Aggressive Canada goose refuses to leave MLB game in Arizona

You are out!.....



The Toronto Blue Jays aren’t alone in heading south from Canada for spring training this year.

A Canada goose was the talk of Sunday’s Cactus League game between the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale, Arizona. The feisty goose parked itself in centre field and refused to leave, providing a distraction for the outfielders on both teams.

The game continued with the bird in play.



“We saw some Canada geese flying over before the game, but I didn’t know they had tickets for the game,” the broadcasters joked.

At one point, there was an altercation between two geese in centre field, with one apparently defending its territory.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/aggress ... e-mlb-game

[PennySerenade]

Swimming pool and floating restaurant could be coming to part of Toronto's waterfront



TORONTO -- A public swimming pool, a floating restaurant and an amphitheatre could be coming to a derelict part of the city’s waterfront.

Waterfront Toronto has released its vision for an ambitious overall of a slip located at the foot of Parliament Street in the city’s East Bayfront neighbourhood.

The plan would see the area surrounding the slip transformed into what Waterfront Toronto says would be a “world class, public destination for swimming, kayaking, boating, entertainment, and dining.”


The planning process is still underway but Waterfront Toronto’s vision for the area includes a “water amphitheatre, a floating restaurant, a canoe/kayak launch, a water transportation hub and a floating dock with concessions."

Waterfront Toronto says that it would also incorporate a public swimming pool in the area to the immediate north of the boardwalk.

“Great waterfronts around the world have distinct defining features. Memorable design, welcoming public spaces, the ability to serve recreational and transportation needs, waterfront dining and retail options, and cultural attractions," Chief Planning and Design Officer for Waterfront Toronto Chris Glaisek said in a press release. "Parliament Slip is where we can bring all of these features to life, create a more active and inclusive destination for everyone, and build a lasting connection between Toronto and the waterfront that we can showcase to the world.”



The plan for Parliament slip was borne out of a 2020 update to Waterfront Toronto’s harbour development strategy, first released a decade prior.

Waterfront Toronto says that the plan would seek to mimic the iconic wave decks at the foot of Simcoe Street, Rees Street and Spadina Avenue and is part of a wider strategy to create a “continuous waterfront loop” from Ontario Place in the west to the Port Lands in the east.

"Toronto was born on the waterfront but industry forced it to turn its back from the lake. With today's announcement we are fulfilling our promise to reorient the city back to the water," Waterfront Toronto CEO George Zegarac said in the press release.

A timeline of the overhaul of Parliament Slip has not yet been provided and Waterfront Toronto says that it still needs to conduct extensive public consultation on the idea.

[BigGlen]

All those in favor say meow: Pets banned from bill hearings



Politically active pets are out of luck in New Hampshire, where some lawmakers have been told to keep their cats and dogs out of the room when they log on for remote hearings

Politically active pets are out of luck in New Hampshire, where some lawmakers have been told to keep their cats and dogs out of the room when they log on for remote hearings.



Rep. Anita Burroughs, a Democrat from Glen, said her cats, Yoshi and Jack, have made appearances during several recent House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee hearings — including Wednesday, when Yoshi’s fluffy black-and-white face partially obscured her own as he moved in for some attention. No one objected at the time, but a colleague later passed along a message from the committee chair, Republican Rep. John Hunt of Rindge.



“The chair talked to her and said no animals in the room,” Burroughs said. “I can try to keep the cats off the screen. Keeping them out of the room is going to be impossible.”

Burroughs said at least one other lawmaker’s cat attended the hearing, and another’s dog barked briefly in the background. Lawmakers’ children also have popped up, she said.



“That’s part of the life we’re living right now, and pets are part of it, too,” she said. “For me personally, it’s just calming having my animals sit next to me so I can pet them, and it doesn’t distract me in any way. I’m fully attentive to what’s going on.”

[hija]

‘Land is worth more when left to nature’ – study



Conserving or restoring natural sites such as woodlands and wetlands would be more valuable than using the same sites for farming or timber, according to a major new study.

Researchers found that the economic benefits of protecting nature-rich sites outweigh the profit potential the same sites could make by extracting resource. It suggests that even if making money – and not nature – is the priority, conserving these habitats still makes financial sense.

The study, led by the University of Cambridge and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), is the largest ever to compare the value of protecting nature at particular locations with that of exploiting it.

