I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. We'll bend in a little bit.
This first stories good news, bad news, good news. In the
end, Scott Stallings got a package for Christmas and included an invitation to play
in the Masters. Wow, that's pretty cool. Yeah, the Masters said,
hey, come play, you'll be a guest of the PGA Tour.
Turns out wrong, Scott Stallings. There's a professional golfer, Scott Stallings,
who qualified for the Masters by reaching the tour championship that Scott Stallings didn't know
what happened until the first. Scott Stallings sent up a series of messages on
Instagram alerting him to the mail mix up. On Instagram, non golfer Scott
Stallings, it wrote, high Scotts, my name is Scott Stallings as well.
I'm from Georgia. My wife's name is Jennifer. Two. Received FedEx
today from the Masters inviting me to play in the Masters Tournament April six through
nine, twenty twenty three. I'm one hundred percent sure this is not for
me. Well, good news. Golfer Scott Stallings says, we're playing in
to give non golfer Scotts some practice round tickets and take him to it on
Monday night for doing the right thing. That's a lot of fun. I
like this guy, Pepe or Tis. He is a kindred spirit of mind.
So what he's doing in Seville, Spain, anytime he sees an abandoned
plant, he's trying to save it. I do this. I'll see the
neighbors. They there are some plants. I actually call myself the plant Whisperer.
I would take the sickest plant you've ever seen and nurse it back to
health. I'm not always successful, but I just feel bad for these things
because they're living things. It's just like, hey, I'll throw it out
and I'll tell you the story to second. At the first sign of a
clutch of abandoned green shoots or forsaken flowers, Pepe and his team spring into
action. They snap photos and upload them to social Mediaport says, one could
say we're a team of rescuers. The goal is to save plants. Their
group now has twenty four hundred members. They've stumbled across orchid speaking out of
a rubbish band or towering plants dumped into dumpsters. They post them with the
exact location to allow them to be picked up by anybody willing to give them
a new home. Others use the group to offer plants they can no longer
care for, maybe they have space constraints or an imminent move, where t
says it's a reclamation of the plant as a living being. People need to
realize these aren't just objects to be used and discarded. They deserve respect,
care, and a measure of dignity. Following the holiday season, he's worried
about fir trees, pines, and points set as. He says, many
of them are sold at cheap prices and people buy them as temporary decorations without
knowing how to take care of them, or businesses by them because they look
nice in the restaurant and the store, and toss them when the holidays are
over. A Nashville school has created a marketplace to combat absenteeism. Administrators at
Nashville's Warner Elementary School they were worried about these schools high levels of absences.
I'll tell you the numbers in a second. There wow these schools. Principal
Ricky Gibbs noticed a correlation between chronically apps and students and families that needed support.
Backed by community donations, they set up a marketplace called the Warner Exchange.
Again, it's Warner Elementary School. It opens one day every month.
Every student at school gets five Warner Bucks for every day they come to school.
The families can then use those dollars to buy items from the Warner Exchange.
The items basic household items like cleaning products or baby food, diapers,
and other necessities that families using their daily lives. The items are priced around
what they would be at local grocery stores. Gibbs said, if we're truly
trying to change family history, if we're truly trying to change children's trajectory,
you don't do that through a handout. We can only do that by ensuring
that they receive a world class education. But you can't ensure a child receives
a world class education if they're not in school absentees and was at forty two
percent WOW when the program started. It's down at twenty eight percent today.
Nobody has complained yet, but Gibbs says, if we do run into a
situation where a parent is upset they can't access the space because their child hasn't
been a school, I would just reply, I'm beset your child isn't at
school, so now we're both upset. Now time out here, I deliberately
misread the quote. This is the school principle. I'm going to read you
the quote as transcribed here. I'm upset your child ain't at school, so
now we're both upset. One hundred year old Nancy Epley makes custom jackets by
hand. She gives them away. She's stitched together about two hundred quilted coats,
each of which tells a personal tale. Back in October, a senior
living community in Lexington, Virginia, hosted an art show. Twenty five women
modeled custom jackets made by one hundred year old Nancy Epley. One after another.
The twenty five women appeared, each wearing a hand sewn customized jacket.
Epley started making the jackets in nineteen eighty. She started by crafting one for
herself, and as compliments poured in, she made them for other people.
She says, I've always loved clothes, so I decided I'd make a jacket
for myself. People are like, where'd you get that jacket? I was
so flattered. It just went from there. Before beginning a jacket, Epley
asked the wearer questions about style, what colors do you like next to your
face? Do you want to call her? Then she instructs them to make
a list of all the things that matter in their lives, their hobbies,
what they'd like to remember. Ursulla Keilly is eighty seven on her list,
where her family in marriage. She says, the jacket really represents my life,
in my family's life. If there's a fire, this is the only
thing I would take and I'd run. And good news if you like free
pizza. But likely only good news if you like free pizza and you're in
Edinburgh. Mark Wilkinson, he owns Pure Pizza in Morningside. He's trying to
help people struggling with the cost of living crisis. He's offered to give everyone
in Edinburgh a free pizza. Don't quote me on that. Don't be like,
hey, Johnny MAXs had this free pizza here. I'm just tell you
the story. Everyone. Seems like a pretty high promise. But Mark Wilkinson
is quote is saying, I'm very happy with my plan because it's a win
win win for everyone. The customers benefit, the supplier's benefit, my team
of chef's benefit, as it gives them more hours of work. He estimated
it would cost him about twelve thousand pounds. His ovens have the capacity to
make eighteen pizzas every six minutes. The free pizzas will be given to people
who visit a shop in Morningside Drive during January, although not between five thirty
and eight thirty pm. He hopes that anyone takes up the offer will pass
on the act of kindness in their own way. You only have to provide
a valid mobile number, Wilkinson says. I hope my idea doesn't get out
of hand, but I'm not going to start asking for proof of address.
They won't have to bring in a council tax bill with their address audit.
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