Georgia tech students and nonprofit, Flowing With Blessings, partner to design/build this mobile laundry bus used to help restore dignity and hope to the homeless population offering laundry services.
Flowing with blessings was founded by Nicky Crawford and they provides essential services like showers and clean clothing to people experiencing homelessness. Check out their social media pages to see more. This photo came from the Georgia tech website.
Timothy VanNostrand (owner/operator of his own logging transport company in Northville, New York) was passing a New York State trooper who had made a traffic stop that escalated into a shootout.
“It happened so fast,” VanNostrand told Fox News Digital. “I wasn’t 100% sure what I saw at first, but l saw the trooper kind of skip sideways a little bit,” VanNostrand said.
“And then I saw the shooter actually pull the gun in his car and start shooting right out through his own back window at the state trooper. A really intense shootout started, and bullets were flying.”
Timothy used his truck to block the suspect from escaping during what was a 12 minute ordeal.
Backup arrived and the officer was taken to the hospital and survived. VanNostrand was later honored by the New York State Police and by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company as a “Highway Hero.” VanNostrand was awarded a cash prize and a ride in the Good Year blimp.
In,a recent video, Spencer helps a woman named Beth who explained that because of her lack of maintenance, the city threatened to charge her $240 to cut her grass, which she couldn’t afford.
Spencer offered to clean up Beth’s lawn and provide more room for her car in the driveway as she responded, “My prayers have been answered.”
The video received millions of views and a gofundme was set up for Beth. Thousands of generous people have donated to help Beth make her home more accessible. What a powerful move by SB Mowing and all who have donated/contributed. Find SB Mowing on most social media platforms to see more of his awesome work.
On the brink of extinction in the 1970s there were only about 200 individuals at that time.
Now, due to reintroduction programs, vaccination schemes and initiatives to reconnect fragmented habitats, the golden lion tamarin has made a great comeback. The IUCN changed the status from critically endangered to endangered in 2003, and the most recent census estimated 4,800 wild individuals now.
Dave Grohl (the frontman of Foo Fighters) was seen working with the LA based Feed The Streets organization stirring a huge vat of chili and moving a batch of containers to help serve those dealing with displacement due to the recent wildfires. It was also his birthday and he turned 56 (Jan 14)
History was removed from Nigeria’s basic school curriculum in 2007, followed by sharp criticism that spanned for years, reports indicated.
Tunji Alausa who is the minister of education, says President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed that history should and will be reintroduced as a subject in Nigeria’s basic schools in
2025.
An adorable wild sloth wandered in overnight after the car windows had been left open.
After checking to make sure it wasn’t harmed, he was safely returned to his natural habitat in the forest. Check out @cantorbrunofarkas to see the video!
This comes directly from Flower The People website:
“Flower the People started in the winter of 2022 when Trevor Phillips realized the dumpster outside of a wholesale florist was overflowing with flowers. Along with his neighbor, he had the bright idea to take them to a nursing home, where they distributed them to the patients. The florist, after hearing about what he was doing, offered to call him whenever they were cleaning out their cooler. Flower the People now serves over forty nursing homes in three different cities, made possible by a group of generous volunteers and florists.”
Indonesia has set aside 71 trillion rupiah ($4.39 billion) for their lunch program in the 2025 budget, with costs set to climb to to an eventual $30-billion a year as the rollout program broadens. The initial phase will provide food to students, with pregnant and breastfeeding women, and toddlers to be included in a later stage.
“One in five children under the age of five in the archipelago of 275 million people is considered too small for their age. Poor nutrition and school attendance means Indonesian students score lower in mathematics, reading, and science, and has often lagged neighbors such as Vietnam.” excerpt from article on yahoo finance
She (& her family) plan to start a “fund of support” for those affected by the fire burning in and around Los Angeles.
Jamie Lee Curtis announced the pledge on Instagram and wrote that she had been in touch with state and city leaders about how the money might be distributed “for the most impact.”
The Eden Project National Wildflower Centre
(NWC) and volunteers who are known as the Wildflower Warriors, have been collecting seeds by hand in order to bring color and life to a major new link road being built in Cornwall. Seed sowing along roughly 45 acres of banks and verges began this autumn and will create a corridor of what organizers are saying is “vitally important” wildflower, woodland and heathland habitats.
This law was passed in California but because many baby food manufacturers sell all over the country, the information will likely be available nationwide for those brands.
This new law requires baby food manufacturers to test their products monthly for heavy metals and disclose the results.
This is considered to be a major shift towards more transparency.
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