Dozens of sites across six continents, from Kenya to Fiji and China to the UK, were analysed.

The research team calculated the monetary worth of each site’s “ecosystem services”, such as carbon storage and flood protection, as well as likely dividends from converting it for production of goods such as crops and timber.

Of 24 sites analysed, over 70 per cent provided more economic value to humanity in their natural state, including all forest sites examined.

One of the major economic benefits natural habitats have is from their regulation of the greenhouse gases driving climate change, including the sequestration of carbon, the researchers said.

Lead author, Dr Richard Bradbury from the RSPB, and honorary fellow at the University of Cambridge, said: “Stemming biodiversity loss is a vital goal in itself, but nature also fundamentally underpins human wellbeing.

“We need nature-related financial disclosure, and incentives for nature-focused land management, whether through taxes and regulation or subsidies for ecosystem services.”

The scientists found that Hesketh Out Marsh – a saltmarsh near Preston, UK – is worth almost £1,500 per hectare annually in emissions mitigation alone, outstripping any value that could otherwise be made from crops or grazing.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, come just weeks after a landmark review by Cambridge professor Sir Partha Dasgupta called for the value of biodiversity to be placed at the heart of global economics.

In the review, which was commissioned by the UK Treasury, Dasgupta wrote: “Nature is our home. Good economics demands we manage it better.

“Truly sustainable economic growth and development means recognising that our long-term prosperity relies on rebalancing our demand of nature’s goods and services with its capacity to supply them. It also means accounting fully for the impact of our interactions with nature. Covid-19 has shown us what can happen when we don’t do this.”

[goldie0608]

10 Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Two Men Are Still Living There Taking Care of Everyone’s Pets



When clouds of radiation began streaming into the air around the Fukushima nuclear plant, 160,000 residents were told to simply cut and run.

However, it seems only 159,998 residents listened. The other two—Naoto Matsumura and Sakae Kato—remained. Evidently, the city possessed not one, but two men whose love of animals cracked through their innate sense of self-preservation; men who would give up everything rather than consigning other beings to starvation.

Living within the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around the damaged reactor, the two men, unrelated to one another, both live alone while taking care of dozens of stray animals that were left behind when the evacuation order was given.

Reports from Reuters and DW state that 57-year-old Kato has 41 cats who live with him in his home in the mountains—along with a stray dog he adopted named Pochi. Kato says he will stay with his cats and ensure they are comfortable all through their lives.

Kato’s generosity isn’t restricted to his own animals, and he has taken to feeding local wild boars, considered pests by the government.

Guardian and Champion



Matsumura left the city at first, but returned shortly after for his own animals. Once returned, the now 55-year old realized that everyone else’s pets and livestock were still there, so he began taking care of a broad community of animals including pigs, cats, dogs, ponies, ostriches, and cows.

When he first evacuated, some of his family outside of the exclusion zone told him he couldn’t stay with them due to the risk of contamination. The refugee camps outside the area were filling up fast, and Matsumura felt everything was too much of a hassle.

GNN reported in 2015 that he went back inside the exclusion zone and realized local pet dogs had not eaten in several days. After it became clear no-one was coming back to the neighborhood, he went around unchaining dogs from trees, letting cows out of their barns, and feeding anything that needed it, earning him the moniker the ‘Guardian of Fukushima’s Animals’.

According to scientists from JAXA, the Japanese national space agency, Matsumura is also the “champion”—the most irradiated man in the country. Despite this, they’ve advised him it will likely be 30-40 years before radiation begins to wreck his biology, a timeline which will see him “likely dead by then.”

Until that day, he funds the feeding of the local animals through donations on a website he made via infrequent solar power—as he lives without electricity or running water.

Everything both Kato and Matsumura are doing is technically illegal, and police have ordered them both to leave the area. Yet they seemingly couldn’t be less bothered by the government’s demands, and both plan to stay there with their animals come what may.

[johngriffen]

I sometimes get REALLY DEPRESSED reviewing the news these days.
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

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But the cheeky boar and its two piglets appear to be too quick for the sunbather, who can't keep up with their speedy little trotters.
As the incident unfolds, groups of friends and family sat on the grass watch on and laugh.
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The incident happened at Teufelssee Lake - a bathing spot in the Grunwell Forest in Berlin, Germany.

