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  https://www.upworthy.com/georgia-all-terrain-wheelchairs-at-state-parks Georgia USA, is making sure their parks and hiking trails are accessible to everyone. The Aimee Copeland Foundation and Georgia Department of Natural Resources have teamed up to provide a fleet of all-terrain wheelchairs in 11 of Georgia's state parks. The wheelchairs are free to use. The chairs are able to travel through mud, sand, snow and water.  The video link (in the above article) says; "Georgia Sate Parks are offering free all-terrain wheelchair rentals so people of all abilities can enjoy the great outdoors." Cory Lee is a wheelchair user and travel blogger who has covered accessible adventures throughout the world. but has never been able to explore his home town of Georgia until now, He says the chairs are life changing, giving people more independence through the parks. - What is the best thing about going to a park? - How might a visit to the park be different for a wheelchair user? - wh

  TikTok user gets free Starbucks for life - Upworthy Tik Tok user Jontay Black visited Starbucks at an Airport last month and ordered a Strawberry Lemonade. The barista was new to the role and was having trouble completing the order. Jontay said the drink was “nothing fancy,” but the barista was having a hard time getting the drink right. He says she basically kept messing up the order and keeping Jontay waiting. Some people might have complained as the new barista struggled, but Jontay kept calm and made supportive, encouraging remarks; “I was just being polite, like, it’s OK, everybody has bad days, because I’ve been having a bad day myself.” What Jontay didn’t know was that a Starbucks exec was watching the situation. When Jontay finally got his order, the exec approached him to say, “I’m an exec from Starbucks and I watched your experience from beginning to end, and you were so polite with our people that I’ve got something for you.” The exec handed Jontay a Starbucks gift c

  https://scoop.upworthy.com/girl-born-with-uncombable-hair-syndrome-embraces-fuzzy-mane-548646?fbclid=IwAR00mxh3UEoG3fIkkxYmeXSWkAL1Sz_8rv0UGrtGMbsloATGHvutG5NatEE Shilah Madison lives in Melbourne, Australia and is 11 years old. Shilah is inspiring thousands of people across the globe by embracing her difference. Shilah has different hair; it's called "uncombable hair syndrome" which means her hair cannot be combed flat, it feels dry and frizzy.  Ever since she was a baby, Shilah has faced comments about her hair from people in the street and in her school; "I get teased a lot and get called Fluffhead - it's not nice." "I personally like it now, but at the same time I hate it - especially when there's wind! Let's just say I can't see!" Shilah'a mother says she knew her baby was different when she was three months old; "Her brown baby hair had fallen out as it should but this weird fuzz started to come through and grow straigh

    https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/sandwell/west-bromwich/2023/01/05/bus-driver-top-of-the-pops-after-becoming-youtube-hit/?fbclid=IwAR1Apldp8qksf0F24jy5JMgUF2Q7Zm2Jb2l6chrJGy0IpvCgD5WeoeS5JqQ Ranjit Singh works for National Express in West Bromwich. Ranjit loves his job and recently he made a video to show friends and family living in India what he does and who he works with. The video has been viewed thousands of time and is being praised by other bus drivers. You can watch the video in the link above. Ranjit says, "I have worked at National Express for 13 years and take great pride in what I do. There's a real team spirit and I wanted to do something that celebrated the many different communities that we have at our West Bromwich depo and how we all work together as one team." In the song, Ranjit sings in Punjabi and there are English subtitles. Watch the video and ask the children which lines are about No Outsiders: "From different countries broth