It wasn’t all bad
■■When police in Lebanon, N.H., responded to a report of a German shepherd on a snow-covered highway, they thought it was a stray.Then, the dog ran away from them and led them into Vermont, where it stopped near a broken guardrail and its owner’s wrecked pickup truck. “It quickly became apparent thatTinsley led [police] to the crash site and injured occupants,” the New Hampshire State Police wrote on Facebook.The truck’s two occupants were hypothermic and seriously injured and were transported to the hospital.Tinsley, the heroic pup, was not injured in the crash.
■■Nadia Popovici was at a hockey game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Seattle Kraken when she spotted a small mole on the neck of Brian Hamilton, an assistant equipment manager for the Canucks. Popovici, who had volunteered at hospitals, knew it could be cancerous. She drew a message on her phone and placed it against the plexiglass, urging an initially befuddled Hamilton to see a doctor. A biopsy showed the mole was indeed cancerous. Hamilton said that the doctor told him that if he ignored the mole for another four or five years, he’d be dead. Popovici “took me out of a slow fire,” Hamilton said.
■■Brothers Stephen and Matthew Coleman, 10 and 7, love visiting the sea turtles at Baltimore’s National Aquarium. When they heard of Kai—a 5-year-old green sea turtle who suffered severe damage to her shell after being hit by a boat— they quickly started raising money to get her a prosthetic shell.They decided to hold a 5K race to raise money for Kai, who still had problems diving and searching for food.The brothers raised $2,000 and donated it to the aquarium’s rehabilitation center. “I just did it for the turtles,” Stephen said.