Beach Dog wasn't lost, her owner was windsurfing!

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The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack
with five good News Stories. Congratulations to

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Willie and Geraldine Chambers. Was their
anniversary. Willie Chambers is ninety nine,

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Geraldine Chambers ninety eight. Geraldine said
I didn't pay him any attention. Willie

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clarified, I've known her ever since
she was around four years old. Willie

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remembers when he mustered up the courage
to share his feelings. Willy said,

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his memory serves me right. Was
on a fifth Sunday in the late thirties.

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Church in school, the only two
places the two would run into each

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other, and she didn't make it
too easy for him. Geraldine said.

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One of my classmates told me there's
somebody wants to talk to you, and

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I said who. They said,
that's all right, don't worry about it.

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You'll find out what's their secret to
longevity? Geraldine said, I dare

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not tell you. Willie said the
marriage hasn't always been cream and honey.

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One thing I love about her is
she's bossy. Geraldine said, I'm glad

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you said that, Willie. I
don't know she grows on you. They

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have two daughters, six children,
thirteen great grandchildren and eight great great grandchildren

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congratulations. Meanwhile, in Texas,
Elaine Cooper celebrated her one hundredth birthday.

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She's devoted sixty one years to serving
at the Texas Children's Hospital. She retired

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in twenty fifteen. She said,
I love being with people. It's the

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best. There's no hospital like it. For her one hundredth birthday, the

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hospital shared a photo of Cooper and
a Facebook post honoring its longest serving volunteer.

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From working at the all volunteer woman
run snack bar for fourteen years,

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to delivering mail and giving tours,
she went above and beyond. She served

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a forty five year stint at the
hospital's information desk. She said, there

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were ten of us that were the
first to start volunteering, and I lasted

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longer than anybody, but I loved
it so much. I had three favorite

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doctors that came every day I was
there. Would call them mister Tuna Fish,

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Mister grilled Cheese, and mister Rosebeef. And she added mister rose Beef

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preferred mustard and pickles on his sandwich. Laura Carney is trying to complete her

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father's bucket list. He was killed
by a distracted driver when Laura was just

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twenty five years old. Dad wrote
the bucket list in nineteen seventy eight.

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The list consisted of sixty tasks,
five of which had been completed before his

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death, including do a comedy monologue
and a nightclub, and see a World

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series game live. Carney said,
I needed to finish it. It's what

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I'm supposed to do. She finished
the last item in December, five years

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and eleven months after her father's death. She revealed that one of the tasks

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on a list was payback my dad
one thousand dollars plus interest. That one

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was marked failed. The list was
titled things I'd like to do in my

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lifetime, including swim the with of
a river, grow a watermelon, be

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invited to a political convention, and
correspond with the Pope. There were also

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travel goals, including going to see
New Orleans, San Diego, Las Vegas,

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Chicago, Paris, London, and
Vienna. Carney's story will be told

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an upcoming book called My Father's List. I remember when I was down in

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Sydney, Australia. I did the
Sydney Bridge Climb and I was with a

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man named John. I remember John's
name because my name is John. And

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he was with his daughter, and
John was trying to complete his bucket list.

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He was probably eighties something at the
time. Cool guy, and I

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always wonder did he complete his list? And I've tried finding him online.

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This story takes place in twenty fifteen, and I haven't been able to figure

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out who he is or was.
But I hope he's still around. I

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hope he completed his list. Anywar
Abdullah is trying to help the corals.

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For four decades, he worked alone. Twice daily he went out to see,

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staying underwater for as long as his
oxygen supply allowed. He learned the

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shapes and textures of corals long before
he knew their Latin names. He studied

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the conditions in which they thrived,
the water temperature, the sun exposure,

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the diversity, and saw how the
disruption of just one of those factors could

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bring about mass death. He dedicated
himself to reviving the reefs. He said,

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everybody thought I was stupid, but
I knew I was doing the most

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important thing in the world. In
twenty seventeen, Thailand's government asked Abdullah to

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initiate the rehabilitation of one of its
most famous tourist attractions, Maya Bay,

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which had lost half its coral population
after years of unbridled tourism. Visitors were

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kept out of the site for three
years while Abdullah led a team of one

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hundred and twenty people, including staff
from Thailand's Department of National Parks and planting

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new corals to build his nurseries.
He doesn't use steal pipes or concrete blocks

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he can't afford them. He gathers
rocks from the seafloor and he stacks them

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so they aren't toppled by the currents. He searches for broken pieces of coral

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and existing reefs and it fixes them
to the rocks using water resistant animal friendly

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glue. He's runted a small wooden
shelle not far from the shore, and

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twice a day he'll trek down through
the forest to visit his young corals.

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His goals to see that they make
it through the monsoon season. I am

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good news for me. I was
recently down in Key West, Florida.

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By the way, I host a
travel podcast. It's called Travel Is

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Back, and in March I am
sharing the Key West Travels. Anyway,

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so my daughter and I were sitting
there on the beach and this cool dog

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came by, and the dog was
like super friendly. I have dogs,

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and this dog was like super well
behaved, but I didn't see that it

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was with any humans. And I
was about him, and he came and

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he sat with us, and he
was so well behaved, and then he

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got distracted. Another dog came to
the beach, and he went over to

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say hi to the dog, just
in a friendly way, not a jerky

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way. He was like, hey, other dog, I'm also a dog.

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Then he came back and sat with
us, and I'm looking at this

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dog and he's healthy, and he's
got weight on him, and he's probably

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like eight nine years old, and
like, I'm like, Oh, this

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dog is awesome. Are you a
lost dog? He had no collar on.

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I'm like, oh, if I
were anywhere close to home, I

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would bring you home and give you
a home. But there's nothing I could

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do. And I said to my
daughter, I go, you know,

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it's seventy five degrees and Sonny every
day, and this dog is clearly eating

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something. He's probably better off here
on the beach than throwing him in a

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shelter. All right, nice meeting
a dog. And I went home and

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I couldn't stop thinking about the dog. And then the next day I couldn't

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stop thinking about the dog. So
I went on Facebook on the Key West

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Lost Pets page, and I posted
a picture of the dog and I'm telling

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you, within ten minutes there was
a whole thread of like, hey,

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in the guy's name, isn't this
your dog? And the guy was like,

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yeah, that's my dog. Apparently
the dog's owner was out windsurfing and

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the dog just out on the beach
and all the locals know this dog,

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and this dog isn't lost at all, and the locals were like kind of

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like, hey, you dumb yankee, you like leave the dog alone,

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And again, I just wanted the
dog to be okay. The dog was

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awesome. So it made me really
happy to know that Nala the dog is

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safe and enjoying her time on the
beach. That's your five good news stories

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