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.
Teens Learn the Lost Arts of Ironing and Sewing at New Summer Camp Taught By Local Grandmas
In a sunny room in Fullerton, California, something magical is happening this summer: a group of high school girls is spending four weeks learning some new skills—not from YouTube, but from real grandmas. Every Tuesday and Thursday in July, the Golden Connections...
Ozzy Osbourne’s Final Concert with Black Sabbath Raised $190 Million for Charity
The Prince of Darkness made his official curtain call recently with a benefit concert for Parkinson’s research and children’s hospitals that raised a staggering $190 million. Featuring a star-studded lineup of heavy metal greats, and culminating in Black Sabbath’s...
Rare Wild Baby Horse Is Adopted by a Domestic Pony That Just Lost Her Own Foal
A story of resilience and maternal instinct comes now from Minnesota, where a foal belonging to Asia’s last remaining wild horse species is thriving thanks to an unexpected hero: a domesticated horse named Alice. Having lost her own offspring, Alice decided to put...
Paris Reopens Seine River to Public Swimming After Century-Long Ban and $2.3 Billion Cleanup
For the first time in over a century, Parisians are swimming in their own river again following a cleanup effort that ran over $1.5 billion. Currently open to 1,000 bathers daily in three different cordoned swimming locations for free, Parisians are flocking to enjoy...
Phillies Team Makes Hype Video That Wins Their Bat Boy Cancer Survivor a Trip to the All-Star Game
Bat boys often blend into the background, becoming bit players in the operations of a major league baseball game. But the Philadelphia Phillies recently gave their bat boy, Adam Crognale, the star treatment, creating a hype video that helped get him elected to this...
Largest Black Hole Merger Ever Observed Detected by LIGO–a Universe-Shaking Event
A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created something 225-times the size of our Sun. It’s the largest such event ever detected in the history of gravitational wave astronomy, and pushed...
Portable Coral Spawning Laboratory Shipped to the Maldives and Grows 10,000 Young Corals in Weeks
In the Maldives, a mobile coral spawning system has been trialed with scintillating success, as 10,000 juvenile corals were grown by local operators. It represents not only a major hope that island nations can abate the loss of coral reefs, but also that the spawning...
‘Love Conquers the Atlantic’–Newfoundland Couple’s Message in a Bottle Found in Ireland 13 Years Later
From the shores of Newfoundland to the shores of Ireland comes the story of two young lovers frozen in time within the blue glass of a wine bottle. Separated by 5 time zones, 1,800 miles, and 13 years, the humble message in a bottle proves once again to have a unique...
Pine Martens Breeding in Southwest England for the First Time in Over 100 Years – LOOK
Camera trap footage has conservationists celebrating what are probably the first pine martens born in southwest England in over 100 years. Their births follow a “pioneering” reintroduction project that sought to rebalance the predator-prey dynamics of a wild England...
