Inspirational Friday

A car goes off the road and into a icy river. Three children were trapped when the car that their father was driving skidded off the road. They were on their way to a ski resort when Rodger Andersen lost control of the car and he and his two children and niece plunged into the river. He was panicked and was able to free himself, but not his children or niece. He began to scream for help that the children were trapped and a passerby Chris Willden a former police officer and his father jumped into waste deep water. They couldn't get the doors opened so he shot the window open. One of the girls was trapped by her seat belt, but still conscious while the other two were unconscious and the car was upside down. Seven other people joined the rescue and flipped the car over. They got the children out and the boy was not breathing, but with CPR he was revived. They were taken to the hospital where they stayed for two days and were released.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Children-rescued-from-icy-Utah-river-are-back-home-2437054.php

A Ohio woman finds $12,000 and returns it to its owner. A 63-year-old woman who wants to stay anonymous found a tan cloth bag containing $12,000 while walking with her husband on Wednesday night. Police were able to track the bag to a couple who lives in Spring Township and they were planning to buy a house out of state. The anonymous woman stated that "her father was a minister and he always told her to do the right thing."

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/akron_canton_news/akron-couple-return-12000-found-in-street

A dog  survives 21 hours in a suitcase. Tootsie a dachsund loves to cuddle in suitcases underneath the clothes. The owner of Tootsie "Ida Rescan" stated that "her daughter was visiting during the holidays and was traveling back to North Carolina and that is when Tootsie went missing." When her daughter left Rescan began to look for Tootsie and became franick that the dog got out in sub-zero temperatures in Chicago. They even called the police looking for Tootsie. Rescan said "she couldn't bare the thought that  her little dog was frozen on top of a snowbank." Her husband "Ed" suggested that maybe Tootsie climbed into their daughter's suitcases. Her daughter and husband, and their three children drove straight through to their home (850 miles). Rescan kept calling the North Carolina home and wanted to catch her daughter as soon as she entered her house. When her daughter arrived it was raining and she told her husband to leave the luggage in the car. The mother reached the daughter on the phone and said that Tootsie may be in their suitcase and the daughter was frightened because she had to push down on the suitcases because they were over packed  in order to close it. They began frantically opening the suitcases and Tootsie popped up as if nothing was wrong. They took Tootsie to the vet and Tootsie is fine and the vet could not explain how Tootsie survived.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19810112&id=A4EcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fVIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6644,1054481