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<v Speaker 1>Caalaroga Shock Media. Hey there of Johnny Mack with five

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<v Speaker 1>good news stories. The hottest meeting spot in Kansas City

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<v Speaker 1>is a railroad bridge. That's right. It's a one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and twenty year old railroad bridge that once carried trains

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<v Speaker 1>across the Kansas River. The Rock Island Bridge has reopened

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<v Speaker 1>as a destination featuring restaurants and events based scenic walking

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<v Speaker 1>paths and panoramic river views. That's right. The redevelopment cost

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<v Speaker 1>twenty million dollars. Engineers discovered the bridge's original steel structure

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<v Speaker 1>was remarkably well preserved. They to replace a few bolts

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<v Speaker 1>and clean up some rust, but much of the one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and twenty year old framework remained intact. Today, visitors

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<v Speaker 1>can stroll across the bridge for free, dying at a

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<v Speaker 1>restaurant built into the historic trusses, not for free or

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<v Speaker 1>tent concerts, markets and community events overlooking the river. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>on Kent, England, a pair of weathered garden ornaments that

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<v Speaker 1>had been dismissed as old concrete decorations turned out to

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<v Speaker 1>be rare eighteenth century Italian marble sculptures worth thousands of dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>These statues were discovered during a house sale where they

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<v Speaker 1>had spent years sitting outside with the garden plants. The

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<v Speaker 1>homeowner believed they were just, you know, concrete ornaments, but

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<v Speaker 1>in a state sale expert noticed something unusual. After closer inspection,

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<v Speaker 1>the bus were identified as hand carved marble sculptures created

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<v Speaker 1>in Florence, Italy, sometime between seventeen twenty and seventeen thirty.

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<v Speaker 1>The two figures depict Apollo, the Greek god of music

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<v Speaker 1>in the sun, and Diana, the goddess of the hunt

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<v Speaker 1>and the moon. Experts believe they may have once decorated

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<v Speaker 1>a grand estate or formal garden before making their way

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<v Speaker 1>to Britain during the era of the Grand Tour, when

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<v Speaker 1>wealthy travelers would turned home with European art and antiques.

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<v Speaker 1>In France, one of the most famous museums has opened

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<v Speaker 1>a gallery unlike any other. The goal is for every

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<v Speaker 1>piece on display to leave The Messelle d'urse has created

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<v Speaker 1>a permanent exhibition featuring artwork stolen during the Nazi occupation

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<v Speaker 1>of France and World War Two that still have no

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<v Speaker 1>identified rightful owners. More than one hundred thousand works of

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<v Speaker 1>art were loose from France during the war. After the

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<v Speaker 1>conflict ended, about sixty thousand pieces were recovered in Germany

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<v Speaker 1>and Austria. Roughly forty five thousand of those were eventually

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<v Speaker 1>returned to the owners, thousands remained unclaimed. The new exhibit

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<v Speaker 1>highlights the effort to return those to the people with

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<v Speaker 1>the proper ownership. Each artwork is accompanied by information tracing

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<v Speaker 1>what's known about the journey from where it was found

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<v Speaker 1>how it entered the museum collection, while also making clear

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<v Speaker 1>what remains a mystery. In Minneapolis, a new way for

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<v Speaker 1>local artists to share their work. You'll find it inside

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<v Speaker 1>ink Will booksellers. Customers can insert four quarters into a

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<v Speaker 1>vending machine and receive a mystery piece of original artwork

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<v Speaker 1>for just the one dollar. The project was created by

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<v Speaker 1>Lilly In, a Minnesota artist who wanted to make it

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<v Speaker 1>easier for merging artists to sell their work and connect

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<v Speaker 1>with new audiences. Each lot in the machine features creations

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<v Speaker 1>from a different local artists, along with a short biography

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<v Speaker 1>explaining who they are. Buyers never know exactly what they'll

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<v Speaker 1>get until the small envelope drops into the tray. Since

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<v Speaker 1>the machine was installed, as sold nearly three thousand miniature

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<v Speaker 1>artworks with every dollar going directly to the artists. Several

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<v Speaker 1>artists reported that customers later sought them out at art

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<v Speaker 1>fairs and purchased additional pieces and good news from Mark,

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<v Speaker 1>he was reunited with his wallet that he lost thirty

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<v Speaker 1>years ago. Here's the twist, he didn't even know he

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<v Speaker 1>had lost it. Mark's wallet was discovered during a community

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<v Speaker 1>cleanup beneath overgrown vegetation in what had once been a

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<v Speaker 1>private garden. Inside was a collection of memories from the

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<v Speaker 1>early nineties, including a membership card for Leeds United's at

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety two season, back when Dexter covered the club

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<v Speaker 1>for The Yorkshire Evening Post. Mark has no memory of

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<v Speaker 1>even losing the wallet. He said he spent a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of time in the area but doesn't remember being over

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<v Speaker 1>that way. His best guests is somebody stole the wallet

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<v Speaker 1>after night out thirty years ago. He looked back at

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<v Speaker 1>his thirty year old photo ID and reflected that yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>he was thirty years old, loved working in journalism and

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<v Speaker 1>was simply enjoying life. Good attitude and those your five

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<v Speaker 1>good news stories for today, have a good one.