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.
Top 30 Most Delightful Things That Happen Unexpectedly–Like Finding Cash in Jeans or Compliments from Strangers
A new poll compiled the top 30 most unexpectedly delightful things to happen, including pulling cash from the pocket of an old pair of jeans, getting a surprise refund, and receiving a compliment from a stranger. The survey of 2,000 adults, found 36 percent love it...
Local Car Community Comes Together in Two Days to Form Parade of 83 Drivers for Stranger’s Birthday – WATCH
A devoted single mom was looking for a budget friendly way to give her son a special birthday—so she reached out on Facebook to the local car community and their response left her speechless. Mikayla Freeman was hoping to urge a few motor enthusiasts to form ‘a car...
Texas Explorer Leads Team to Become the First Ever to Row the Arctic’s Northwest Passage
Described as “one of the last great ‘firsts'” the passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Canadian Arctic was, for the first time ever, rowed by an expedition of 3 men and 1 woman. West Hansen, Eileen Visser, Mark Agnew, and Jeff Wueste, who together...
When Builders in Maui Came Together to Help Build Tiny Homes for Man’s Family, it Grew into Growdfunded Rehousing Project
Buried under the 24-hour news cycles of the last few months, recovery in Lahaina is progressing, one tiny house at a time. William Fincher, an owner of two restaurants in the historic Maui town which tragically burned down this August, is receiving help from neighbors...
Hero Bus Driver Saves Boy From Choking on Coin, Rushing Him to Safety–WATCH
Not all heroes wear capes, some like Raquel Radford Baker, drive school buses. Baker, a veteran driver for Dallas Independent School District, was on a routine route for the kids at Seagoville North Elementary School when one of them, a boy just 7 years old began to...
Chicago Marathoner Gave Up Record Finish to Save Kitten–Which Goes on to Find New Home with Spectator
A Chicago Marathon runner gave up a record finish in order to save a stray kitten she found on the course. The story got sweeter when amid the spectators on the side of the road, she found Andrea Maldonado who called out that she would give the kitten a new home....
72-Year-old Graduates from College with His 99-year-old Mom Cheering Him On
Sam Kaplan of Lawrenceville, Georgia has added many items to his resume over the years. But on May 11th, in his 72nd year of life, he added a particularly late line item—a college degree. Alongside classmates 50 years his junior, Kaplan crossed the stage in cap and...
Wash. D.C’s ‘Weed Warrior’ Volunteers Tackle ‘Mile-a-Minute’ Invasives to Save the Capital’s Trees
Around the capital beltway or Washington’s famous Rock Creek Park, you may see a group of people ripping up vines along the treeline beside the roads. If you have then you’ve glimpsed superheroes who traded in their capes for gardening gloves and their time for the...
Mom and Daughter Reunite as Co-Workers Aboard Hospital with Nurse Who Saved Their Lives 30 Years Ago
30 years and a continent separated Catherine Conteh, her daughter Regina, and a nurse named Aly who was visiting their home in Sierra Leone and saved her life by funding an emergency surgery. Regina wasn’t born on the day of that fateful meeting, technically, because...
