Nov. 27, 2024

Speeding Granny: Donna's Ferrari Adventure

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting stories: a Missouri school is renamed after a beloved custodian, a Las Vegas man breaks a stair-climbing Guinness World Record, a chihuahua is rescued from an Arizona canal, a 94-year-old races a Ferrari at 150 mph, and a humorous incident involving porta potties falling off a truck in Massachusetts. Tune in for these inspiring and entertaining tales!

00:11 Honoring a Local Hero: Claudine Wilson
01:18 Breaking Records at Home: Sean's Everest Challenge
02:02 Rescue Mission: Dorothea the Chihuahua
02:24 Speeding Granny: Donna's Ferrari Adventure
02:46 Porta Potty Mishap in Massachusetts

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey they're I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. A school in Missouri was trying to

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figure out, Hey, we got to rename this school. What

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should we rename it? Who should we rename it? After

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they could have picked all sorts of people, perhaps a

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national figure that would inspire the kids to strive for

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achievement and recognition, they went with Claudine Wilson. Claudine is

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sixty four and has been at the Swedenborg at District

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three elementary school for decades, working not only as a

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custodian janitor, but plumber, landscape or school bus driver, cafeteria,

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and even as a greeter for the kids when they

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show up. The school board has voted unanimously to name

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the school the Claudine Wilson Learning Center. The school's assistant

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administrator told CNN, if you go out in the community

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and you say from Swedenborg, if they don't what anything

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about Swedenborg, the first thing they're going to say is

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is Claudine still there? Many of the schools employees say

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they've the building without her in it, even after she

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officially retired by the start of the next school year.

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She was back driving the bus. Only one person didn't

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think this was deserved. Want to guess who it was?

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It was Claudine, She told CBS it touches her heart,

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but her relationships with the kids are the only rewards

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she requires. Do you have too much free time? A

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Las Vegas man spent nearly twenty three hours going up

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and down the stairs in his home to break the

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Guinness World Record for fastest time to ascend and descend

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the height of Mount Everest on stairs. Sean had to

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climb and descend twenty nine thousand, thirty one feet and

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five point five inches. You don't want to miss this

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thing by under six inches, you know. He did this

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on the stairs in his house. He livestream his event.

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He finished in twenty two hours, fifty seven minutes and

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two seconds. Sean told Guinness. I decided to break this

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record because nobody has done this before, not from sea

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level anyway. Sean even had some of his own rules,

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including never touching the banister because there's no banisters on Everest.

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Good news for a dog that was found floating down

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in Arizona Canal on a shopping cart. No one knows

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how long it was stranded. An emergency animal and medical

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technician from a local nonprofit was dispatched. With the help

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of the fire department, they were able to save the chihuahua.

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The senior dog is named Dorothea. Dorothea is ten years

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old and is now living with a new family in Youngtown, Arizona.

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Donna is ninety four. She was recently racing around the

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Michigan International Speedway in a ferrari and hitting one hundred

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and fifty miles per hour. She joked, my mother used

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to say I came into this world running, and added,

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if you're alive, then live. This was part of the

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local retirement home, walton Wood twelve Oaks Adventure program, which

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encourages residents to pursue their dreams. Meanwhile, be happy you

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weren't in Massachusetts when a truck fared to clear the overpass,

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All right, that's bad enough. The overpass knocked two porta

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potties off the truck and on of the road. It

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gets worse. The truck left the scene. Oh no, dude,

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there's two porta potties on the road and you know stuff.

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But luckily good news. The truck returned twenty minutes later

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to collect its cargo. The locals call this starrowing, named

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for Boston Starro Drive, which features multiple low clearance bridges

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that are often struck by overheight vehicles. Those are your

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five good news stories for today. If you like the program,

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tell a friend about it. Hopefully they'll like it too,

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you know, all right, have a great day.