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Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Johnnie Mack with five good

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news stories. Good news if you're at a frat or

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at a frat party. A college student is making headlines

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for her clothing line that takes thrown away red solo cups.

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You know the kind takes cups thrown away after frat

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parties and turns them into soft sweaters and beanie caps. Yeah.

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Lauren is an engineering student. She found a New Normal

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collective after discovering a way to turn solo cups into textiles.

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She was always interested in sustainable fashion, but after she graduated,

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she was able to secure grant funding to buy an

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extruder machine, which can turn shredded plastic cups into thread.

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She worked with two other engineering colleges to provide a

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non toxic natural material that would turn icky plastic solo

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cups into a soft, comfortable, nitwear ready yarn. No artificial

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dyes are used in the process, as the pastel shades

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of yellow, green, blue, and pink come from the solo

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cups themselves. Very interesting. Meanwhile, the Red Dress Project is

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allowing people around the world to tell their stories through embroidery.

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The silk dress has been worked on for over fourteen

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years by three hundred and eighty various folks from fifty

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one countries. They've added an estimated billion and a half stitches.

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The Red Dress is now complete. It will be recognized

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in the Guinness World Records twenty twenty six as the

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largest collaborative embroidery project. Starting in two thousand nine, pieces

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of the dress traveled the world while it was being

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worked on. Made from eighty seven panels of Burgundy silk dupion,

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It's been embellished by three hundred and sixty seven women

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and girls, eleven men and boys, and two non binary artists.

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This thing's been to Palestine, Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, China, Nigeria, Namibia.

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All of the commission embroiderers were paid for their work

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and will receive a portion of the ongoing exhibition fees

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and merchandise sales. Nice job by a conservation project. They

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acquired a twenty two thousand acre property from some owners.

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This over by the National Monument in Montana. The acquisition

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of some land and a three point eight mile access

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road will give residents in northwestern Montana and Idaho a

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straight shot to the National Monument's Interior. The CEO said

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this once in a generation opportunity to secure an important

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piece of ecologically and culturally significant land is equally important

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as a way to return public access to the people

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so they could explore, hunt, and recreate on land that's

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been off limit for many years. The previous owners didn't

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want to let people on their lands. Now there's a road.

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Some German tourists hooked up their safari driver. Gina and

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Marina were in South Africa. They were staying in a

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private game reserve about two hours from Cape Town. Their

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driver mentioned he'd never been on a safari. Gina and

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Marina decided to hook him up. They bought up a

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ticket to join them. Gina said, the best part of

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the day for him, I think was when he saw

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the lions and took pictures of them. And this is

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pretty awesome. So you're out there, you're hiking in Colorado,

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and all of a sudden a man shows up. He's

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wearing an ice cream cone costume. He was handing out

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frozen treats. Why, no one sure, but he had ice

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cream sandwiches and ice cream bars and dry ice. He

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was up in Huron Peak over Labor Day, weekend. Word

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spread quickly to hikers. Blaine was out hiking. I heard

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about this and said, eventually we got up to the

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top of the mountain and tired, hot, thirsty, and didn't

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know it, but ice cream was just kind of what

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we wanted. Photos on social media show the man in

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a camping chair with a beer in the armrest, wearing

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sunglasses and a fake mustache. Sounds like a cool dude.

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Those your five good news stories. Have a great day.