{"id":30868,"date":"2022-08-17T05:01:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T09:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=30868"},"modified":"2022-08-17T05:01:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T09:01:53","slug":"helping-people-and-police-help-a-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/08\/helping-people-and-police-help-a-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Helping People&#8221; And Police Help A Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A woman who says she\u2019s \u201caddicted to helping people\u201d won more than $145 million (\u00a3115 million) million in the lottery, allowing her to help a LOT of people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frances Connelly has already given away $74 million (\u00a360 million) with her husband, \u201cPatty\u201d Patrick, who actually bought the winning ticket. 55-year-old Frances has been helping people since childhood, working as a St. John\u2019s Ambulance volunteer, and she set up an AIDS helpline while a student in Belfast. She also runs several community groups, so winning the EuroMillions 2019 jackpot gave her all kinds of ideas on how to help people. She used some money to immediately set up 2 charities, and she has also donated about $13.5 million (\u00a311 million) directly to other charities. The couple also bought a new house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A couple got\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/boston-harbor-patrol-comes-rescue-stranded-groom-ahead-wedding-ceremony\/UINO6RO5F5ENXGH2S6N35MK45U\/\"><b>married on an island<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0near Boston on Saturday, but it almost didn&#8217;t happen.\u00a0 The bride was already at the venue, but the groom and groomsmen were waiting for the last ferry across when it broke down.\u00a0 So a cop helped them out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An officer with the Boston Harbor Patrol used his boat to take them all across.\u00a0 It turned out the DJ, florist, and wedding photographer all needed a ride too, so they hopped on as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 11:29:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/08\/helping-people-and-police-help-a-marriage\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30869,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions\/30869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}