The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Congratulations to
Dorothy Fidelli. She's seventy seven. She got married to herself. Yeah.
Dottie lives at the O'Bannon Terrace retirement community in Ohio, and said, you
know what, I've done everything else, why not, I'm gonna marry myself.
Rob is the property manager of the retirement home. He performed the ceremony,
and Dotty said, I came in here and I told Rob. He
said, Rob, you're gonna marry me? And he said, You're what.
Rob performed the ceremony in front of Fideli's friends and family. Rob told
Today dot Com she's an incredible woman. She's full of life. She's always
thought of others. Dottie's daughter, Donna, thought it was fun and said,
oh mom, yeah, let's go do it. I'll go get your
dress, I'll get you everything. Her daughter did all the cooking and decorated
the community room of the retirement home with a balloon arch and other special touches.
There was a two tiered white cake decorated with red roses, as well
as heart shaped cookies and finger sandwiches in the shape of wedding bells. Dottie
said, I was nervis then I was really happy. Dotty was married once
before. She and her ex husband exchanged vows at the Justice of the Peace
back in nineteen sixty five, and right after the ceremony he went to work
and Dottie went home. She added, I wore a black dress, so
it was doomed before it started. Congratulations Dotty. Good news if you're a
migrating bird, Missouris made it a little safer for you. They've been turning
off the lights on the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis at night. Jeremy's Sweat
is the superintendent of Gateway Arch National Park and said Saint Louis sits right beneath
the Mississippi Flyway, a major migration highway, so they kept the lights off
in May. They'll do it again, and it's September. This helps minimize
the possible disorientating effect of the lights on migrating birds. Good news for Charles
Jessup. He was reunited with his work portfolio and five thousand dollars in cash
thanks to a group of high school students who were in the right place at
the right time somewhere on Highway twenty between each Troy and Waterford. Jessup drove
off in his pickup truck and has lost his open portfolio containing several important items,
including five thousand in cash. He lost his MacBook, his business records.
He retraced his steps. He only found his laptop, but he also
spotted Waterford Union High School's Future Farmers of America students doing their spring roadside cleanup.
He asked the students if they had tracked down any of the items,
and sophomore Morgan said, all right, we're probably not going to find it,
and all of a sudden, I was like, wait, there's a
fifty dollars bill right here. We found money after money after money, and
then we found his portfolio. Then we found a bunch of papers with the
portfolio. Was actually pretty crazy on much we found in the ditch, Jesseph
said, and went from having its terrible day, you know, beating myself
up for why would it be so stupid to leave that on the back of
my truck, to Wow, what a great kids. I am Patty Callahan,
Henry, I am Mary kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm
Kristy Woodson. Harvey. Friends in Fiction is led by four longtime friends,
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Through end depth conversations and interviews, we discussed the books we've written, the
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can listen to Friends and Fiction on any major streaming platform. Eighth grader Xavier
Jones needed a ride to his graduation from middle school. Couldn't get one,
so he asked his friend and brother to walk along with him. He said,
if I want it, I gotta go get it. They walked two
and a half hours through Saint Louis Or at the school. When the fourteen
year old arrived, Mentor Darren Seals was speaking at the ceremony. Hearing that
one of his students had walked two hours to be there, he paused,
informed the audience. Seals said, I had to stop my speech and call
him on board and was like, hey, everybody, get off your feet
and give him a standing obation. They clap from They were like, whoa
he walked here? Now as it happened. The presidents of Harris Stowe State
University was in attendance that day and was moved by the perseverance and determination shown
by young mister Jones. She offered to give him a ride to college.
The boy didn't understand what a ride meant. Mister Seals tells the story.
She said, you got a full ride. You know what that means.
And he said, they're gonna give me a ride to school. No,
you're getting a ride to college. You said, wait a minute, I
don't have to pay for college. Then it all started hitting him, and
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