(Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle)
SAN FRANCISCO — Keenia Williams saw the big rig tip over and burst into flames in her rearview mirror. Other drivers speeding south on Highway 101 in San Francisco early Wednesday saw the same thing. Williams, though, was the only one to stop.
“I just see the (driver of the truck) and oh, my God, I hop out, run, see the guy just sitting there,” Williams said. “He’s like standing between the fire. He passes out. And now I am like, ‘Oh, my God, oh, my God.’ ”
Will Kane tells the story, which has drawn hundreds of comments from readers moved by Williams’ act, in the San Francisco Chronicle.
by Rene Bruemmer
The Montreal Gazette
Natasha Fillion, The Gazette
The 64-year-old grandfather makes a good living renting tents and selling swimming pool covers, yet he’s chosen to invest $270,000 of his own money, taking out a second mortgage on his beautiful but modest home on the shores of the Milles Îles River in Rosemere, to create a house he says will bring dignity to Haitians.
“Our time on this world is short,” Monette said in a recent interview. “I want to bring houses to the people.”
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by Christy Goodman
Washington Post
Courtesy Flying Monkeys
They are the team of Girl Scout Cadettes from troops 150 and 955 who call themselves the Flying Monkeys, and they were the first-place winners of the Global Innovation Award. They received $20,000 toward their pending patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria at an awards ceremony June 16.
“I can draw with my other hand,” was the first thing Danielle said to her mom, Dale Fairchild, when the family received the prototype for the “BOB-1” device.
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Toby Talbot / AP
Dog registrar, historian, justice of the peace, town meeting organizer: For nearly 48 years, Town Clerk Eva Morse has been “town mother” in this rural Vermont town.
Now, the sprightly 72-year-old is down to her last official minutes.
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