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Friday, January 1st, 2010 | Posted by Editor - Blog News Service

Top Ten Happiest Stories of 2009

Happy Stories of 2009

Happy Stories of 2009

I was ask to by an old classmate to find something good happening in the world.
I decided to take it a step further and find the top 10 feel good stories of 2009
Read them all — they’re bound to warm your heart during this cold end-of-year weather.

Patty these are for you:

THE TOP 10 HAPPY-NEWS STORIES OF 2009

1. President Grants Wish to Sick Girl
Jasmina Anema, a 6-year-old girl with leukemia who had already endured rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, wanted one thing: to meet the president. She got her wish earlier this month and spent 10 minutes with Barack Obama in the White House. Jasmina was given a tour, some gifts and even a hug from the president. Jasmina’s story reminds us that despite the political rancor, the divisions that polarize the nation, this is still a country where little girls dream of going to the White House to meet the most powerful person in the land.

2. Wedding ring found amid 10 tons of trash
‘I think it was a miracle,’ relieved woman says after retrieval in N.J. dump.
Sanitation workers sorted through 10 tons of trash to recover a wedding ring accidentally thrown away by a New Jersey couple.

Bridget Pericolo had placed the ring in a cup that her husband, Angelo, threw out with the garbage before leaving for work Monday morning. When he realized the mistake, he contacted the town’s sanitation supervisor, who suggested coming by the Parsippany dump.

Later in the day, supervisor Michael Brotons and sanitation workers Edgar Lopez and Joseph McGee dug through the refuse until they found the garbage bag that Angelo Pericolo had thrown away.

“I think it was a miracle,” Bridget Pericolo told The Daily Record newspaper. According to Brotons, this was not the big recovery at the Parsippany dump. In the past, workers had retrieved a walker and false teeth. “I think we’re three-for-three,” he told the paper.

3. Toddler caught after 40-foot fall from window
2 men hailed as ‘heroes’ for preventing 18-month-old from hitting ground.
LAWRENCE, Mass. – Two men were being hailed as heroes by police on Monday for catching a toddler who fell 40 feet from a home’s third-story window.

Robert Lemire told the North-Andover (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune newspaper that he was talking on his cell phone Sunday evening outside a pizza shop in Lawrence, about 25 miles north of Boston, when he saw the toddler dangling from a window across the street.

The 45-year-old father of two bolted across a busy street, where he met 23-year-old Alex Day, who had been inside the home at a Bible study meeting. Together, they caught the 18-month-old before she hit the ground

4. Dog found 9 years on, 1,200 miles away
What has Muffy been doing? ‘Nobody knows,’ Australian official says.

SYDNEY – Nine years after vanishing from outside her Australian family’s home, Muffy the dog was found alive and well this month in another backyard — 1,200 miles away — officials said Thursday.

Inspectors with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were investigating a possible animal cruelty case at a home in the southern city of Melbourne two weeks ago when they found the fluffy white mutt sleeping outside on a scrap of cardboard, Victoria state RSPCA spokesman Tim Pilgrim said.

A microchip in Muffy’s neck identified her owners, and, after a few days of searching for a current phone number, officials tracked down Natalie Lampard, who hadn’t seen Muffy since the pooch disappeared from her backyard in the eastern city of Brisbane nine years ago. “When the RSPCA described her, I told them her name; I knew immediately it was our Muffy,” Lampard said. “It was totally out of the blue — after nine years, I thought she was long gone.”

‘The mystery continues’
The owners of the Melbourne house where Muffy was discovered said they found the dog about a year ago wandering along a street, Pilgrim said. But where had Muffy spent the previous eight years? And how did she get all the way to Melbourne — about 1,200 miles from Brisbane?

“Nobody knows,” Pilgrim said. “The mystery continues for old Muffy.”

5. Homeless Blogger Lands Gig at Elle
Twenty-four-year-old Brianna Karp didn’t fit the stereotype of a homeless person. But she was, nonetheless, recently laid off from a good-paying job in Orange County, Calif., now living in a camper in a Walmart parking lot with no heat or running water. When she wasn’t sending out resumes, she blogged about her homelessness at a Starbucks, where the unlimited WiFi provided a connection to the outside world. And in twists that would be right at home in an early-21st-century fairy tale, she met her boyfriend on Twitter. And then was offered an internship with Elle magazine.
Brianna had sent an Elle advice columnist a letter signed “Homeless, But Not Hopeless.” The relationship landed her not only the internship but a blog on elle.com writing about her future — which is now considerably brighter.

