Weird
Posted in Goofy
Comments Off on Weird
Pregnancy boom at Gloucester High
As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies—more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there’s been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into the matter as early as October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By May, several students had returned multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and on hearing the results, “some girls seemed more upset when they weren’t pregnant than when they were,” Sullivan says. All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Then the story got worse. “We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy,” the principal says, shaking his head.
Posted in Interesting
1 Comment
$20 for his honesty
What would you do if you found $108,000? A 17-year-old boy from Cedar City was put in this exact situation. He didn’t just find money, he found himself in a moral dilemma.
Jared Gray works as a part-time janitor at Southern Utah University. Weeks ago, he came across a bank deposit bag, lying on the ground at the University. Jared looked around, but no one could be seen.
He could easily have taken the money and no one would have ever known.
“That definitely went through my mind,†said Jared. “I knew what I had to do. I figured I should return the money.â€
Jared called his uncle who works at the college. His uncle called a police officer and later, every last dollar was returned.
“It just wouldn’t have felt right to take it,†said Jared.
An S.U.U. spokesperson said that Jared’s honesty is more than they’d expect from a 17-year-old.
“It’s a huge thing for someone to turn in $108,000 that they find laying around,†said Jennifer Burt.
But Jared didn’t even think twice.
“I’d return it again, without a problem,†Jared said.
Jared said that the campus police gave him $20 for his honesty and a campus cashier made him cookies.
Posted in Interesting
Comments Off on $20 for his honesty
Dallas Area U2 Eucharist service
The Uptown Church is inviting you to an interactive worship service that will leave you feeling great and uplifted. Join them for a Sunday evening service starting at 7pm in the Main Church for a U2 Eucharist with the Uptown Worship Band. The U2 Eucharist is an authentic Eucharist service using the music and lyrics of U2. The first U2 Eucharist was a huge success and they are accepting record capacity crowds. The 11:15 am service will be a traditional spoken service.
U2 EUCHARIST
Uptown @ Incarnation
3966 McKinney Ave.
Sunday, June 22, 7:00PM