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[Fatima99]

Delivery driver catches and saves toddler who fell from 12th-floor balcony

A delivery driver is being heralded as a hero, after he caught and saved a toddler after she fell from a 12th-floor balcony.

The toddler had managed to climb over the railing of her balcony in Hanoi, Vietnam, and was dangling precariously, 12 storeys up.

Neighbours from surrounding apartments were screaming and shouting – the noise alerted delivery driver Nguyen Ngoc Manh, 31, who was sitting in his car on the street.

He told news outlets that without thinking, he jumped out of his car and onto the roof of a nearby shed.

“I scaled the wall and saw that she could fall onto the metallic roof of the house used to store electric generators for the complex, so I tried to climb on top of it,” Manh told local news.

“I made it, but couldn’t stand firmly, as [it] was crooked.”

Video footage taken shows the terrifying moment the three-year-old child loses its grip on the balcony rail, falling.

What we don’t see is Manh underneath, stumbling – but ultimately catching and saving the child’s life.

Delivery driver Nguyen Ngoc Manh says he doesn’t want to be called a hero – he was just trying to do good, he says.



He lost his footing, he says, but threw himself forward onto the roof to break the fall of the child. He just made it (and denting the roof substantially in the process).

Doctors diagnosed the girl, 3, with a dislocated hip, but no other injuries from the 50-metre drop.

Manh is now being treated as a celebrity.

“It’s not just changed, my life has turned upside down,” he told press.



“Normally my Facebook posts draw only a few dozen responses, now I get tens of thousands.

“Some have sent me money via my phone number. This disorientates me. I don’t want to receive any money I haven’t earned by myself.”

Video here
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/good-ne ... dler-fall/

PALEONTOLOGISTS IDENTIFY THE OLDEST TITANOSAUR THAT EVER ROAMED THE EARTH



In the kingdom of the dinosaurs, size definitely matters, and when measuring up to other prehistoric creatures the group of long-necked, plant-eating sauropods known as titanosaurs were the biggest beasts ever to plod across primeval Earth.

Titanosaur fossils as a whole have been well-established since the late nineteenth century, and discoveries include the largest terrestrial species in history such as the Argentinosaurus located in Neuquén, the Patagotitan from the province of Chubut, and the Notocolossus from the area of Mendoza.

Now to add to its notoriety, paleontologists in Argentina have identified the oldest known species of titanosaur that they've officially named Ninjatitan zapatai. This massive animal lived nearly 140 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous in the territory of what is now modern day Patagonia, Argentina. Details of the discovery were delivered in a new research paper submitted to the online scientific journal Ameghiniana.

“There were large animals towards the end of the Jurassic period, such as Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus," Dr. Pablo Ariel Gallina, a paleontologist at the Fundación Azara in Maimonides University and CONICET, told Agencia CTyS. "And, already in the line of titanosaurs, the pulse with the largest giants occurs towards the middle of the Cretaceous period, with species such as Patagotitan, Argentinosaurus or Notocolossus.”

According to the study, the presence of a basal titanosaurian sauropod in the lowermost Cretaceous of Patagonia helps supports the theory that the diverse group was well established in the southern hemisphere and highlights the notion of a Gondwanan origin (the supercontinent made up of what's now South America, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica) for Titanosauria.



The prehistoric postcranial remains of Ninjatitan zapatai were first discovered back in 2014 in the Bajada Colorada Formation in the Neuquén province of Patagonia. Ninjatitan zapatai measured in at approximately 66 feet in length, and had an extremely long neck and thick tail. Its name was given in honor of the Argentine paleontologist Sebastián Apesteguía, who is affectionately nicknamed "The Ninja."



“In the following campaign, three vertebrae and some bones of its hind legs appeared; a part of the femur and what would be its fibula," Dr. Juan Ignacio Canale told Agencia CTyS. “There began the preparation of the materials in the Museum of Villa El Chocón. Until that moment, we knew that it was a sauropod, but when we carried out the detailed study of the phylogenetic relationships, of the kinship relationships of this animal with other known species, we realized that it belonged to the group of titanosaurs, for so the importance of this discovery was even greater than we had imagined at the beginning.”

