This week’s good news roundup
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This week’s 5 Stories
- He made a bar bet to walk from Chile to England
- Teacher sets Guinness World Record after working for 61 years at the same school
- My mom made it thru open heart surgery yesterday
- Colombia bans child marriages. Saves more than 300,000 children.
- Bus driver saves koala from traffic. Lets it ride the bus.
He made a bar bet to walk from Chile to England
Karl Bushby, 54, made a bet in his twenties that he could walk from South America all the way back to England.
Teacher sets Guinness World Record after working for 61 years at the same school
Glenda Akin, 84, retired from Westmoreland High School, TN, in 2024. Akin worked there for 61 years and 43 days. She started as a teacher and later became a librarian.
My mom made it thru open heart surgery yesterday
She’s been thru alot in life, this was not her time to go yet. I still can’t believe she’s already sitting up and ordering food like this!
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Colombia bans child marriages. Saves more than 300,000 children.
Colombia’s Congress has banned child marriage, raising the minimum age to 18. The new law was approved in November 2024.
Bus driver saves koala from traffic. Lets it ride the bus.
A bus driver from Brisbane, Australia, spotted a koala dodging traffic on a busy city street on December 13. The koala had scrambled up a light post, and the driver worried it might fall into heavy traffic below.
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