Good News Stories

An escaped emu caused quite a stir in an Essex village on Tuesday, after it had escaped from its home. The startled residents of Tollesbury were shocked to see the bird running loose, as they prepared for a day in the snow.

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“It was just madness,” said Miss Jasmine Emson. “The emu is well known in Tollesbury, it’s called Farage and lives next to the Church. We were all preparing to go out in the snow, and suddenly I saw it run past me - we were all a bit shocked it had got out. It left a trail of feathers all around the churchyard !"

It is not clear yet how Farage escaped, but after being chased through the graveyard it was reportedly put in a headlock and taken safely back to its home.

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http://www.essexlive.news/news/flabbergasted-resident-describes-moment-man-906348​

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Happy Birthday, Winnie !

Today, Winnie the wombat is celebrating her 31st Birthday - and she is the oldest of any Australian of her kind.

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To celebrate the occasion, her keepers at the National Zoo and Aquarium in Australia made for her, two special fruit and vegetable cakes.

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https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news...Wombat-Celebrates-Her-31st-Birthday-With-Cake​

And many happy returns.

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I once had a water bill for 10,000 dollars. After three days of arguing over the phone, the company sent someone to re-read the meter. I was told it was computer error. They actually owed me money!

 

Our power companies tried guessing the meters ,never read them and demanded money, I told them they get nothing until our meter is read
properly and then they will get paid, it worked, apparently other did the same thing. Fuck them.

 

An Emu when angry can just about disembowel someone, having very big and nasty claws. I would try and run the other way.

 

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Last Saturday, an eye doctor in Grand Rapids, Michigan, went above and beyond the call of duty to provide care for an elderly patient.

"My mom was in the hospital the last three days and had to miss her crucial, every-four-weeks eye injections to treat wet macular degeneration," Marie Havenga said. "If she goes longer than four weeks, her eyes can bleed and she can permanently lose her vision."

Enter Dr. Yosef Gindzin of Grand Rapids Ophthalmology - who not only opened his office up on a Saturday, he even carried her in through the un-plowed snow in the parking lot.

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"To preserve her right eye, Dr. Yosef Gindzin of Grand Rapids Opthamology opened his office on a Saturday, just so he could give my mom her injections. Because the parking lot isn't plowed on weekends, we couldn't get her wheelchair through the snow. Dr. Gindzin carried her. What an amazing and compassionate man. Because of him, my mom will be able to see the magic of Christmas."

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/2550/Doctor-Opens-Office-And-Carries-Elderly-Patient-Through-Snow-Filled-Parking-Lot ​

 

And at her stage of life, there is nothing nicer than actually seeing your family around you at Christmas.

 

And a Cassowary can be even more dangerous. See, it isn't only the snakes and spiders and crocks and other marine life in Aussie that are dangerous...LOL

 

A Christmas miracle ...

It was a holiday miracle five months in the making for Ashley Power, as a Canada-wide non-profit reunited the Spruce Grove resident with her beloved service dog after five months of separation.

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Ashley moved to Spruce Grove, Alberta 14 years ago from Newfoundland, and she adopted Frankie (an American Staffordshire terrier) in October 2016 from a friend. The service dog helps her cope with post-traumatic stress disorder

But that all changed in July 2017, when Frankie escaped the care of a dog-sitter and disappeared. And it would take a nearly 1,100-km journey before the two would be reunited.

http://canoe.com/news/local-news/christmas-miracle-as-long-lost-service-dog-returns-to-spruce-grove-from-1100-km-away/wcm/0966a414-2961-41ef-85e1-49bd07bac652​

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It must be nice to be that financially well off to be able to do that?? Although I shall not take away from them the generosity of doing this for those less fortunate than themselves. It is a nice story.

 

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'The Coromandel' in New Zealand is renowned for its natural beauty, misty rainforests and pristine golden beaches. But a Coromandel-wide liquor ban was in place over the New Year period, which meant that no alcohol was allowed in public places, including beaches.

So, an enterprising group of Kiwis got busy at low tide on Sunday, and built an island in the 'international waters' of the Tairua estuary :

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They outfitted it with a picnic table and coolers full of beer, and then when the tide came in, they began to celebrate. The group was seen drinking into the night, watching the New Year fireworks from the relative safety of their man-made island.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100275008/new-years-revellers-build-sandcastle-in-coromandel-estuary-to-avoid-liquor-ban

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After 6 years in the U.S. Army, a deployment to Iraq and another deployment to Afghanistan, my 24-year old nephew is leaving the Army and starting college. Hooray. "I am SO fortunate, Aunt Janet. I had SO many close-calls. Closest was when my HumVee ran over a huge buried IED and it failed to detonate."

 

This story happened back on June 17, 2014.

And its message is about the power of a simple act of kindness - inspirational instants as captured in this image ...

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It is true that we sometimes cannot foresee the goodness which can come from our actions. And you can read the complete story behind this one small act of kindness here :

http://aplus.com/a/dying-fox-on-the-street​

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Jan 10, 2018 ...

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Happy 70th Birthday to Donald Fagen, who along with Walter Becker founded the rock/jazz group 'Steely Dan'.

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http://classicrockvids.com/happy-birthday-to-steely-dans-donald-fagen/​

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Hundreds welcome 3rd-grader back to school after fight with cancer

Bridget Kelley was just hoping for a return to normalcy on her first day back in elementary school after a 15-month absence for cancer treatments and a stem cell transplant.

Her classmates and their parents made sure the third-grader's return on Jan. 2 was anything but normal, thanks to a special greeting the Kelley family will never forget.

https://www.today.com/health/hundreds-welcome-3rd-grader-back-school-after-fight-cancer-t121014

No picture posted. I don't want to post any pictures of children on an incest site.