The most surprising fact to emerge in the research into its origins was the conclusion that Ninjatitan zapatai was munching on trees and leaves over 130 million years ago, giving it the distinction of being the oldest known member of the colossal Titanosauria lineage, though not exactly the largest.

"The Bajada Colorada dinosaur fauna represents one of the most diverse and unique associations not previously documented, from the lowermost Cretaceous deposits worldwide; a moment in dinosaur evolution little explored," Dr. Gallina tells SYFY WIRE.

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/paleontol ... ever-found

Nando's customer makes 'obscene' order of chicken burger with 50 extra slices of cheese

A Nando's customer has left people horrified after ordering a chicken burger with 50 additional slices of cheese.

The restaurant allows people to customise their meals when ordering through an app for home delivery and one worker shared the enormous receipt of the bizarre request which had come through.

It shows a grilled chicken burger with 50 cheddar cheese slices (with each adding 60p to the bill), as well as garlic peri peri sauce and 10 chicken wings.

Images posted on Reddit and captioned: "Someone ordered a burger in Nando's with 50 slices of cheese" show a bun piled up high with the chicken, lettuce and sauce all separated by a sizeable pile of cheese.

Not everyone was impressed, as one person commented to say: "That is obscene" and another wrote: "Cheesus christ that’s a hefty amount of cheddar."

Some wondered if the order had even been intentional as one person wrote: "Lol this was an accident surely."

And another responded: "That’s what I’m thinking too. Maybe it didn’t confirm the change or something so they just kept doing it – I’d like to have seen their reaction when that turned up."

But someone else argued back: "They'd had to have clicked an already checked checkbox nearly 50 times for that to be true and not noticed the burger cost £30 throughout the checkout process where it is very clearly shown so I'm guessing it's more likely someone who's done it to take photos of for their Instagram."

Another jokingly commented: "My mate Dave’s crazy. One time he only went and ordered fifty slices of cheese with his Nando's. What a total legend."

And one person asked: "Are shenanigans like this the reason why McDonald's doesn't let me add extra burgers to my burger?"

[PennySerenade]

Waterloo man hiding cash around the region for people to find



KITCHENER -- A Waterloo man is using TikTok to post about money he's hidden for people to find around Waterloo Region.

Juwon Thomas said it's his way to help those who may be struggling amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

He said he's been doing it since the summer, tucking cash away in hidden places and giving clues to people about where to find it.

"If you know the area, there's $100 for you to find," he said in one of the videos.

He started out hiding small sums, usually just $10 at a time, but recently started taking out large amounts of cash.

"I work a lot and I save, and what keeps me going is when I see the smile on people's face. It just brings me joy," he said.

He said he started doling out the cash as a way to stand out while giving back at the same time.



"I just wanted to start doing something different. Because you always see people doing the exact same thing over and over again and it gets old at times."

Sunkanmi Adedoyin is one of the people who has been fortunate to uncover one of Thomas' hidden caches.

"I was like, 'wow, this guy actually hid $250,'" he said.

"I remember I made a TikTok too, I was so excited."

Thomas has also teamed up with Anatolia KW, a non-profit organization that helps at-risk youth through education.

"Both of our missions correlate because we're looking toward the future of our community and our city," said CEO Ozgur Erkul.

Thomas said he will continue to use TikTok to reach and help people as long as he's able to keep making a meaningful impact.

[BigGlen]

It Happened on MARCH 10



0241 BC - The Roman fleet sank 50 Carthaginian ships in the Battle of Aegusa.

1496 - Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere when he left Hispaniola for Spain.

1629 - England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.

1656 - In the American colony of Virginia, suffrage was extended to all free men regardless of their religion.

1785 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France. He succeeded Benjamin Franklin.

1792 - John Stone patented the pile driver.

1804 - The formal ceremonies transferring the Louisiana Purchase from France to the U.S. took place in St. Louis.

1806 - The Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrendered to the British.

1814 - In France, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by a combined Allied Army at the battle of Laon.

1848 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war with Mexico.

1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.

1862 - The U.S. government issues paper money for the first time.

1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the U.S. Civil War.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

1880 - The Salvation Army arrived in the U.S. from England.

1893 - New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.

1894 - New York Gov. Roswell P. Flower signed the nation's first dog-licensing law.

1902 - The Boers of South Africa scored their last victory over the British, when they captured British General Methuen and 200 men.

