Odd News
Students help teammate recovering from cancer complete race
A video of three schoolgirls helping their teammate, who was recuperating from cancer, complete a track-and-field race in New York’s Capital District went viral on social media.
Shared by former American professional basketball player, Rex Chapman, the video showed three students holding the hands of their teammate, Yeva Klingbeil, and walking by her side to help her complete the 4×1 relay.
As the students crossed the finishing line, a huge round of applause came their way from the audience and several students ran to congratulate them.
The students then surrounded Ms Klingbeil, who used to be part of the school’s cross-country team, and shouted her name to praise her indomitable spirit.
Ms Klingbeil hasn’t been able to run since she was diagnosed with cancer in the jaw more than a year ago.
She had been undergoing chemo and radiation therapies but has suffered also some damage to her brain stem and struggles to swallow and even breathe on her own.
– ndtv.com
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
