Today’s Good News 11-1-24

Today’s Good News 11-1-24

This is good news if you’re traveling for the holidays and your flight gets canceled.  A new law went into effect this week that requires airlines to issue actual refunds.  If your flight gets canceled or significantly delayed, they have to refund your money if that’s what you want.  They can’t just do vouchers anymore………….. The Chicago Marathon was last month, and a video of a late-finisher is going viral.  Jeanette Young took just over 10 hours to do it but never quit. When she got to the finish line, everything had been removed and no one was there – except her friends and family who made their own finish line.  Her mom put a belt on the ground to mark the end, so she’d know, and they cheered for her when she crossed.  She did it to raise money for the American Heart Association, and to honor an organ donor named Stephen who gave her dad a new heart in 2019…………..and finally……………. 

If you’ve got a ton of leftover Halloween candy, here’s a way to get rid of it that won’t make you gain weight:  A program called Cash for Candy will pay $10 a pound for it, and send it to an organization called Friends of the Troops. The candy will then be distributed to service members, veterans, and families, both domestic and abroad. You can donate up to 10lbs, but you do have to pay shipping.  

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