The Sharing Stories From "World Of Good!" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Reading the stories in my latest Reader's Digest magazine that were part of the three-fold stories to "Make Your Day."  Thought they were so touching that I just had to share them with you.  

The first short story was titled "Playtime for All!"  Began with... Students at Glen Lake Elementary School in Minnetonka, Minnesota, loved their playground.  But kids in wheelchairs or with special needs often felt excluded because the equipment wasn't accessible to them.  So, students mobilized to raise the money needed to make the playground inclusive.  "It didn't seem fair that some kids were left out," fifth grader Wyatt Faucet said.  The youngsters held bake sales, went door to door, and got businesses to donate.  Eventually, they raised $300,000, enough to add a wheelchair swing, a wheelchair-accessible merry-go-round and a rubber surface.  Now, everyone enjoys recess, and that's a good thing, Rhys Riley, another student, told CBS News.  After all, "recess is about having fun."

The second short story was titled "Reef Madness."  Warming waters and pollution have reduced Florida's coral reefs by 90%.  One scientist has a partial solution: king crabs.  Sewage and farm runoff help produce seaweed, also known as macro algae, which smothers and crowds out reefs and blocks the sunshine that baby corals need to grow.  Enter the king crabs...they feast on seaweed!   Marine ecologist Jason Spadaro is hoping to breed 250,000 Caribbean king crabs each year in his Florida Keys lab, then release them to dine away.  According to Vox, studies show that reefs with healthy crab populations saw 85% less algae, a higher density of young corals and more fish than other reefs.  Scientists, says Spadaro, have figured out how to grow corals to replenish reefs.  "Now we need to help them survive." 

The final story was titled "Lady Luck."  Geraldine Gimblet played the Florida lottery regularly, but luck seemed to evade her.  Her fortunes turned worse when her daughter Lawrencina Jackson was diagnosed with breast cancer.  Gimblet emptied her savings to pay for the treatment.  Then last April, the day after Jackson's final successful treatment, Gimblet bought a $10 lottery ticket and won big!  Two million dollars big!!  "I was like, 'Are you sure?'" Gimblet, 74, told "Good Morning America."  Gimblet's action "meant so much to me," Jackson said.  "I don't see where I can repay it.  I just have to keep loving her; maybe that'll help."

Stories such as these stories tend to "Make Your Day!"  If we could only read more stories such as these in our daily newspaper.  Would make the day for many other readers of the newspaper!  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.