1902 - Tochangri, Turkey, was entirely wiped out by an earthquake.

1902 - U.S. Attorney General Philander Knox announced that a suit was being brought against Morgan and Harriman's Northern Securities Company. The suit was enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Northern Securities loss in court was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 14, 1904.

1903 - Harry C. Gammeter patented the multigraph duplicating machine.

1903 - In New York's harbor, the disease-stricken ship Karmania was quarantined with six dead from cholera.

1906 - In France, 1,200 miners were buried in an explosion at Courrieres.

1909 - Britain extracted territorial concessions from Siam and Malaya.

1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.

1912 - China became a republic after the overthrow of the Manchu Ch'ing Dynasty.

1913 - William Knox rolled the first perfect 300 game in tournament competition.

1924 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.

1927 - Prussia lifted its Nazi ban allowing Adolf Hitler to speak in public.

1933 - Nevada became the first U.S. state to regulate drugs.

1940 - W2XBS-TV in New York City aired the first televised opera as it presented scenes from "I Pagliacci".

1941 - The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would begin wearing batting helmets during the 1941 season.

1941 - Vichy France threatened to use its navy unless Britain allowed food to reach France.

1944 - The Irish refused to oust all Axis envoys and denied the accusation of spying on Allied troops.

1945 - American B-29 bombers attacked Tokyo, Japan, 100,000 were killed.

1947 - The Big Four met in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany.

1947 - Poland and Czechoslovakia signed a 20-year mutual aid pact.

1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.

1953 - North Korean gunners at Wonsan fired upon the USS Missouri. The ship responded by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position.

1955 - The last broadcast of "The Silver Eagle" was heard on radio.

1956 - Julie Andrews at the age of 23 made her TV debut in "High Tor" with Bing Crosby and Nancy Olson.

1959 - "Sweet Bird of Youth", a play by Tennessee Williams, opened in New York City.

1965 - Walter Matthau and Art Carney opened in "The Odd Couple". It later became a hit on television.

1966 - The North Vietnamese captured a Green Beret camp at Ashau Valley.

1966 - France withdrew from NATO's military command to protest U.S. dominance of the alliance and asked NATO to move its headquarters from Paris.

1969 - James Earl Ray pled guilty in Memphis, TN, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated the guilty plea and maintained his innocence until his death in April of 1998.

1971 - The U.S. Senate approved an amendment to lower the voting age to 18.

1975 - The North Vietnamese Army attacked the South Vietnamese town of Ban Me Thout.

1980 - Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, lent his support to the militants holding American hostages in Tehran.

1981 - The U.S. Postal Service announced an increase in first class postage from 15 to 18 cents.

1982 - The U.S. banned Libyan oil imports due to their continued support of terrorism.

1986 - The Wrigley Company, of Chicago, raised the price of its seven-stick pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum from a quarter to 30 cents.

1987 - The Vatican condemned surrogate parenting as well as test-tube and artificial insemination.

1990 - Haitian President Prosper Avril was ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.

1991 - "Phase Echo" began. It was the operation to withdraw 540,000 U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf region.

1994 - White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.

1995 - U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Yasser Arafat that he must do more to curb Palestinian terrorists.

1998 - U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf began receiving the first vaccinations against anthrax.

2002 - The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress in January that it was making contingency plans for the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that threaten the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, including Iraq and North Korea.

2003 - North Korea test-fired a short-range missile. The event was one of several in a patter of unusual military maneuvers.

[hija]

Man sits in bean dip for 24 hours to promote California restaurant



March 10 (UPI) -- A California stuntman spent 24 hours sitting in a pool of bean dip to promote a Los Angeles-area restaurant that has suffered losses from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hunter Ray Barker said he climbed into the wading pool filled with bean dip outside Los Toros Mexican Restaurant in Chatsworth at 3 p.m. Monday because he wanted to support the restaurant, which he described as one of his favorites for years.

Baker's 24-hour tenure in the pool coincided with a block party at the eatery, which featured the stuntman receiving a tattoo of the restaurant's logo while sitting in the dip.

"Obviously, a stunt like this is ridiculous -- it's absurd, it's wild, but as with any stunt, I'm always in favor of something that edges on the side of absurdity if it can celebrate and at least make a couple of people laugh," Barker told Patch before climbing into the bean dip.

