The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories. A bear
in Boulder, Colorado took some selfies four hundred times. Boulders Open Space and
Mountain Parks Department operates nine motion activated wildlife cameras across it's forty six thousand acres
of land. An inquisitive bear triggered one of the cameras, and of five
hundred and eighty photos captured, four hundred were bear selfies. A spokesperson said,
we're fortunate to live in an area with rich diversity wildlife, and these
cameras help us learn what animals are really out there and what they're up to
over the course of a day, week, or even years. And obviously
they're on Instagram. A good news for Ronald the dog. Ronald had been
returned to the shelter fourteen times, but he has found his forever home.
Ronald's a sixty four pound mixed breed poppy, but apparently people kept adopting them
and then brought them back for one reason or another. Kirsten Davis is a
nurse from Raeford, North Carolina. She was put on a wait list for
Ronald, popular dog returned fourteen times and there's still a wait list. After
a five day trial adoption, Davis knew Ronald was meant to be part of
her family. She officially adopted him in January. That's awesome. A group
of students has built a robotic hand for their fifteen year old classmate, who
said the device changed his life. This is in Tennessee. Classmates of Sergio
built him a robotic hand. A teacher who had learned that Sergio's hand was
not fully formed told him his students could help. Sergio said when he first
got to the high school, he felt like hiding his arm in a sleeve.
However, Jeff Wilkins, a teacher at the school, found out about
Sergio's hand and assigned his students the task of building him a robotic one.
The three students who took up the challenge spent a month designing the prosthetic using
online software and three D printing techniques. One of the students told the local
CBS affiliate, you're supposed to be engineering, coming up with new ideas,
solving issues, and just making things better than how they used to be.
To test it out, Sergio caught a ball this right hand for the first
time, and everybody freaked out. He said, they changed my life.
You know good news if you were a butterfly in Oregon. The Fenders Blue
butterfly has made such a good recovery that its status has been changed from endangered
to just threatened. The butterfly is only found in Williamette Valley in Oregon.
It was believed to be extinct until it was rediscovered in nineteen eighty nine.
In twenty sixteen, there were an estimated twenty nine thousand Fenders Blues, up
from just four thousand at the turn of the century. 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 published books between us. Through end depth
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don't have money to pay for a scoop of ice cream. Charles Foreman owns
Everyday Sunday Sunday with an e at the end of it. You know,
ice cream? You get it, Yes, you get it. Foreman open
the ice cream shop in DC's Pentworth neighborhood in twenty twenty one. He ensures
that everyone walks away with a cone, regardless of their ability to pay.
After one of his regular customers, Nicoll, saw Foreman give a free scoop
to a kid who didn't have any money. She came back with an envelope
containing one hundred bucks. That's enough to pay for twenty eight scoops. Yeah,
you're doing the math in your head, right, I did lazy math,
three fifty scoop something like that. Mister Charles is so great and the
ice cream is excellent two says Nicole. But that was just the start.
Other customers heard about what happened and they made their own donations to the ice
cream fund. Foreman said he could tell when somebody's gone through hard time and
doesn't hesitate off of them a free scoop. He says, it's just part
of being the community, supposed to do all we can to help each other.
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