A man wins the lottery twice - once for $2, and once for $15.1 million!

0:02 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.

1:15 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

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4:08 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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