Baseball team rescues teenage girl

Baseball team rescues teenage girl

A high school baseball team in Sacramento was practicing last week when they heard desperate cries for help. A teenage girl had been pinned underneath a car in the Valley High School parking lot. Without prompting, the 30-strong team quickly lifted the four-door sedan off the injured girl, allowing coaches Troy Quirillo and Brett Sawyer to pull her to safety. The girl was treated for minor injuries in the hospital and released. “The baseball players became men,” said Sawyer. “Their courage in a traumatic situation was truly remarkable. I couldn’t be more proud.”

Guzzling beer for charity

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Beer lovers in Portland, Ore., can now drink in aid of a good cause at one of the nation’s first nonprofit pubs. Starting this week, patrons of the Oregon Public House (motto: “Have a pint, change the world”) can direct the proceeds from their beers—amounting to about $1 per pint—to support any one of eight charities. Public-spirited local Ryan Saari worked for three years to raise money and gather volunteers to renovate and staff the pub, which he estimates will yield about $10,000 a month to the charities. Similar ventures are up and running in Houston and Washington, D.C.

Cop rewards Phoenix teen with bicycle

When Phoenix police officer Natalie Simonick saw 18-year-old Christian Felix out after dark in March, she suspected he was violating curfew. But Felix told her he was walking six miles home from his job at McDonald’s, as he had missed the bus and didn’t own a bicycle. Simonick was so impressed with the teen’s work ethic that she decided to buy him a bicycle. Her squad members taught him to ride it, and traffic cops even donated a helmet. Felix said the officers’ kindness was a welcome surprise. “These days, you don’t see anything like that,” he said.