Inspiring News
From the Good News Network
Sometimes the news can show the darker side of local and world events. But there is so much more! We found the Good News Network online and find their writing and focus to align well with our virtues and beliefs. We have included some excerpts below borrowed from their site. The link above with direct you to their site for further information and to subscribe directly.
Grandad Wins Gold in Arm Wrestling After Taking up Sport 3 Years Ago and Nearly Dying of Covid
A British grandad has become one of the world’s top arm-wrestlers after taking up the sport just three years ago. Mark Waldon discovered professional arm wrestling during lockdown but has now captured the gold medal at the European Championships representing Great...
A Paralyzed Man Walks Again Using Device that Connects His Thoughts to His Spinal Cord
It’s long been supposed that implants could connect prosthetics to the brain in a way that stimulates nervous system commands with electrical signals. Now, this idea is closer than ever to realization in a meaningful way, as one man paralyzed from the hips down is...
$25 Million Donation Launches Largest Coral Restoration Project in Hawaii to Renew 120 Miles of Reef
A collaborative effort of scientists and Hawaiian culture-keepers is preparing to undertake the largest restoration of coral reefs in the island chain’s history. While the scientists work to propagate and study the corals below, a cultural organization called the...
103-year-old Mainer Woman ‘Lobster Lady’ Celebrates Birthday Ahead of Her 95th Lobster Season
Virginia Oliver has already renewed her lobster fishing license for the 2023 season. Unlike other lobstermen however, for this Mainer it’s an almost century-long ritual. That’s because Virginia is the state’s oldest lobster fisherman—at 103 years old, an anniversary...
Artist Transforms Drab City Streets Painting 130 Homes–Home Values Increased Too (LOOK)
A year ago, we introduced you to an artist who began transforming an old neighborhood by painting the drab homes with vividly cheerful colors—and now she’s unveiled her latest street of 63 “rainbow homes”. Tash Frootko has been painting houses in Gloucester since...
Newly Discovered Rock Art Panels Depict How Ancient Ancestors Envisioned Creation and Adapted to Change
Australia’s vast wildernesses are famous for many things, but rock art, specifically one of the largest concentrations of rock art known in the world, isn’t typically one of them. West Arnhem Land in the Queensland Peninsula hosts an incredible painted record of Man’s...
After 8th Grader Walked to Graduation, A Missouri University and NFL Star Team Up to Give Him a Ride to College
A Missouri middle schooler was so determined to make it to his graduation, he ended up walking 6 miles. Losing out on an opportunity for a ride there, 8th-grader Xavier Jones asked his friend and brother to walk along with him, remembering something a mentor at...
Memories Came Flooding Back When Dementia Patient Gets to Relive his Career in a 1960s Ambulance and Uniform
A 98-year-old dementia patient and veteran of World War II got to relive his career by riding in a retro ambulance and donning the old uniform—which opened the floodgates of precious memories. Albert Gibbs, who worked on ambulances in London for a quarter-century, was...
Man Lands Dream Job After Skydiving with Sign Asking for Work–New Employer Offers a Job the Same Way
In the ultimate pump-up story, a daredevil job seeker landed a new position after jumping out of a plane with a cardboard sign asking for work. Chris Serrano, a creative director living in Florida, filmed himself skydiving whilst holding a piece of cardboard reading...
