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KINDNESS • Sunny Skyz
Strangers raised $184,000 for the airport worker in painShe watched him work through the pain. Then she hit record.
LaCinda Thackeray was waiting for a flight home to Utah at John Wayne Airport in Southern California on May 21 when she noticed a man on the tarmac. He was fueling aircraft and positioning airplane stairs, and every step looked painful. She recorded a short TikTok asking if anyone knew who he was. "I thought, if somebody knew who he was, could we get him retired?" she said. Within hours the video passed a million views. Internet sleuths identified him as James Blair, 64, a Navy veteran who has worked at the airport since 2006. Blair has serious knee problems and needs surgery, but most of his income goes toward his mother, who is in hospice. "My plan was to work until I can't work," he said. Thackeray started a GoFundMe. Nearly 6,000 donors gave more than $184,000. Blair has used part of it to buy himself a new bed.
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
A hidden $12,000 reached the sick man who lost itThe first number was dead. Then, live on air, he remembered a second.
Sak Yiengjuntuek found $12,000 in cash inside an old tool chest left behind by the man who sold him the restaurant that became Lemongrass Pho & Thai Cuisine in Myrtle Beach. He was clearing out what he considered junk when he spotted an ordinary sunglasses case and opened it. "I was so shocked," he told TODAY. "I knew right then that it belonged to the previous owner." The number he had on file was disconnected, so Yiengjuntuek contacted local NBC affiliate WMBF, hoping the man might see his story on air. He was live on camera when he remembered a second number saved under a different name. He called it right then, in front of the cameras. When the man picked up, Yiengjuntuek told him, "I have some good news for you." The owner, it turned out, was dealing with a serious health problem. The money reached him anyway.
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
A teacher sewed 22 hats, one for each drawingThe kids just colored a worksheet. She had other plans.
Ashley Lowry, a first grade teacher at Wallace Elementary in Kelso, Washington, spent her winter break sewing 22 hats, one for each student, based on the designs they had colored in class. The project came from her aunt, Amy LaFave, who suggested it as a midwinter idea. Lowry photocopied blank winter-hat outlines and let the kids fill them in, some with solid blue or purple, others with careful repeating stripes. "I guess I didn't realize 22 hats was going to take as long as it did, but we managed," Lowry said. On the day of the reveal, she sent the children to recess, tucked a wrapped hat into each desk, then read them the book Extra Yarn. "Let's say magic magic! Drumroll!" she told them, and 22 kids drummed on their desks before opening their drawers. One girl got the unicorn hat she drew. "Because those are my favorite colors in the world," another explained.
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SCIENCE • Optimist Daily
Paris is cooling 3,000 buildings with river waterMillions of AC units make hot days worse. Paris found another way.
Paris is planning to triple a cooling network that uses river water instead of air conditioning, aiming to reach more than 3,000 buildings by 2042. Fra
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
Nobody wanted the dog who steals. This family did.Every home gave him back. This one lets him keep the teapot.
Duke, an elderly golden retriever, had been returned to a rescue so many times he was nearly labeled unadoptable. His crime was not aggression. He steals things. Household objects, specifically, which he carries to his dog bed and guards. "He has stolen a lamp, framed poster art, a cooler. He took a teapot," his owner, Cathy Hoyt, told GeoBeats. Also her Kindle, phone and, on camera, her husband's pants. He doesn't eat them or bury them. He collects them. Hoyt says Duke's early home fell apart after his owners split, and the one who kept him died soon after. Professionals told her the behavior is hard to reverse at his age, so the family stopped trying. They wait until he's ready to give an item back. "He just takes such comfort in them," Hoyt said. The teapot is safe with him now, and so is he.
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