The line of cars and people was astonishing for the Empty Bowls Fundraiser on Thursday, 2/24 at Temple Church in New Bern. Empty Bowls is a partnership between Religious Community Services and Craven Arts Council and Gallery. These events raise money for local stop-hunger and arts programing in Craven County by selling tickets for Empty…… read more »
(photo credit: Benaroya Hall, YouTube) Mark Lanegan, a singer for Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age and an integral part of the 1980s and 1990s grunge scene in the Pacific Northwest, died on Tuesday at his home in Killarney, Ireland. He was 57. Eddie Vedder paid tribute to him during last Tuesday night’s…… read more »
A guy in Pennsylvania recently saved his neighbors from a fire. They were trapped upstairs, so he grabbed a ladder . . . crawled under the smoke . . . and pulled a woman out. Then he went back in to get her baby . . . went in a third time to save another…… read more »
According to a new study, Viagra can be a promising treatment for dogs with a fatal eating disorder. The rare condition causes an enlargement of the esophagus, where it won’t move food to the stomach…………….An Instacart worker from Georgia named Jessica Higgs is being credited with saving an older man a few weeks ago. She…… read more »
A dog was reunited with her family in California this month, after being missing for 12 YEARS. Her name is Zoey, she’s 13 now, and she’d been dropped out on a rural property. Someone saw her, and took her to a vet. They scanned her microchip, and discovered that she’d been reported missing in 2010 .…… read more »
JOHN PAUL JONES contributed to an all-star version of the ZEPPELIN classic “When the Levee Breaks” for charity. FLEA, of the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, is selling his crazy, 7-sided house in CA. JOURNEY‘s new album, Freedom, will be released later this year. GEORGE STRAIT and former SKID ROW frontman SEBASTIAN BACH did shots of…… read more »
There’s an area outside Toronto called Durham, and a woman there recently tried to get in touch with police after a guy broke into her house and attacked her. But she accidentally contacted police in Durham, ENGLAND, and even from 3,400 miles away they still came through for her. They got on the horn with police in…… read more »
An 81-year-old guy in Florida is training to compete in the World Ironman Championship later this year. It’s happening in Hawaii in October, and he’ll be the oldest person there. But this ain’t his first rodeo. It’ll be the 20th time he’s done it…………..A World War Two vet from El Paso named Ruben Salcido just…… read more »
Today is Random Act of Kindness Day. So go out there and do something nice for someone else. You might find that kindness tends to come back around………………A 64-year-old janitor at an elementary school in Illinois just became a U.S. citizen last month after moving here from the Philippines. And when he got to school the next…… read more »