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.
Restaurant Owner Shelves Easter Plans to Fulfill Dying Man’s Last Wish to Feed His Hospice Nurses
From New York comes the story of a restaurant owner who shelved his Easter plans to fulfill a dying man’s last wish. Jokingly described as looking like “a big, bad biker guy” by his brother, 67-year-old father of 3 Frank Ozimek had a last wish as he approached his...
Tree They Planted as Teen Sweethearts Suddenly Had Baby Offshoot Growing After She Got Pregnant
It’s a simple story of well-rooted love, nurtured year after year, blooming, and producing fruit—but the latest chapter has social media entranced. High school sweethearts Kelsey Dixon and her now-husband Wes Dixon planted a cherry tree together as teenagers in 2007...
In Memorium: First American to Climb Everest Dies at 97 After a Lifetime of Climbing with His Brother
America doffs its hat to one of its greatest modern outdoorsmen: the first among our countrymen to conquer the two highest peaks in the world: Mount Everest in 1963, and K2 in 1978. Jim Whittaker was born in Washington state on February 10th, 1929. His identical twin...
(UPDATE) Aging Pizza Delivery Driver Gets $100K Tip After Conscientious Effort Goes Viral
On the last day in March, GNN reported that the conscientious efforts of a 70-year-old delivery driver left an Idaho man so taken aback, he raised $24,000 on GoFundMe to reward the employee, who told him he was mere weeks away from retirement. Well the nation has...
Humanity’s Long-Awaited Return to Lunar Space Captured with Brilliant Photographs
Americans and Canadians been delighted with images of the Moon and Earth taken from onboard the Orion capsule as it took 4 astronauts into Lunar orbit for the first time since the Apollo program. Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1st,...
Autistic Bowler Achieves Dream With His First Perfect 300 Game And Joins the PBA as a Pro
On March 25, an autistic bowler who recently entered the Professional Bowlers Association achieved something he’s been dreaming about for years—his first-ever 300 game. For most casual bowlers, a sanctioned perfect game is rare. For Matt Sipes, it represented so much...
Young Boy with Cancer Delivers 124 Gorgeous Easter Baskets to Kids in Hospitals After Fundraising $2,000
Nathan Yuill was diagnosed as a child with stage-4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but the good news is that he’s two treatment courses away from what is anticipated to be a bell-ringing remission announcement. But before his time in Providence Children’s Hospital came to an...
Aging Delivery Driver Gets Huge Tip After Conscientious Effort Goes Viral via Ring Video
GNN recently reported on a crowdfunding campaign gone viral on behalf of an elderly DoorDash driver working far beyond his retirement to afford his wife’s expensive medication. Now along a similar vein, an Idaho man was left “blown away” when he learned that a nearly...
5 Friends Take Same Photo for Over 4 Decades: ‘We Vowed to Keep it Going No Matter What’ (LOOK)
Five friends from California have been taking the same photo while on vacation together since 1982. The 62-year-old pals—John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer-Cleary, Dallas Burney, John Molony and JD Dickson—all attended Santa Barbara High School when they were teens. After...
