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A Little Bit of Awesome: 8/11/2020 Edition

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Doug Jean

An 86-year-old Rudy Armstrong from North Carolina had a stroke on his houseboat last week and couldn’t get to his phone. So he told his CHIHUAHUA Boo-Boo to get help . . . and she did. She ran off and got the dockmaster who called 911. Check out their full story RIGHT HERE.

A couple in Savannah, Georgia who’ve been married 79 years both just celebrated their 100th birthday. Billy and Nellie Jones were born four days apart in 1920, and they’ve lived in the same house since 1958. His birthday was Friday, and hers is today. So over the weekend, their whole neighborhood came out for a drive-by birthday party. Check out their full story RIGHT HERE.

A five-year-old boy in El Paso has been bringing COVID-19 care packages to essential workers who live in his neighborhood. His mom helps put them together with things like hand sanitizer and Lysol. Then he delivers them on his Power Wheel. Full story RIGHT HERE.

Here’s what happened when a guy in a monkey costume who was making monkey sounds . . . got interrupted by his roommate.

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