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Today’s Good News 10-1-21

Today’s Good News 10-1-21

Here’s a guy who turned tragedy into triumph:  52-year-old Bill Bowden lives near L.A.  And sadly, his wife of 26 years passed away in 2019.  So at that point, he didn’t know how to keep going . . . until a coworker encouraged him to start exercising. He was the heaviest he’d ever been at that point . . . about…read more »

Rock News Randoms 10-1-21

Rock News Randoms 10-1-21

Here’s the latest video from AC/DC – it’s for “Through the Mists of Time”, and is a bit of a chronicle of their career. Apparently, DAVE GROHL is an ABBA fan.  Billy Gibbons In a recent interview, ZZ TOP’s BILLY GIBBONS named DEPECHE MODE as an influence. SCORPIONS will release their 19th studio album, “Rock Believer”, on February…read more »

The Filling Station in Pollocksville is STILL Helping All of ENC Bounce Back

The Filling Station in Pollocksville is STILL Helping All of ENC Bounce Back

Thanks to Mary Ann LeRay, Executive Director of The Filling Station , Pollocksville’s community resource, for giving us a tour of their ever-growing outreach operation on Thursday 9/20. She showed WSFL around their ever evolving facility, which houses multiple resources, including their drive thru food pantry distribution that takes place Tuesday and Thursday from 9AM-Noon. They are in…read more »

Today’s Good News 9-30-21

Today’s Good News 9-30-21

Disney World turns 50 tomorrow. It opened on October 1st, 1971, and “The New York Post” just did a story on the ORIGINAL employees who still work there. Two dozen people who were there on opening day are still working at the park. (Disneyland opened 16 years earlier in 1955.)…………….. Remember those rubber balls with a handle you bounced around on…read more »

Today’s Good News 9-29-21

Today’s Good News 9-29-21

Some jerk in Minneapolis stole a guy’s car with his DOG inside last Friday. The guy found his car the next day, but the dog was still missing. Luckily, it’s a very friendly dog, a black lab mix named Vic. And on Monday night, Vic walked right up to a random person in a park, who got him back to his…read more »

Rock News Randoms 9-29-21

Rock News Randoms 9-29-21

METALLICA rocked the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, KY, and two of their songs were done to benefit the Global Citizen livestream, a worldwide charity event. The band also shared pro video of “Harvester Of Sorrow”  from the September 20 “pop-up concert” in Chicago.  3 DOORS DOWN has canceled its shows in Raleigh and Atlanta due to new COVID-19-related regulations put in place since…read more »

Today’s Good News 9-28-21

Today’s Good News 9-28-21

A 100-year-old British man named Eddie Hughes got a big surprise from his family when they gave him the keys to a Bentley S3 . . . the same one he drove as a chauffeur back in 1964.  His son had spent 20 years trying to track it down. Eddie won’t be driving it around town himself…read more »

Fishing Report 9-28-21

Fishing Report 9-28-21

Finally the best months of the year for fishing are here.  Go find some bloodworms.  The jumbo spots are here right now.  Also fishing is great for Spanish mackerel, kings, mahi, wahoo, flounder and puppy drum along with trout, blues, and mullet. Fresh water fishing is excellent,  Bass on Whopper ploppers and buzz baits are…read more »

Today’s Good News 9-27-21

Today’s Good News 9-27-21

Because of the school bus driver shortage, a 12-year-old in Colorado named Josh Smith didn’t know if he’d have a seat or not.  So he convinced his parents to let him kayak to school.  They live next to a big reservoir, and his school is on the other side. He says he got there a little late the first…read more »

Rock News Randoms 9-27-21

Rock News Randoms 9-27-21

An EP from GUNS N’ ROSES is coming out February 25th called “Hard Skool”.  It’s exclusive to their online merchandise store and will include four songs: “Hard Skool”, “Absurd”, and live versions of “Don’t Cry” and “You’re Crazy”. Here’s audio of the title track. RINGO STARR says the six-hour documentary PETER JACKSON is doing about the BEATLES is a “masterpiece”.  A cyclist has recreated the cover of NIRVANA‘s…read more »

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