A family of dogs was abandoned at the parking lot of the North Side Baptist Church in Abilene, Texas. The poor mother and her nine babies were scared and confused. The blue bin in which the little ones were placed was right beside them.
The sad sight caught the attention of a passerby who was kind enough to share a photo of the dogs on the social media asking for someone to step in and help.
The photo was soon re-shared by many. Among those who have seen it was Misty Boerger from Paw Angel Animal Rescue. She and the rest of the rescuers knew they had to do something for the family in need of help so they took the Boxer mommy and her bundles of joy at their shelter.
The two-week-old puppies wouldn’t leave their mommy’s side even while vets treated her open injuries and wounds. While still at the shelter, one of the puppies died, and Dory, the mother, and the rest of her puppies were taken to a foster family. Although they love it there because they get to spend their days by each others’ side, they will soon be put up for adoption.
The following story is a reminder that if we want something badly, nothing can stand on our way of achieving it. It is a story of dedication and motivation at its best.
Jalen Ballard is a young man who is legally blind. He was born with a condition known as Bilateral Microphthalmia and was forced to undergo cataract surgeries when he was just a three-month-old baby, according to FOX 13 News. On top of that, he struggled with glaucoma all of his life. His condition, however, didn’t prevent him from graduating from high-school as the best in the generation. Jalen was named valedictorian and graduated with a GPA of 4.638.
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Being the best of the best, hard-working Jalen received the Lighthouse Guild Scholarship and will be attending The University of Michigan where he will major in computer science.
Speaking of Jalen’s achievement, the school’s spokesperson said: “Students like Jalen and others, give us that daily, gentle reminder to think of others first.”
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We wish Jalen only the best in the years to come and we are certain he will achieve even greater things in life. Way to go, young man.
It was a day like any other for Mark Purcell, the executive chef at the Pasco Metropolitian Ministries, but nothing could prepare him of how his day would end. He was throwing the trash at the evening and was about to head home when he spotted quite an unusual sight.
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Two tiny heads could be seen among the trash, and Purcell was sure someone threw dolls between the begs, but he still decided to get closer. To his surprise, what he believed were dolls were actually two babies wearing only diapers.
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It was cold outside and Purcell was aware the children wouldn’t survive if he hadn’t found them. He rushed to take them and check whether they were fine. But then, he noticed the baby’s mother just around the corner, crying. She was homeless and she obviously couldn’t take care of the boys any longer. The little one was just six months old, and the older one was a toddler of around two years.
The mother said how living in a tent wasn’t much of a life for her babies so she thought if she left them there near the church someone would step in and provide them with a better life than she herself was able to give them.
Purcell wasn’t sure what to do next, so he called one of the church’s pastors, Krystal Stewart, who agreed to take the babies for the night.
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Steward knew the babies from before as she has seen them and their mother at the church’s soup kitchen at several occasions. She even recalled offering the mother to give them a bath in her house.
The poor babies were in a very bad condition. Filthy and all covered in bugs, they needed a bath and some warm clothes.
A couple of days later, the Stewards and the children’s mother spoke and she asked them if they could take care of the kids while she took the time to find a job and a place to stay. The social worker who was there as well explained that in case Krystal and her husband didn’t take the boys in, they would enter into the foster system.
“This was not talked about, but we just looked at each other, and we knew there was no other option. Of course we said yes,” Krystal said.
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As time passed by, the babies got used to their new life and were happy and thriving. The Stewards already had three children on their own so you can imagine the poops, the laughs and the fun under this family’s roof. They knew those kids belonged by their side so they started the adoption process.
This inspiring story has been shared on YouTube and has been seen by more than 1.5 million people who praised the Stewards for stepping in.
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You can take a look at the whole story in the video below. Please share it with your family and friends.
When Joe Biden was sworn in as 46th President of The United States, his children and grandchildren were there by his side.
President Biden is a father of four. Sadly, his daughter Naomi Christina “Amy” Biden and his first wife Neilia lost their lives in a car accident when Naomy was only 13 months old. They were going shopping for Christmas when a tractor-trailer slammed in their car. The boys, Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III and Robert Hunter Biden, were also in the car. They sustained injuries and were taken to the hospital, and thankfully, recovered completely.
Then, in 2015, Beau lost his battle to cancer.
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In 1977, President Biden married his current wife, first lady Jill Biden. They have a daughter together.
President Biden’s five grandchildren describe him as a devoted granddad who calls them almost every day and reminds them just how much they all mean to him. Speaking of her “pop,” granddaughter Maisy told Today: “That’s something that I feel like some people don’t believe when we say that he literally calls, not just, like, one of us every few days. He calls me, then calls Naomi, then he calls Finn, then he calls Natalie, then he calls Ashley, and then he calls little Hunter.”
