Good News Notes: “Later this month, Jan Agee will leave her Davis home, get on a plane, and fly 6,000 miles to Germany just to attend an opera. And she isn’t even an opera fan. But she is a fan of this one. “Grete Minde” is a three-act opera composed by her grandfather, Eugen Engel,…
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Crisis averted after woman finds thousands of plastic balls in Lake Tahoe
Good News Notes: “An environmental crisis was narrowly averted after a woman found thousands of tiny polystyrene balls covering a beach on Tahoe’s north shore. Alison Toy, the education program manager for UC Davis’ Tahoe Environmental Research Center, was on a walk on Moon Dune beach when she came across the little white balls coating…
Diver Finds Camera In Ocean, Tracks Down Family Who Lost It 8 Years Earlier
Good News Notes: “Eight years ago, on a family vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Gwen Sayian lost her camera when it slipped off her kayak in 12 feet of water. The family photos were gone. Fast forward eight years to this week when Catherine Jackson and her husband Glen were scuba diving near Edgartown. Glen found…
When this artist honored Princeton’s blue-collar workers, the university took notice
Good News Notes: “As he watched his mother create masterpieces on a blank canvas in their Detroit home, 4-year-old Mario Moore had the thought, “I want to be an artist.” With a crayon and sketchbook in hand, he, too, would draw. Today, almost 30 years later, Moore has followed his childhood passion to become a painter and…