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Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!
I'm Ryan Drillsma…
And I'm Nancy Sun.
In today's news:
A man gets a surprise birthday celebration, wildfires take over some European countries, and kids show Arthur is coming to an end.
All that and more, coming up next.
市民幫無家可歸的阿公慶祝生日 Citizens Help Celebrate Man without Home's Birthday
How do you usually celebrate your birthday?
你通常如何慶祝生日？
Some people have a party and others get a cake.
Most like to spend time with friends or family.
But unfortunately (很不幸) some people don't have the opportunity to do this.
Mr. Chiu, an 82-year-old man in Taichung is one of these people.
Mr. Chiu doesn't have a house.
And instead, he lives in his truck in the street.
And he has to park his truck under bridges or in parking lots.
He never married and does not have children, so he has no family to take care of him.
Mr. Chiu usually washes in public bathrooms.
In August, a group of people that help the elderly called the Huashan Social Welfare Foundation decided to help out Mr. Chiu.
His birthday is the day before Father's Day, August 7th.
So the group decided to help him celebrate both.
The foundation brought him pig knuckle and rice noodles to eat, and a birthday cake to celebrate.
Local elementary school children wrote Mr. Chiu Father's Day cards, which the foundation took to him.
Mr Chiu was very touched (很感動) by what happened.
He said he hadn't eaten cake or pig knuckle with rice noodles for over 20 years.
And he said he had never celebrated Father's Day.
He thanked the Huashan Social Welfare Foundation for bringing him happiness during hard times.
It shows that small actions can bring happiness to others around you.
82歲的阿公邱先生以卡車為家，租不到房子也沒有存錢。他沒有結婚也沒有小孩，所以沒有家人可照顧他。華山基金會送給他豬腳麵線跟蛋糕，慶祝他的生日跟父親節，他又開心又感動。這個故事代表小動作可以給別人帶來大幸福。
野火侵襲部分歐洲國家 European Countries Consumed by Wildfires
It's been a very hot summer around the world.
今年夏天，全球都非常熱。
And this May was the hottest May every in Turkey (土耳其).
The hot weather has caused fires in many places.
And Turkey and its neighbor Greece (希臘) have seen some of the biggest wild fires (野火) ever recorded in the two countries.
Wildfires happen every year in forests that have high temperatures.
They can be caused by lightning (閃電) or by people setting them off by accident.
But hot, dry weather helps them spread (蔓延) quickly and dangerously.
And climate change (氣候變化) is causing temperatures to get higher in many places every year.
Greece's prime minister described the country's wildfires as "nightmarish" (跟惡夢一樣) in August.
In the first 10 days of that month, wildfires burnt 140 thousand acres of land in Greece.
That's almost the size of 80 thousand soccer fields.
Thousands of people had to leave their homes, and over a thousand firefighters were sent to try and stop the fires.
People on one island called Evia had to leave by boat and watch their homes burn down.
Turkey's president also said his country is experiencing the worst wildfires ever.
Fires there burned over 1,500 square kilometers in July.
And wildfires have been bad this year in the U.S. too.
We need to slow down climate change if we have any hope of stopping these fires causing so much damage.
希臘跟土耳其今年夏天遭受野火侵襲，很多希臘人坐船逃離燒毀的家鄉. 想要預防野火災難，就必須減緩氣候變遷造成的地球暖化。
亞瑟小子卡通明年結束 Arthur Cartoon Ending Soon
A long-running children's television show is coming to an end.
The cartoon Arthur will stop airing in 2022.
The US Public Broadcasting Service has decided (決定) to stop producing the show after the current season.
The 25th season will be its last.
過了25年，美國公視播的亞瑟小子卡通明年要結束。
Producers of the show say they don't know why the show is being canceled.
They say they could have continued making the cartoon series for many years to come.
At 25 seasons, Arthur is the longest-running children's animated (動畫) series in U.S. history.
It is also the second-longest animation, behind only The Simpsons.
亞瑟小子是美國最長壽的兒童卡通節目。
So, in today's News Bites:
Most like to spend time with friends or family for their birthday.
Mr. Chiu doesn't have a house or family to celebrate with.
So the Huashan Social Welfare Foundation brought him pig knuckle and rice noodles to eat, and a birthday cake to celebrate.
Mr Chiu was very touched by what happened.
And,
Turkey and Greece have seen some of the biggest wild fires ever recorded in the two countries.
People on one island called Evia had to leave by boat and watch their homes burn down.
We need to slow down climate change if we have any hope of stopping these fires causing so much damage.
And,
A long-running children's television show is coming to an end.
The cartoon Arthur will stop airing in 2022.
And that's today's episode of News Bites!