"If we can get more attention and turn a few more people into lifelong customers, that's what I love about it, too."

iPhone dropped while river rafting washes up eight months later



A teenager who lost his iPhone while white water rafting in British Columbia was reunited with the device when it washed up on an island eight months later.

Patti Bacchus said she frequently combs the beach in front of her Mayne Island home for trash, and on one recent morning she found a Frisbee, a $20 bill and an iPhone 7 in a watertight case.

Bacchus recounted on Twitter how she opened the case, charged the phone and her husband, Lee, correctly guessed the passcode: 1-2-3-4-5-6.

Bacchus found a contact for "Mom" and texted the number, discovering the phone belonged to the woman's son, Hunter Hoffman, 16.

Hoffman said he lost his phone when his raft overturned on the Coquitlam River in July. The phone apparently spent eight months in the water, making its way to Piggot Bay and ending up on the beach.

"It's bizarre how it traveled so far, and there's not even damage to the phone," Hoffman's mother, Angela, told the Times-Colonist newspaper.

Bacchus said solving the mystery was a fun diversion from the monotony of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I'm keeping the $20 and the Frisbee, and I'll keep picking up garbage off the beach. I think the moral of the story is go clean up a beach and buy a good case for your phone," she said.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/03/10 ... 615410423/

[goldie0608]

He got lots of help after his wheelchair was stolen. Now he wants to pay that kindness forward.




HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Raymond Tavita was born with spina bifida. It helped when Shriners’ surgeons corrected his foot deformity.

“I got surgery to make sure that the foot itself stayed planted. Now there’s nails in my foot that keep my toes and my feet flat,” he said.

It made it easier to walk short distances but didn’t remove his reliance on a wheelchair. In 2017, he was shocked when someone stole his main source of mobility.

State Rep. John Mizuno shared his story and the public responded.

“A few weeks later we had over 25 donated wheelchairs, a couple electronic wheelchairs at that,” he said. Tavita got two of the donated wheelchairs. The others were given to people with physical disabilities, and it sparked an idea.

“I realized that it became a service that I could provide for people,” Tavita said.

Now he’s starting a non-profit called “The Ohana You Don’t See.”

He’s asking for people to donate wheelchairs they no longer need so he can get them to disabled people who can put them to use.

“I have a person that can repair these, so even if it’s broken we’re just asking for any type of wheelchair that we could get for the community, so we can go ahead and distribute it out,” he said.

With Mizuno’s help, Tavita is securing space where donated wheelchairs can be stored and repaired.

If you have a wheelchair to donate, call Mizun’s office at 586-6050.

“We’ll be happy to help with the donations, making sure there’s storage for those wheelchairs that are donated,” he said.

Tavita is starting with wheelchairs but he wants to help the physically disabled in other areas so they can feel what he felt when people rallied around him.

“It made me feel alive like I was being seen,” he said.

To learn more about Tavita’s wheelchair project, watch his live announcement Wednesday at 11 a.m. on his Facebook page. You can also email him at [email protected].

[johngriffen]

I sometimes get REALLY DEPRESSED reviewing the news these days.
It's always about a global pandemic threatening life as we know it,
protests around the world, stupid politicians, natural disasters,
or some other really bad story.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Welcome to The mobi weekly news magazine
IN OTHER NEWS
THURSDAY MARCH 11
What is it?
Here is your chance to become an "ACE REPORTER" for our weekly news magazine.
It is your job to fine weird, funny or "good feel" stories from around the world and share them with our readers in our weekly magazine

How do you play?
Just post a story that you have come across that made you smile, laugh, feel good...
BUT NOTHING DEPRESSING

EXAMPLE POST

​Naked sunbather chases wild boar through park after it steals his laptop bag

A naked sunbather was seen chasing wild boar through a park after it stole his laptop bag.
Amusing photographs from Germany show the man running after the animal to try and claim the plastic bag back.
But the cheeky boar and its two piglets appear to be too quick for the sunbather, who can't keep up with their speedy little trotters.
As the incident unfolds, groups of friends and family sat on the grass watch on and laugh.
Heads are seen turning in surprise and amusement in the hilarious photographs.
The incident happened at Teufelssee Lake - a bathing spot in the Grunwell Forest in Berlin, Germany.

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