Naomi Biden, the oldest of the President’s grandchildren, has been involved in her grandpa’s campaign and says how he always had the support from everyone in the family. Naomi, who is currently living in Washington, near her grandparents, and is working for the law firm Arnold & Porter, according to Wahintonian, is a good friend of former President Trump’s daughter Tiffany. Well, it looks like the hostility between the former and the current POTUS is no obstacle for these two young and beautiful ladies to get along.
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In fact, both Naomi and Tiffany studied at the University of Pennsylvania and both Biden and Trump were in attendance at the girl’s graduation ceremony.
“This is about a dad and a grandfather here to see their daughter and granddaughter graduate,” one father attending the ceremony told Inquirer. “Of course, they come here with a big security posse. But it’s still about a dad and a grandfather.”
According to Guest of a Guest, the girls were partying at the Hamptons together back in 2018 and Tiffany shared a photo of them on her Insta story, along with a double pink and purple heart.
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We so glad that both Tiffany and Naomi are successful in their own way.
The family growing and welcoming new members is always great news. Well, if there is already someone young who refuses to share things such as clothes and toys, the news of another baby coming in could be a huge deal, and this is normal.
When someone is the only child, they are used to getting all the love and all the attention not only from their parents but the rest of the relatives as well, and just the thought of having someone else who would “steal” all that can be devastating when someone is still pretty young.
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However, the mommy from the video below doesn’t have these sorts of problems because her five year old son is over the moon when he gets the news that he’s being promoted to a big brother.
I guess no one can really assume what the reaction would be in these kinds of situations, but this mother is lucky to have her son being all smiles for the new bundle of joy. He keeps asking if the baby really is in his mom’s tummy and melts each time he hears a yes.
We are 100% positive that Ethan would make the best big brother there is. Congrats to the family!
Every child is a different kind of flower and blooms at different period of their life. For example, some start speaking and walking even before they turn one, and others do it at the age of 2 or even 3. But that’s okay, because just like grownups, kids are unlike, and possess different talents.
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Brynn Cartagena was only three years old when she won her first medal at an ice skating competition. Her performance was pretty much flawless. What’s most impressive and most interesting of all is that she only spent overall eight weeks on ice skates before she took part in the Magnolia Open Ice Skating Competition
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At first, she appeared a bit nervous, but once she took the floor, she showed her greatness and skated with confidence.
Brynn is all smiles and is so devoted to her routine that she makes us all fall in love with her and her passion.
And yes, why we love her skating even more is the song she chose to perform on. Having in mind she’s just three on the video, it doesn’t come as a surprise she opted for one of children’s most favorite, The Muffin Man.
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With all her spins and all her cuteness, Brynn won our hearts, and she definitely deserved winning her first medal. Take a look at this cute little lady in the video below. Isn’t she a skater in the making?
Whales are considered one of the most gentle creatures. Not only they are huge and magnificent, but they are very friendly too. That is why the strange behavior of a humpback whale left the 63-year-old biologist Nan Hauser and her crew puzzled.
As they were snorkeling near the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, the 50,000-pound creature approached the boat and left everyone mesmerized. Being so close to such a beauty wasn’t something these lovers of the nature experience that often. They were all eager to make some close-up photos of the whale’s textured skin. But then, all of a sudden, the creature started acting a bit strange. At first it resembled a violent behavior, or maybe what this gentle giant wanted was to play, unaware of how its strength could hurt Hauser.
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What the whale did next was scary. It started pushing the woman through the water, lifted her up on its head, and then constantly tucked her under his pectoral fin. Hauser tried really hard to get away, but to no avail. She pushed it as hard as she could wanting to prevent it from hurting her, but she was simply powerless.
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“I stayed calm to a point but was sure that it was most likely going to be a deadly encounter,” Hauser said. “I tried to get away from him for fear that if he rammed me too hard, or hit me with his flippers or tail, that would break my bones and rupture my organs. If he held me under his pectoral fin, I would have drowned.”
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Everyone who witnessed this encounter was petrified. The team even stopped the drone footage fearing they could accidentally film Hauser’s death.
“I didn’t want to panic, because I knew that he would pick up on my fear,” Hauser added. “I feel a very close kinship with animals, so despite my trepidation, I tried to stay calm and figure out how to get away from him.”
