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KINDNESS • Woman's World
A 9-year-old's CPR saved his church youth leader.He watched the video for a prize. The next day, someone collapsed.
Logan VanGemert, 9, performed CPR on a fellow church member in Martin, Michigan, one day after watching a training video at school. His elementary school was running the Kids Heart Challenge, which awards prizes for learning about heart disease. Logan's motivation was less clinical. "If I watch all the videos, I'll win a superhero cape," he told his mom. The next day at church, longtime youth leader Tom Adriance slumped from his seat and landed face down as the children prepared to sing. His wife of 45 years, Beth, has CPR training but froze at the thought of performing it on her husband. Logan dropped to the floor and pushed on Tom's chest until adults arrived with a defibrillator. Doctors later said Tom had suffered total cardiac arrest. He survived bypass surgery with no neurological damage. Logan got his hero awards, and eventually the cape, which he wore to a Heart Association meeting. Read the full story → | |||
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MOTIVATIONAL • Good News Network
He trained in secret to run beside herShe kept asking him to run. He kept saying no.
Jason Burns spent two months training in secret so he could run his girlfriend's first half marathon beside her without her knowing. Emma Kessler, 22, had been anxious for weeks about the Rockin' Riverfest Half Marathon in St. Charles, Missouri, and kept asking Burns to join. He kept saying no. He was a competitive powerlifter, and Kessler had never missed one of his events. "I didn't really think it's fair if I sit on the side of the course and only see her for 30 seconds during her two-hour race," he told USA Today. So he registered quietly and slipped his running shoes into the trunk on race morning. He also printed an old text from Kessler that read, "I wish you'd run half marathons w/ me." When she saw the shoes, she cried. "No, you're lying, are you really doing it?" she asked. They finished together in 2 hours and 29 minutes, both wearing medals. "Way better now that we're done," Kessler said.
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DELIGHT • Nice News
A classified ad in 1979 built a 46-year friendshipJoel Greenia found his cross-country biking partner the way you did things in 1979. He placed a classified ad. Another young man from upstate New York, Ray Halbert, answered it, and that summer the two flew from Buffalo to California and rode 3,485 miles from Santa Cruz to Hartford, Connecticut, over 57 days. They slept on park benches. Police once pulled them over. Somewhere along the way Greenia decided to propose to the woman he has now been married to for 46 years. Then they got home, took jobs, and lost touch for more than four decades. Last year Halbert planned a California trip, tracked Greenia down online, and mailed him a handwritten card. This July, at ages that make classified ads feel far away, they rode again, from Detroit through Ontario to the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, where they first met. Their wives dropped them off at the start. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
He paged Delta himself, and 81,000 people cheered.The desk was empty. The intercom was not.
A traveler at Los Angeles International Airport found the Delta Air Lines desk at gate 30B empty last month, needed help with his flight, and noticed the intercom sitting right there. So he used it. "Hi Delta associates that aren't paying attention, please come to 30B," he announced. "You have a customer waiting. Thank you." When nobody arrived, he switched into a passable flight attendant cadence: "Delta, Delta, Delta. Please come to 30B." An automated baggage message cut in, and he negotiated with it. The empty desk was not random bad luck. Delta canceled more than 400 flights that weekend, citing crew restrictions, and gates across the system went unstaffed. A fellow passenger filmed the whole thing, and the internet handled the rest. "Who is he? Upgrade him," one commenter wrote. Another noticed something 81,000 people agreed with: it was the clearest that mic had ever sounded. No one got hurt. No one got arrested. A pilot eventually wandered over, spoke briefly, and walked away. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
A Cleveland DJ flipped the record. Tequila hit number one.Nobody stuck around to hear it. Then a DJ flipped the record.
The Champs' 1958 hit "Tequila" began as a throwaway. Saxophonist Danny Flores, who later went by Chuck Rio, was working as a studio musician on another instrumental called "Train to Nowhere" when the single needed a B-side. With a little recording time left, Flores started playing a ditty he liked to use on breaks during club dates. The other players joined in. Someone suggested he shout "Tequila," a nod to his affinity for the drink. They finished in three takes and left without listening back. A Cleveland DJ flipped the record and played the B-side instead. "Tequila" hit the top of the charts in three weeks and won a Grammy in 1959. Flores kept playing it for 40 years. "I can honestly tell you he never got tired of playing that song," said his wife of 33 years, Sharee. The band, by the way, was named after Gene Autry's horse. Read the full story → | |||
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