introduced her to marijuana at the age of six. She got her using meth at age 12. By 14 she was smoking crack. At 16 she was raped by a man who bought drugs from her mother. By 17 she'd attempted suicide for the first of many times. She got pregnant and the baby’s father was shot and killed. She eventually had two children and married into an abusive relationship. At 21 she started shooting heroin. By 23 she was a full-on, hardcore heroin addict. Ginny Burton, a little girl surrounded by squalor, addiction, and violence, had become a grown woman surrounded by squalor, addiction, and violence. She never had a chance. Ginny and a guy named Jack used to feed their addiction by robbing Mexican drug dealers at gunpoint. They knew that they wouldn't go to the cops because they were undocumented. She was hell on wheels. She said to me once: Quote I am that person. I have 17 felony convictions. I am the person you used to clutch your bag when I walked by you. I am the person that would randomly attack somebody in public. I was not a savory person. Everybody was a victim, and everybody was prey. Three times she went to state prison. And she says that each time she got clean and had time to think and contemplate what she wanted to change about her life. And so it went, on and on. Her last trip to prison was in 2008. She was in for 33 months, and she stayed clean for six months after she got out. But she relapsed for the umpteenth time and was arrested one last time on Dec. 5, 2012, and she says it saved her life. Ginny never looked back. She did social service work for the Post Prison Education Program, and at Lazarus for seven years. And she watched and learned. She told me something that nobody wants to hear. She said that in those seven years, working with hundreds of addicts, she knew of exactly two people who were able to voluntarily get clean and who stayed that way. Two. And she started going to school. She applied to the University of Washington and was accepted. In 2019 she was awarded a Martin Honor Scholarship to the UW and there before her the path opened up. She made the all-academic team at the university. She was the 2020 Truman Scholar for the state of Washington. And she posted to Facebook two stunning before and after photos. One was taken in a red King County jumpsuit in 2005. Her head was shaved and there were sores from picking at her face during her addiction. She'd been using a quarter ounce of heroin per day when the picture was taken. She looked sad and strung out and infinitely tired. In the other picture, taken that day with the cap and gown, she looked happy and beautiful and proud and full of bright, endless possibilities. Click on the link for the full story 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted July 16, 2021 Author Share Posted July 16, 2021 Film inspired by Irish village plagued with "raging erections" gets uplifting news Four years ago, reports spread internationally about the village of Ringaskiddy, County Cork, whose residents complained that the fumes from the nearby Viagra plant were causing the men and dogs in town to have raging erections. At the time, a spokesperson for the pharmaceutical company denied these statements and stated that the claims were an "amusing" delusion. The story, however, inspired a play and film called Love in Kilnerry, written and produced by Daniel Keith, which has now landed a North American distribution deal with Mutiny Pictures. Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Califan007 The Constipated Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Group of hero Gisborne grannies fight off bingo thieves: 'Don't mess with us' https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/group-of-hero-gisborne-grannies-fight-off-bingo-thieves-dont-mess-with-us/FJPGCWOTLZ6CCTSZ6QXOMJXG2I/ A group of Gisborne "hero nannies" sprang into action, wielding chairs, handbags and kicking over tables, to fight off two wannabe thieves who tried to rob them of $700 during their bingo night. About 30 women - the oldest of whom was 87 - were playing Housie just after 8pm on Friday at the Gisborne Pirates Rugby Club when two thieves in balaclavas and draped in black burst into their game. The Herald spoke to the 67-year-old "hero nanny" who inspired the defence of her and her friends' $700 prize pouch, after she flipped over her table in front of one fleeing thief. "We were sitting there playing Housie - if you look at Pirates clubrooms they've got a side door and they had to go past the table I'm sitting at to go to where the money is," the 67-year-old said. "I'm playing and I'm thinking who's this idiot running past me and I thought 'oh hey he's grabbing the money'. "The lady running the Housie, she's trying to fight him to get the money back and he turned around to run back to the door and I thought to myself 'bugger this'. "That's when I bloody shoved the table I was sitting at right in front of him and he flipped over. "He fell down on the ground. A couple of the nannies on the other side were hitting him with their bags. It wasn't until he ran off and the pouch of money was still there." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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