But, it turned out things weren’t as they seemed. The reason behind this atypical behavior was a 15-foot-long tiger shark the whale tried to save Hauser from. First, the team though the creature was another whale, but later, when they noticed it was a shark they became aware of what was really going on.
Another whale that found itself close by slapped the water with its huge tail wanting to divert the shark from the human.
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“I’ve spent 28 years underwater with whales, and have never had a whale so tactile and so insistent on putting me on his head, or belly, or back, or, most of all, trying to tuck me under his huge pectoral fin,” said Hauser.
She also says how she can’t be more grateful for what the whale did for her, although she admits she was scared during the whole time. Once she found her way to the boat, the whale who saved her life poked itself out of the water again just to make sure she was alright.
Hauser who spent her whole life working with whales says how she has seen this type of protective behavior at whales for those of their own kind or other creatures, but this is the first time she witnessed one to step in for a human being.
You can take a look at the chilling encounter in the video below.
No matter how much time passes by, the cast of the iconic TV show The Andy Griffith Show will always remain nothing less than legendary and will be remembered as a crew that left a deep mark on Hollywood.
After the show ended in 1968, large audiences expected from emerging shows to keep the same quality, but at the time, getting even closer to what The Andy Griffith Show provided to the fans was quite impossible.
Among the actors who practically made history, was George Lindsay, who appeared in season four and played good-natured but slow-learner Goober Pyle.
Playing alongside Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, Lindsay fit in the show just perfectly. Over the years, he spoke of his role and how he and the rest of the actors remained good friends after the show was over. He was particularly close to Griffith.
Lindsay was born on December 17, 1928 in Fairfield, Alabama. In high school, he fell in love with acting and excelled in sports, which helped him get a scholarship and finish his studies later.
While studying at the American Theater Wing in New York, Lindsay had comedy gigs at nightclubs. During one of his performances, he was spotted by an agent who signed him, so Lindsay became part of the production All American and Wonderful Town at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre.
Before getting the life-changing role of Goober Pyle, Lindsay appeared in western movies including The Riflemen and Gunsmoke, as well as in several Disney productions and in three episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
Lindsay loved the role and the show. After it ended, he was part of the spin-off series Mayberry R.F.D for three years.
Speaking of working on set with Griffith, he told Huffington Post in 2010, “He was a great leader and the best script constructionist that I’ve ever worked with. And he was easy to work with. If you knew your lines, that’s all you needed… and I worked with another guy that was brilliant and that’s Don Knotts. They were terrific professional actors, and I was honored to be in their company.”
His fellow acting friends felt the same for Lindsay. “George often told me his fondest memories of his life in show business were the years he spent working on ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ and ‘Mayberry R.F.D.’ They were for me, too,” Andy Griffith said in a statement following Lindsey’s passing.
In the years following The Andy Griffith Show, Lindsay landed different roles in different movies, series, and projects, but he somehow believed he wasn’t hired for himself, but for Goober. “It was a nightmare,” Lindsey said according to AI. “Almost everywhere I worked, I insisted they hire me as George Lindsey, but what they really hired was for me to do Goober, even on ‘Hee Haw.’”
In 1955, Lindsay married Joyanne Herbert and they had two children together, George Lindsey, Jr and Camden Lindsey. Although he always said she was the love of his life, the couple divorced in 1991.
Lindsay was knows as a person with a heart of gold who cared for the well-being of other people. He was a supporter of the Special Olympics and helped raise $1 million for it. During the 90’s, this caring man visited patients as hospitals as Goober because he knew it would make them happy. “Maybe it takes a long time for me to catch on,” he said according to AI. “I finally caught on that Goober is a very nice person, and it’s OK to be him.”
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Lindsay passed away in 2012, at the age of 83, of heart failure. He was buried in his hometown of Nashville where he spent most of his life.
Andy Griffith was there to honor his lifelong friend and said through an obituary, “George Lindsey was my friend. I had great respect for his talent and his human spirit. In recent years, we spoke often by telephone. Our last conversation was a few days ago. We would talk about our health, how much we missed our friends who passed before us and usually about something funny. “I am happy to say that as we found ourselves in our eighties, we were not afraid to say, ‘I love you.’ That was the last thing George and I had to say to each other. ‘I love you.’”
George Lindsey-warm intelligent lovable He generated lots of laughs & raised a lot of money for Special Olympics RIP George
Lindsay truly was a very special actor and a person who made many laugh. There will never be another Goober Pyle!
The University of North Alabama awarded Lindsay an honorary doctorate and the state of Alabama have named a section of Birmingham’s Highway 78 as the “George Lindsey Highway.” Amazing tribute to even more amazing man.
