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.
Musician Infuses Dad’s Ashes into His Guitar Fretboard- to Be with Him at Future Gigs
Over the years, GNN has reported on multiple creative ways to infuse the ashes of cremated loved one into meaningful objects, whether a tattoo, a vinyl record, or an elegant stone. Now, English media have reported on a man whose inlaid his father’s ashes into the...
Airport Workers Save the Day After Wife’s Diamond Goes Missing at Baggage Claim
‘Caring’ is a word that many Americans wouldn’t choose if asked to describe commercial aviation, but a story recently touched down from Pittsburgh International Airport of humanity and kindness that left a woman’s jaw suspended in disbelief. April Schmitt had just...
Tiny Town’s Tradition Sees its Graduating Class Sent off with a Free Scholarship Every Year
For the last 30 years a tiny Minnesota town has played a huge role in the lives of its graduating students. Despite the population of Swanville sitting at a comfortable 328, what is essentially one big family comes together every year to send off their seniors with a...
New Astronaut Camp for Girls Named After Star Trek Actress Nichelle Nichols, Honored as Role Model
Alabama will be the site of a new training camp for the next generation of female astronauts—funded and named in honor of one of the profession’s great pioneers. Okay, maybe next exactly, because the Nichelle Nichols Space Camp honors someone who pioneered an idea...
An Ottawa Runner Posted Online Asking ‘Did you save my life?’ Then He Got an Answer
From Ottawa comes the story of a runner who woke up in the hospital with a burning question: who saved his life? Tommy Chan went for a five kilometer run on May 20th, but he doesn’t remember anything several days either side of that. All he knows is what the doctors...
Viral Video Sparks $20,000 in Donations for Ice Cream Vendor Who Walks Miles in the Florida Heat
For anyone who suggests that social media has been a net-negative for society, tell them to spend 3 hours reading GoFundMe stories. GNN has reported on literally dozens of these internet crowdfunding efforts that have changed people’s lives, and the latest one comes...
Italian ‘Ghost Town’ Rescued by Instagramable Street Art Which Attracts Thousands
A southern Italian hamlet referred to as a ghost town is now attracting thousands of tourists by commissioning artists to paint more than 140 murals on the sites of shops and homes. It seems fitting that the birthplace of so many of the world’s great artists should...
Regaining Hands After 17 Years, Swiss Man Gets Life-Changing Double Transplant
When 29-year-old Luka Kriszanac arrived back at University of Penn. Medicine and got to see his surgery team, it was all smiles and handshakes. That’s more remarkable than it sounds, since the surgery he underwent was a “vascularized composite allotransplantation,” or...
Student Lifts University President and Spins him Around at Graduation Ceremony
A video captured the moment last month when a graduating student lifted the university president clear off the ground and spun him around during his formal graduation ceremony. As he received his diploma in Guangdong, China, the student shook the president’s hand,...
