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.
Scientists Identify a New Manta Ray Species, Just the Third Known in the World
Usually when scientists announce the discovery of a new species, it’s some small brown frog, a gnarly spider in a rainforest you’ll never visit, or a new sea-something. But Earth still has some curveballs to throw at us—like a new species of manta ray, just the third...
Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight Gifts Record $2 Billion to US University for Their Cancer Center
Co-Founder of Nike Phil Knight has opened his bank account and his heart in order to set a record for the largest charitable gift ever handed to an American university. $2 billion was given to a cancer institute bearing his name at the Oregon Health & Science...
Teenage Workers Save Restaurant as Owner Spends Months in Hospital
A family-owned restaurant was saved by a gaggle of teenagers after the owner’s wife fell into a coma. From Hudson, Minnesota comes the story of the team at the heart of Urban Olive & Vine, and their dedication to a woman they’d come to know and love, Carol...
A Jamaican Student Invented a Self-Disinfecting Door Handle for Hospitals: ‘Design that fits reality’
A Jamaican university student has invented a self-cleaning door handle that’s been described as a “life-saving design that fits” the reality of the Caribbean. Using ultraviolet light, similar to various automatic cleaning devices invented and deployed during the...
She Made History as Major League Baseball’s First Female Umpire–Walking on The Field to Huge Cheers
After 30 years and 1,200 games, the phone call that Jen Pawol was waiting for finally arrived earlier this week. You’re going to the big leagues—and you’re going to make history. Just like that, Pawol became the first female umpire in Major League Baseball history on...
Hospital Tailors Kidney Transplant to Protect Teen Baseball Player’s Swing–Putting it on Other Side of his Body
It was a parent’s worst nightmare, but doctors showed extra compassion for the patient who had dreams of being a baseball player when he grows up. Five-year-old Sam Heintz was in the intensive care unit of Michigan’s Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital with failing...
Canadian Mountie Sits Down With a Senior–And The Conversation Saved His Life
A family member called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia requesting a visit to the home of their loved one to check on his well-being—and the officer ultimately ended up saving the senior’s life. In April, the Salt Spring Island Mounties received...
In Belize, Maya Descendants Are Reviving an Ancient, Sacred Ballgame
One of the first things we learn about the Maya is that they played a curious ball and court game, and that these courts can be found in all the major Mayan archaeological sites. From the former Maya stronghold of Belize comes the story of the slow revival of this...
Intuition and a Devoted Dog Guided a Man to An Unconscious Couple Whose Lives He Saved
A Pittsburgher and a mysterious dog recently teamed up to save two unconscious individuals in a story that has earned the pair thousands of plaudits. Gary Thynes shared both on Facebook and to local news station WTAE that he was playing with his own dog in a park when...
