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.
5 Days After Vanishing, Puppy Found Stuck Inside Bramble Thicket Unseen Except By Heat-Seeking Drone (Video)
A puppy was rescued from a ditch that was covered in thick brambles five days after she vanished—thanks to a heat-seeking drone. Six-month-old cocker spaniel Bow got lost while on a walk with her owner Jodie Dance, who hunted for hours on February 19 but was forced to...
Hero Garbageman Rescues Man, Woman, and Dog from Housefire
GNN often reports on lifesaving rescues by firemen, risking life and lung to pull people from burning buildings, but these two are not firemen, and are a different sort of hero. They’re heroes, no doubt, but by trade they haul trash. Nonetheless, while working in...
Village Saves 45,000 Toads From Roadway Deaths Cutting Casualties By 60%—All the Way Down to 3% Rate
Dispersed around the UK, hundreds of heroic volunteers soak themselves to the skin on early spring nights in order to save toads, frogs, and newts from being squished under the tires of passing cars. This network of volunteer societies are literally transforming...
New York Medical School Surprises Students with Free Tuition in Perpetuity After $1Billion Gift–WATCH
When a woman was left an inheritance of $1 billion from her late husband, she used it to pay forward the tuition of students at a Bronx medical school. The widow, Dr. Ruth Gottesman, was left the money by her late husband ‘Sandy’ Gottesman, who was an early investor...
Mom’s Love Helps Woman Wake from Coma after 5 years
From Grand Rapids comes a story too magical to believe—of a mother’s love creating a medical miracle, and a woman who cared for a comatose daughter in silence for half a decade. Jennifer Flewellen was 35 when, according to a feature on Good Morning America, she was...
Portland County Transcends its Rehousing Goals With 65% Drop in Homelessness
Clackamas County in Oregon, which contains the city of Portland, has reduced the rate of homelessness by 65% from 2019 to 2023, a number that officials say reflects a more comprehensive strategy. According to Clackamas County’s quarterly report on the Supportive...
When a Preschool Was Opened Inside a Dementia Care Home, All Heaven Broke Loose
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Centered on that concept of communal flourishing, Northwest England’s first intergenerational care village, home to both older people and young children living and learning together, recently celebrated its official...
Bolivian Town Protects 1 Million Acres of Amazon Rainforest–Building a ‘Conservation Mosaic’ of 90% Forests
In some countries, executive government action is what creates big protected areas of wild lands, but in Bolivia, with the announcement of the establishment of a truly gargantuan patch of protected forest, credit must be given to the ordinary people of the country. In...
At 96 He May Be Britain’s Oldest Worker–And He Has No Plans to Retire: ‘You can’t sit back…Keep going’
Britain’s oldest worker says he still has no plans to retire at the grand age of 96, after a career spanning eight decades. Bill Parton is still clocking in five days a week at the sawmill business he founded himself 42 years ago, and he has no plans to quit working....
