The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Do you
believe in luck? A man from the small town of Luck, Wisconsin got
lucky. He won fifteen point one million dollars in the States Megabucks lottery game
Mark Cunningham purchased his winning ticket at Wayne's Food Plus. He said, dreams
really do come true. He also won another two bucks on another ticket.
A small town in Alabama is honoring a man who paid off his neighbor's pharmacy
bills for years and kept his generosity a secret until shortly before his recent death.
Hody Childress, a farmer and US Air Force veteran, began doing this
anonymously when he walked in a drug store in twenty twelve and learned from the
owner that sometimes families can't afford to pay for their medicines. For about a
decade, on the first of every month, he would walk into the pharmacy
with a one hundred dollar bill. Now, if you want to keep the
legacy going, you can donate directly to Geraldine Pharmacy. Google the Hody Childress
pretty cool that others are keeping this going. Children had said, don't tell
a soul where the money came from. If they asked, just tell them
it's a blessing from the Lord. A fifty seven year old woman from China
has turned a desert into a forest. How do you do that? You
plant a tree every day for thirty five years, That's how you do it.
Yin yu Zen has successfully planted over three hundred thousand native plants and trees
in an arid land of over forty two square kilometers. She said, I
would rather die of fatigue from fighting the sand than be bullied by the sand
and wind. She wasn't always successful. In the beginning. She sold her
family's livestock and purchased six hundred tree saplings to plant around her house, but
only twelve survived. I've tried planting some trees in the backyard, and I'm
batting probably about forty percent with them. Over the years, she worked tirelessly
with the help of her husband, and experimented with different sewing and growing techniques
and prioritize those species of trees that are better adapted to the desert, until
she mastered her desert reforestation skills, increasing the survival rate from one percent to
seventy percent. Yin has received full government sport and over eighty awards for her
efforts. She's been picked as one of the ten most powerful woman in China
twice. She was a torchbearer at the two thousand and eight Beijing Olympics,
and she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand five. Good
news if you're a squirrel living in Scotland. A recent survey of red squirrels
in Scotland has revealed that efforts to increase their numbers have been successful. The
Great Scottish Squirrel Survey, which as you know, is conducted every October,
found that six hundred and fifty nine participants reported two hundred and fifty five gray
squirrels and five hundred and ten red squirrels, more than triple the number reported
in a typical week. Vanessa Fawcett, from the Red Squirrels Survival Trust urged
gardners to help with the conservation efforts by feeding red squirrels and growing food that
would benefit and supplement the existing food sources four red squirrels. The main threat
facing red squirrels are urbanization, gray squirrels competing them for space, and squirrel
box 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
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Hey, good news. You know that painting out in the shed with
all the bird droppings on it that your wife wants you to throw out,
Take a second look, because recently somebody went through this very thing. It
turned out to be an early Van Dyke's sketch allen by Roberts stumbled across this
thing and believed it to be the work by the Dutch master. He bought
it for the excitement of the chase. He bought it for six hundred dollars,
which you know isn't too bad for artwork found in a shed covered in
bird droppings. A study of Saint Jerome is one of only two known live
model works completed by the panther or Anthony van Dyke. Artnet says it was
likely created between sixteen fifteen and sixteen eighteen. It depicts an elderly man with
a long beard slouching on a chair. The eighty seven year old Roberts said,
I've devoted the last thirty years of my life to the search for art
that I like to call orphaned, that for one reason or another, has
been neglected, overlooked, perhaps lost in the shuffle of the art world in
different countries. It is predicted to sell for at three million dollars on auction.
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