Dog saves woman from river

A dog saved a drowning woman’s life by dragging her from a fast flowing river.

Plucky labrador retriever Penny was hailed a heroine after she swam into the Elwy and pulled the unconscious woman to shore in St Asaph.

Her owner Brenda Owen, 58, of nearby Ashley Court, had taken her pet for a walk along the river bank on Thursday lunchtime when they spotted a figure floating in the water.

Brenda, a custody officer with North Wales Police, said: “I’d gone for a quick walk with Penny.

“It’s a lovely walk and it was absolutely beautiful. Then I spotted a wheelchair on the riverbank – at first I couldn’t imagine what had happened.

“I saw another man walking with a dog and asked him if he knew what had happened and then we saw the woman in the water.

“I shouted: “Are you all right love?”

When there was no answer, Brenda shouted: “Fetch! fetch!” and instinctively Penny jumped into the torrent.

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Two Weeks Notice

I’m a pretty loyal kind of guy.  In fact, I’ve been working at the same place right out of college for almost nine years.  It’s been a fantastic experience, and I’ve been fortunate enough to be promoted numerous times, but today I turned in my two weeks notice.  I have to admit, it was a weird feeling because this is the first time I actually turned in an actual resignation letter.  All my other jobs were of the part-time variety where a letter was simply not needed.  My manager was pretty surprised, and even came back with a counter-offer later in the day.  But that counter-offer couldn’t compete with the 40% increase in salary – which tells you how much my current company under pays me.  The counter-offer gave me mixed feelings.  It made me feel good they wanted to do something to keep me and shows they value my work, but at the same time it made me feel that it took a resignation letter to get this attention and monetary compensation.

After two weeks I’ll be taking off on a new adventure working for peanuts at a place I’m sure I will LUV.  It’s my first professional job change, so I’m of course a little nervous, but I think that’s part of the fun.

WifeGeeding is pretty happy, and it’s time to celebrate with a good steak dinner.  We’ve been to Bob’s, Del Frisco’s, III Forks, and Ruth’s Chris.  If you have a good Dallas steak house suggestion, please let me know.

 

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