Feel Good Friday

“A teenager who has been unhoused for more than a year earned recognition as the valedictorian of his high school’s graduating class. Now, he is using his moment in the spotlight to say it is OK to accept ‘a guiding hand’ when needed.”

+ How a fed up carpenter used GPS to find his stolen power tools — and 15,000 others.

+ “The first stegosaurus skeleton to go under the hammer is set to fetch millions of dollars in New York. But the extraordinary discovery was made by chance, thousands of miles away out west during one man’s birthday stroll.”

+ Melinda French Gates to donate $1bn to women’s rights groups.

+ Trial results for new lung cancer drug are ‘off the charts‘, say doctors.

+ Preschool Teacher Donates Liver to Save Former Student’s Life.

+ “Van Dyke has always said he’ll never retire. And he means it. ‘I’ve just done my first soap opera!’ he says excitedly of his guest spot in Days of Our Lives, for which he’s up for a Daytime Emmy. ‘Never done that before! I played an old guy, of course, in a wheelchair. My wife played my attendant.’ And there are still those aforementioned ambitions to take a one-man show on the road.” At 98, Dick Van Dyke Is Still Going Strong.