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.
High Schoolers and Seniors Build Unlikely Friendships Through Chair Volleyball
What started as a simple chair volleyball game at a senior living community in Belton, Texas, has grown into a meaningful intergenerational friendship. The sporty seniors, who proudly call themselves “The Hit Squad,” regularly host friendly chair volleyball matches...
Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers Atmospheric CO2
China’s multi-decade long, successful effort to plant a ring of trees around one of the world’s most hostile deserts has sprouted an unexpected benefit to humanity. Along with protecting the nation’s grasslands and agriculture from the spreading sands of the dismal...
Secrets Behind Rome’s Self-Healing Concrete Leads Scientist to Launch Roman-Style Concrete Business
A scientist who figured out the secret behind ancient Rome’s self-repairing concrete has recently confirmed his theory at a Pompeii building site where such concrete was in use. This marriage of theoretical and historical knowledge combined with hard evidence has...
Minnesota Tow Truck Driver Returns Abandoned Vehicles to Families After ICE Arrests
It was only a few months ago that Juan Leon became the proud owner of Minnesota’s newest tow truck service. Not long after, he began to get calls about abandoned vehicles and realized there was a pattern. Whether it was parked on the side of the street or in the lot...
Pet Sanctuary Takes in Overflow from Homeless Shelter Amid Unprecedented Cold Snap
A cat shelter in Green Bay has opened its doors to anyone seeking shelter from the Siberian temperatures pummeling the Midwest this week. Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary typically takes in felines in need of special assistance and care for blindness or other disabilities,...
Woman Discovers Childhood Pen Pal Became Doctor Who Delivered Her 2 Kids: ‘My Mouth Dropped’
It wasn’t quite a reunion; since the women knew each other well. Their relationship, so far as they understood it, was that important one between an OB/GYN and their patient carrying a child. Little did Megan Lewis and Suzanne Koziol know it at the time, but their...
January 14th Marked the Longest Period Without a Nuclear Detonation Since the Atomic Age Began
8 years, 4 months, and 29 days—that’s how long it’s been since the last nuclear weapon was detonated on Earth—and it’s also the longest such timespan since the nuclear age began. Since that fateful day in the sands of America’s southwest in 1945, it’s actually rather...
Astonishing 1,400-year-old Tomb Featuring Giant Owl Sculpture Discovered in Mexico
It’s being called the most significant archaeological discovery in a decade: a tomb dating back 1,400 years decorated with murals and carvings of exquisite preservation. Belonging to one of Mexico’s non-Mayan native cultures, the Zapotecs, its most striking feature is...
Nebraska Woman Learns to Row, Then Becomes First Female to Cross the Atlantic Alone in 3,000 Mile Race
The ocean dreams took hold of Taryn Smith when she was living in landlocked Nebraska, craving open-water adventures as a young adult in Omaha. Smith, who’s now 25, read an article about an all-female rowing team that set a world record in the Great Pacific Race in...
