Blue Eyed Cicadas

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Shoinny Mack with five good news stories. I don't know about where you are, but it's been a beautiful week where I am so I took the recording equipment outside today, So if you hear birds and planes, landscapers, that's why. What a gorgeous day. I'm here with my puppy. We're enjoying it. And one thing you won't hear are cicadas. They have not hit my local area yet. I know a lot of you are dealing with the cicadas. And good news for the crew at the Morton, a Britum, they had a rare blue eyed cicada. They showed off the blue eyed cicada to a few people visiting the arboretum, then they released it back into the wilds. You joined its red eyed relatives where told the blue eyed cicada headed up to a tree. Floyd Shockley, great name, is the collections manager at the Department of Entomology at the Simithsonian.

0:52 He said, blue eyed cicadas are rare, but they're not sure how rare because it's impossible to estimate how rare because you'd have to collect all the cicadas to know what percentage of the population had the blue eyed mutation. Can't we sample I'm not a scientist. Good news for some Red Sox fan you see, over the last few years, the Stop and Shop food pantry has provided one hundred thousand dollars in food donations to make sure students don't come to school hungary. Red Sox first baseman Tristan Kasas showed up at a ceremony to honor the five year anniversary of Stoppin Shop's food pantry. Tristan surprised the kids and itsire staff with five hundred tickets to a Red Sox game at Fenwade Park. He said, we want to invite all you guys to go to a game this year. He took photos with everybody and you know who else was there, Wally the Green Monster, the team's mascot. Stoppin'hops Jennifer Barr says they now have two hundred and thirty five in school food pantries across five states in the Northeast. Coasa's complimented the kids. He found out forty two of them have perfect attendance. Chester the Dog has a new job. He's not gonna be fighting fires, but he is working for the Libertyville Fire Department.

1:53 He's an eight month old Springer Spaniel. He's trained to facilitate emotional therapeutic and coup for it supportive department employees. He made his way to the fire department from Canines for comfort. Fire Chief Mike Pocosta said, you can't help but love him. Chester joins Elwood, who's a one year old Retriever mix who joined the police department in April twenty twenty three to provide comfort and emotional support to victims. During interviews, Antail Bosters decompress after tough calls. Chief Pocosta says Chester and ellwould know each other, so I see them working a lot together in a team in areas of public education supporting mental health treatment and wellness for those in need, as well as personal mental health support. Scientists have found the first depiction of a horse ever made by humans. The horse was cut from ivory somewhere between thirty five thousand and forty thousand years ago. It is believed the carving represents a stallion, but they're not sure if it's rearing its back legs to fight off a predator, strutting to impress a mayor or merely bending down for a mouthful of grass. Why don't they know John because they don't have the legs to the carving. They have found a whole bunch of things that volgel Herd cave, including over seventeen hondred tools made from bone, antet ivory, and three hundred and twenty six pierced dependants or slashes pieces of jewelry. They found all this since two thousand and five. Pretty cool.

3:08 Hey, good news if you have one of those old fashioned names. They're making a comeback. A woman jumped on Facebook to ask for some quote grandma names for her friend. Thirteen hundred people commented. Popular names included Norma Jeane. One person said if I had a girl, I was gonna call her Norma Jean. Another said, my son's name is Gene, but I named him after my dad. Other names that were suggested Emmelda, Ivy. Someone else said we have an Ivy, Gene, Olive, Dorothy, Betty, Esme, Dulce, Elsie, Mildred, and Mabel. Some of the top ten vintage names that are popular again are Cordelia, Julia, Betty, Dorothy, Florence, Henry, Oliver, Vincent, Patricia and Earl. Some people are attributing the popularity of old lady names to Blake Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds, their three children, James, Betty, and Inex. And those are your five good news stories for today. I hope you're having an awesome day. I sure am. If you would like this program commercial free, check out the link of the show notes. You're gonna go to Caloroga dot supportingcast dot FM, and four ninety nine a month we'll get you this show commercial free, and a bunch of others on the network. Link of the show notes, Have an awesome day.