Good Mood News - October
Time for another edition of the Good Mood News! Here are a few stories that will be sure to put a smile on your face.
Six-Year Old Given a Public “Thank You” by Highway Department – 6-year-old David Hines loves drawing maps and signs so it was fitting that he noticed something that hundreds of adults and highway department workers did not. He recognized that a sign on a windy road was incorrect. He wrote a letter to the St. Louis Highway Department informing them that the sign had a single curve instead of winding shape. After an investigation, they discovered that David was correct which lead to three new signs being placed making the road much safer. His reward included a public thank you and a visit to the shop where the signs are made.
Space Vacation – Affordable space travel space might be coming sooner than you think. A project funded by Richard Branson, billionaire and founder of Virgin Group, just completed the first-ever manned flight by a commercial spacecraft. The ship called the VSS Enterprise glided from 45,000 feet to the Mojave Desert. Although the initial ticket prices will be a little steep (around $200,000), Branson hopes to “bring space travel down to a price range where hundreds of thousands of people would be able to experience space, and they never dreamed that [they] could."
101-Year-Old Woman Finally Becomes U.S. Citizen – In 1909, Eulalia Garcia crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a baby in her mother’s arms. Back then, citizenship issues weren’t nearly as important as customs and trade and there were no border patrol agents. In 1940, the United States government passed World War II Alien Registration Act, which required all noncitizens to register with the government. Eulalia received a “Certificate of Lawful Entry” card. She never knew her legal status and didn’t bother to check fearing she’d be deported. In 2008, the government started requiring passports to cross the border. Eulalia wanted to continue visiting her family in Mexico, so she went to apply for U.S. citizenship. The card she had been given 69 years ago was still in pristine condition and it was exactly what she needed to obtain her citizenship.
Chilean Miners Rescued – The world watched for more than two months, as 33 Chilean miners were trapped in a dig site deeper than two Empire State Building’s stacked on top of each other. People from all over the world sympathized with the brave men. After a month of digging, it took almost 24 hours to individually hoist each miner to the surface. Mario Sepulveda, the second miner rescued said, "I buried 40 years of my life down there, and I'm going to live a lot longer to be a new person. I think I have learned a lot of wonderful lessons about taking the good path in life.”
-Lisa
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