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Marlon Rando
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This Story Resonated with me days after watching on HBO sports with BG. Deffo a feel good story.
Golf illustrations sustained Valentino Dixon while in prison for murder, a charge he was declared innocent of in court on Wednesday after 27 years in jail
With an investigation Golf Digest helped open, an Erie County court vacated a murder charge against Valentino Dixon, for which he had already served 27 years
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Summer
Long Island, NY
Over 900 cars paid for each other’s meals at a Dairy Queen drive-thru in Minnesota | CNN
What started as a random act of kindness from one man paying for the car behind him in a Dairy Queen drive-through resulted in over 900 cars also taking part in the pay it forward chain.
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Now THIS is the American dream –> Powerful thread about once-a-janitor Richard Montañez is what you need to read TODAY
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7) Then, he called the CEO.
“Mr. Enrico’s office. Who is this?”
“Richard Montañez, in California”
“You’re the VP overseeing CA?”
“No, I work at the Rancho Cucamonga plant.”
“Oh, so you’re the VP of Ops?”
“No, I work inside the plant.”
“You’re the manager?”
“No. I’m the janitor.”
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7) Then, he called the CEO.
“Mr. Enrico’s office. Who is this?”
“Richard Montañez, in California”
“You’re the VP overseeing CA?”
“No, I work at the Rancho Cucamonga plant.”
“Oh, so you’re the VP of Ops?”
“No, I work inside the plant.”
“You’re the manager?”
“No. I’m the janitor.”
Gingerlith: A 7-foot-tall gingerbread monolith rises – and falls – in San Francisco
An edible, 7-foot-tall monolith rose on Christmas Day – and fell the next day – in San Francisco's Corona Heights Park, Bay Area public radio station KQED reported, along with several locals who photographed it and posted them on Twitter.
Cat presumed killed in California mudslides found alive 3 years later
A pet cat believed killed along with her owner in a huge mudslide has been found three years later.The Animal Shelter Assistance Program in Santa Barbara County says the calico named Patches was brought in as a stray last month and a microchip scan revealed her identity.
https://wreg.com/news/cat-presumed-killed-in-california-mudslides-found-alive-3-years-later/
A French Nun Turns 117 After Knocking Down Covid-19
Sister André has lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, two world wars and “many sad events,” she once said. As Europe’s oldest known person, she turned 117 on Thursday, and has now accomplished another feat: defeating the coronavirus, with barely any complication.
Surly seal spotted on Charlottetown sidewalk apprehended by police
Lillian Reynolds was about to make coffee Sunday morning when she looked out her Charlottetown kitchen window and saw a seal wiggling down the sidewalk.
This Cutting Onions Make My Eyes Leak
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This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection
Dasia Taylor has juiced about three dozen beets in the last 18 months. The root vegetables, she’s found, provide the perfect dye for her invention: suture thread that changes color, from bright red to dark purple, when a surgical wound becomes infected.
Dasia Taylor has juiced about three dozen beets in the last 18 months. The root vegetables, she’s found, provide the perfect dye for her invention: suture thread that changes color, from bright red to dark purple, when a surgical wound becomes infected.
Summer
Long Island, NY
A boat captain finds message in a bottle after almost a hundred years
Boat captain Jennifer Dowker runs shipwreck tours all summer long, so she knows that there are all sorts of secrets hidden under the surface of Michigan's waterways, but she was still shocked to find a message in a bottle written in 1926.
www.cnn.com
Tucson fetes native daughter Linda Ronstadt on 75th birthday
Retired singer Linda Ronstadt is being feted by her hometown with her very own day.Tucson Mayor Regina Romero earlier this week officially proclaimed Thursday as Linda Ronstadt Day. It was the Grammy award winner’s 75th birthday.
Dolly Parton invested Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ cover royalties in Black community
Parton, who is estimated to have earned millions of dollars in royalties for writing the song in 1973, revealed this week how she spent her money from the songwriting credit for Houston, who died in 2012: She invested in a building located in a historically Black Nashville neighborhood.
Video This pianist was tipped $60,000 by a stranger
Pianist Tonee Carter was just playing his piano. Little did he know a nearby listener was planning to give him the biggest surprise of his life
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