The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. This first
story is not a commercial. I just saw it and thought it was cool,
and it's good news. If you like state fairs. Windham Hotels are
offering a gig to become the American Inn state Fair Family. They're searching for
one adventurous family to travel across the Midwest in search of the best things each
state fair has to offer. Best of all, the job comes with a
fifteen thousand dollars to help with travel from Iowa, Illinois. The winning state
Fair family will have the enviable task of visiting three iconic state fairs over the
course of a week and sharing your pro tips and tricks via social media.
In exchange for your hard work of sampling powdered, sugar covered confections and adrenaline
inducing rides, you'll be given seven paid nights at American Inn Hotels, a
ten thousand dollars travel stipend, and five thousand dollars cash. All right,
Johnny Mack, what do you got to do? Well? Before July twenty
five, submit a written or video application over email where by visiting americ in
so americi nn dot com, slash fair family. You have to demonstrate an
under one minute or three hundred words what makes your family the ideal candidate for
the role. That's fun. By the way, if you like travel,
I host a pretty casual travel podcast. It's called Travel Is Back. And
what I do is I do travel a lot. When I go somewhere,
I take up my portable recorder and I tell you where I am. So
Season three kicked off with Key West and I'm about to do some episodes about
ann Arbor, Michigan. Travel Is Back is the name of that podcast.
A man in Kentucky recently found a buried cash of gold coins from the Civil
War period. They might be worth millions of dollars. The coins consists of
nearly seven hundred one dollars, ten dollars and twenty dollar gold dollars issued by
the US Mint between eighteen forty and eighteen sixty three. It's being called the
Great's Kentucky Ward. Archaeologist Ryan McNutt said many wealthy Kentuckians rumored to have buried
large quantities of gold and silver in advance of the Civil War. He said,
given the time period in the location in Kentucky, which was usual at
the time, It's entirely possible this was buried in advance of Confederate John Hunt
Morgan's June July eighteen sixty three raid. Apparently, one of the rarest items
is the eighteen sixty three dash P twenty dollar one ounce gold liberty coin that
can go for six figures at an auction. There were eighteen in the ward.
Good news for Mutu the leopard, A twenty five year old man was
driving his motorbike. He found the juvenile leopard lying unconscious in the corner of
his field. He observed the leopard for a bit and concluded it wasn't well
and summed up his courage. He decided to intervene face to face with the
leopard. He realized it was too exhausted to move, so he brought it
back to the village on his motorbike. His neighbors called the four Service and
they got Mutu to veterinary care. Local officials said the leopard is about nine
months old, must have straightened into the village seeking food, which led to
dehydration. Our staff members have given him advice and what needs to be done
about noticing wild creatures in the area. A massive municipal park, over twenty
years in the making, is finally underway in the city of Irvine. The
Great Park of Irvine is expected to dwarf Central Park by more than five hundred
acres. It'll take another ten years to complete, and the park will span
thirteen hundred acres and include several museums and amphitheater at Veterans Memorial Gordon and Aquatic
Center of Sports complex and not one but two lakes. Where'd all this land
come from? It was a military base, so the first thing they have
to do is demolish in clear away seventy seven old military buildings. But they're
leaving the Eltoro Air Traffic Control tower that'll be leased by the FAA. A
portion of the Irvine Great Park is already open. You'll find a soccer pitch
and some other amenities, including the tethered balloon to take visitors up into the
sky. I am Patty Callahan, Henry, I am Mary kay Andrews,
I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends at Fiction is led
by four longtime friends, the four of us, with more than seventy five
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streaming platform. A ninety five year old veteran became the first person to dance
at a newly reopened nightclub seventy four years after meeting his wife there. Kevin
Topham to the dance floor with his caregiver when Club X reopened after more than
a decade. He met his wife, Molly, back in the nineteen forties
when it was known as the Corn Exchange and it was a hot spot for
serviceman. Kevin noticed in the newspaper that the venue was being reopened, and
he asked his part time caregiver, Donna, if she would take him dancing.
He was warned there's gonna be booming music and strobe lights and eighteen year
olds and eating care. But Donna had a better plan. She asked the
club owner if they could come in early. The club owner said, sure,
you could pick the music. Kevin was the first person to dance at
the reopened club. His song Shat a Newgacucho by the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
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