Good news, you've accidentally been invited to play in The Masters!

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I'm Johnny Mack with five good news
stories. We'll bend in a little bit.

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This first stories good news, bad
news, good news. In the

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end, Scott Stallings got a package
for Christmas and included an invitation to play

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in the Masters. Wow, that's
pretty cool. Yeah, the Masters said,

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hey, come play, you'll be
a guest of the PGA Tour.

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Turns out wrong, Scott Stallings.
There's a professional golfer, Scott Stallings,

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who qualified for the Masters by reaching
the tour championship that Scott Stallings didn't know

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what happened until the first. Scott
Stallings sent up a series of messages on

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Instagram alerting him to the mail mix
up. On Instagram, non golfer Scott

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Stallings, it wrote, high Scotts, my name is Scott Stallings as well.

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I'm from Georgia. My wife's name
is Jennifer. Two. Received FedEx

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today from the Masters inviting me to
play in the Masters Tournament April six through

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nine, twenty twenty three. I'm
one hundred percent sure this is not for

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me. Well, good news.
Golfer Scott Stallings says, we're playing in

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to give non golfer Scotts some practice
round tickets and take him to it on

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Monday night for doing the right thing. That's a lot of fun. I

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like this guy, Pepe or Tis. He is a kindred spirit of mind.

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So what he's doing in Seville,
Spain, anytime he sees an abandoned

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plant, he's trying to save it. I do this. I'll see the

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neighbors. They there are some plants. I actually call myself the plant Whisperer.

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I would take the sickest plant you've
ever seen and nurse it back to

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health. I'm not always successful,
but I just feel bad for these things

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because they're living things. It's just
like, hey, I'll throw it out

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and I'll tell you the story to
second. At the first sign of a

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clutch of abandoned green shoots or forsaken
flowers, Pepe and his team spring into

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action. They snap photos and upload
them to social Mediaport says, one could

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say we're a team of rescuers.
The goal is to save plants. Their

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group now has twenty four hundred members. They've stumbled across orchid speaking out of

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a rubbish band or towering plants dumped
into dumpsters. They post them with the

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exact location to allow them to be
picked up by anybody willing to give them

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a new home. Others use the
group to offer plants they can no longer

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care for, maybe they have space
constraints or an imminent move, where t

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says it's a reclamation of the plant
as a living being. People need to

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realize these aren't just objects to be
used and discarded. They deserve respect,

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care, and a measure of dignity. Following the holiday season, he's worried

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about fir trees, pines, and
points set as. He says, many

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of them are sold at cheap prices
and people buy them as temporary decorations without

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knowing how to take care of them, or businesses by them because they look

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nice in the restaurant and the store, and toss them when the holidays are

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over. A Nashville school has created
a marketplace to combat absenteeism. Administrators at

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Nashville's Warner Elementary School they were worried
about these schools high levels of absences.

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I'll tell you the numbers in a
second. There wow these schools. Principal

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Ricky Gibbs noticed a correlation between chronically
apps and students and families that needed support.

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Backed by community donations, they set
up a marketplace called the Warner Exchange.

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Again, it's Warner Elementary School.
It opens one day every month.

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Every student at school gets five Warner
Bucks for every day they come to school.

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The families can then use those dollars
to buy items from the Warner Exchange.

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The items basic household items like cleaning
products or baby food, diapers,

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and other necessities that families using their
daily lives. The items are priced around

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what they would be at local grocery
stores. Gibbs said, if we're truly

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trying to change family history, if
we're truly trying to change children's trajectory,

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you don't do that through a handout. We can only do that by ensuring

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that they receive a world class education. But you can't ensure a child receives

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a world class education if they're not
in school absentees and was at forty two

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percent WOW when the program started.
It's down at twenty eight percent today.

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Nobody has complained yet, but Gibbs
says, if we do run into a

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situation where a parent is upset they
can't access the space because their child hasn't

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been a school, I would just
reply, I'm beset your child isn't at

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school, so now we're both upset. Now time out here, I deliberately

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misread the quote. This is the
school principle. I'm going to read you

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the quote as transcribed here. I'm
upset your child ain't at school, so

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now we're both upset. One hundred
year old Nancy Epley makes custom jackets by

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hand. She gives them away.
She's stitched together about two hundred quilted coats,

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each of which tells a personal tale. Back in October, a senior

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living community in Lexington, Virginia,
hosted an art show. Twenty five women

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modeled custom jackets made by one hundred
year old Nancy Epley. One after another.

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The twenty five women appeared, each
wearing a hand sewn customized jacket.

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Epley started making the jackets in nineteen
eighty. She started by crafting one for

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herself, and as compliments poured in, she made them for other people.

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She says, I've always loved clothes, so I decided I'd make a jacket

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for myself. People are like,
where'd you get that jacket? I was

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so flattered. It just went from
there. Before beginning a jacket, Epley

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asked the wearer questions about style,
what colors do you like next to your

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face? Do you want to call
her? Then she instructs them to make

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a list of all the things that
matter in their lives, their hobbies,

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what they'd like to remember. Ursulla
Keilly is eighty seven on her list,

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where her family in marriage. She
says, the jacket really represents my life,

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in my family's life. If there's
a fire, this is the only

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thing I would take and I'd run. And good news if you like free

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pizza. But likely only good news
if you like free pizza and you're in

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Edinburgh. Mark Wilkinson, he owns
Pure Pizza in Morningside. He's trying to

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help people struggling with the cost of
living crisis. He's offered to give everyone

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in Edinburgh a free pizza. Don't
quote me on that. Don't be like,

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hey, Johnny MAXs had this free
pizza here. I'm just tell you

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the story. Everyone. Seems like
a pretty high promise. But Mark Wilkinson

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is quote is saying, I'm very
happy with my plan because it's a win

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win win for everyone. The customers
benefit, the supplier's benefit, my team

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of chef's benefit, as it gives
them more hours of work. He estimated

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it would cost him about twelve thousand
pounds. His ovens have the capacity to

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make eighteen pizzas every six minutes.
The free pizzas will be given to people

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who visit a shop in Morningside Drive
during January, although not between five thirty

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and eight thirty pm. He hopes
that anyone takes up the offer will pass

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on the act of kindness in their
own way. You only have to provide

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a valid mobile number, Wilkinson says. I hope my idea doesn't get out

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of hand, but I'm not going
to start asking for proof of address.

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They won't have to bring in a
council tax bill with their address audit.

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