6. 5-Year-Old Helps Feed 18,000 People in San Francisco
A preschooler’s curiosity led to a fundraising effort that ended up providing food for nearly 18,000 people in San Francisco.
It started when Phoebe Russell asked her mom about a man she saw begging for food during the drive to school. She wanted to raise $1,000 — a goal her teacher called a little ambitious.
They called the San Francisco Food Bank, which found matching funds. Then Phoebe solicited from the school’s alumni. Her total raised was more than $3,700. If that’s what a 5-year-old can do, what can the rest of us accomplish?

7. Inmates baby-sit tot found alone on highway
A prison work crew kept a toddler safe after the child was found wandering alone on a rural highway, Maryland authorities said.

The six minimum-security inmates shared their lunches with the boy and played with him, while authorities spent hours trying to locate the 2-year-old’s relatives, a correction officer said.

A dump truck driver had spotted the toddler early Friday on a hilly quarry road near the Pennsylvania line, a trooper said. The trucker then handed the boy to the litter-picking crew for safekeeping. Troopers eventually found the boy’s home. The father told police the child was being watched by a teenage daughter, who later left without notice.

8. Wallet returned after 63 years
Memories flood back for man, 78, after discovery behind gym bleachers.

BAKER CITY, Ore. – Bill Fulton doesn’t remember losing his wallet, but its return helped him remember the past. The leather stayed smooth and the cowboy design unblemished. The zipper moved with ease. And when he looked inside, the contents brought back memories from 1946, when he apparently dropped the wallet behind the balcony bleachers in the Baker Middle School gym.

Fulton’s Social Security card and bicycle license, bearing the address where he lived during his teenage years, were positioned in their respective compartments, apparently untouched since the year after World War II ended.

“After that long, my gosh, it stayed in good shape,” Fulton told the Baker City Herald. “It’s hard to believe.”
Worker Nathan Osborne found the wallet — along with old homework, lost library books and a 1964 talent show program — while removing the bleachers for renovations on June 17. It was brought to Fulton’s door the following day by Melanie Trindle, the Baker Middle School secretary.

“He was pretty much amazed,” Trindle said. “He just kept saying, ‘Thank you. Thank you so much.’ ”

Middle School Principal Mindi Vaughan said the brown pine bleachers were connected to the gym balcony’s brick wall and had remained in the same place since the school, known as the Helen M. Stack Building, opened in 1936.

Likely lost during basketball game
Fulton, 78, said he probably lost the wallet while cheering for the Baker High basketball team with a group of friends. Though a high school team, the Bulldogs played at the middle school gym back then.

Fulton said he returned to the gym in the 1960s to watch a basketball game. It’s likely he was within a dozen or so feet from his old billfold that night. Both of his children attended the school, so they also must have come near it.Fulton said the bicycle ID was needed because he delivered medicine for Rodamar Drug. He was surprised, however, that his student ID wasn’t inside. He said he always kept it there.

9. Unlikely Star Blows Competition Away
Good news doesn’t get much better than Susan Boyle, the “overnight” sensation who’s been singing most of her 48 years. Since wowing the cranky Simon Cowell on “Britain’s Got Talent,” the frumpy former church worker has knocked us all out since we first saw heard her in April. Maybe importantly, she’s a reminder that it’s never too late pursue your dreams.
Susan Boyle is proof to us all that sometimes it is about substance and not style. Her gift has us rethinking our notions about what is beauty.

10. Grandma delivers baby, Thanksgiving dinner
Mass. woman raced to save turkey after daughter gave birth 2 weeks early

BOSTON – A Boston woman has succeeded at one of the all-time great Thanksgiving Day juggling acts: She cooked the turkey while helping deliver her baby granddaughter.

Patricia McCalop was in the middle of preparing the meal when her daughter suddenly went into labor two weeks early.

McCalop called 911, and a dispatcher talked her through the delivery and helped her confirm that the baby girl was breathing.
Paramedics arrived shortly afterward and took Africa McCalop and her newborn to the hospital. They are both in good health.

Didn’t want turkey to burn
Patricia McCalop said she kept running between the kitchen and her daughter in labor because she didn’t want the turkey to burn while helping her child deliver the baby.

“I’m like, ‘What are you doing with the turkey? We got the baby,’” Africa McCalop told the Boston Herald. “She didn’t know what to do. She’s like, ‘I got to go get the turkey baster.’ I’m like, ‘For what?’”

The infant weighed six pounds.

Honorable Mention:

1. Cave-Dwelling Brothers Inherit Billions
Meet what some might consider the world’s newest most-eligible bachelors: Geza Peladi and his brother, Zsolt. They live in a cave in Hungary. They survive by selling junk they find in the street. And they’ve just inherited billions. (That’s with a “B.”) After hearing the news that they are heirs to the fortune of a long-lost grandmother, the brothers said they hope to make up for lost time, including meeting some nice girls. “No women would look at us living in a cave,” Geza said. The Peladi brothers probably won’t have trouble in that department anymore.

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