Information on Today's Good News
There is ample media attention to the bad, ugly, perverted, and the horrific. Today's Good News was started to let people know that in the midst of the negative news there is also good news. News about people helping people, amazing escapes from tragedies, miraculous rescues, and even supernatural verified healings. It is our goal to inspire our readers and to give them hope in these troubled times.
It should be noted that Today's Good News is not about “prettying” up the bad news. Often the positive and negative go hand in hand in a news story.
Also, the reality is that the world is not getting better, but worse.
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Nathan Acker, 88, has been delivering meals from Prides Corner Congregational Church in Westbrook for 23 years.
Every Wednesday he loads up 14 meals and hits the road.
Wednesday was special because after all of those years, he delivered his 10,000th meal.
Acker has no intentions of slowing down and said the people on the other end of the meals mean a lot to him.
"I like being with people. This isn't the only thing I do. I volunteer at nursing homes. I run a bridge game at one of the nursing homes. We have a program at our church. I say the only reason I got the job was that I was the only one who would do it," said Acker.
Acker is a World War II veteran and a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He said he never retired because the company he worked for went bankrupt.
Source: WMTW
Some 200 poor children with deformed limbs have come to Bangalore in the hope of learning to walk, skip and jump like their friends. Making them realize their dream will be 30 top surgeons from India, UK and USA who will conduct 30 surgeries a day. All this free of cost.
The Sparsh Hospital at the health city came alive on Monday when doctors began their week-long operations. The foreign specialists had flown down at their own cost bringing with them their medical equipment. Some of the complex challenging musculoskeletal abnormalities that will be tackled are: congenital pseudoarthrosis of the tibia, club foot, cerebral palsy, congenital dislocation of hips and gross deformity correction.
Whoever said there was no honor among thieves will be proven wrong by a crew of "putpockets" who are putting the tricks of their trade to positive use.
A band of 20 reformed pickpockets have taken to slipping wads of cash into the handbags and clothing of unsuspecting citizens enjoying the London's favorite destinations.
The putpockets plan to drop a total sum of approximately $170,000 into the bilfolds of cash-strapped citizens around London's tourist areas.
The initiative is being bankrolled by TalkTalk, a broadband provider looking to brighten the atmosphere during the country's gloomy recession.
"It feels good to give something back for a change - and Britons certainly need it in the current economic climate," Chris Fitch, a former pickpocket who now heads the putpocketing initiative, told the Mail. "Every time I put money back in someone's pocket, I feel less guilty about the fact I spent many years taking it out."
For more on this story, check out UK's Daily Mail.
Every day on NPR, listeners hear funding credits — or, in other words, very short, simple commercials.
A few weeks ago, a new one made it to air: "Support for NPR comes from the estate of Richard Leroy Walters, whose life was enriched by NPR, and whose bequest seeks to encourage others to discover public radio."
NPR's Robert Siegel wondered who Walters was. So Siegel Googled him.
An article in the online newsletter of a Catholic mission in Phoenix revealed that Walters died two years ago at the age of 76. He left an estate worth about $4 million. Along with the money he left for NPR, Walters also left money for the mission.
But something distinguished Walters from any number of solvent, well-to-do Americans with seven-figure estates: He was homeless.
When Eric Hagen started Recession Ride Taxi in Essex, Vt., he took more questions than fares.
Everyone wanted to know if the sign reading "Pay What You Want!" on the back of his taxi was for real. It is, and Hagen says he hasn't been shortchanged yet.
He offers pay-what-you-can bottles of water, Gatorade and soda and a free ride after six paid fares. He tells the Burlington Free Press that business has been good.
Most of his transactions are in cash. But he's also gotten a CD from a musician and a $10 supermarket card.
Hagen has been offering his taxi service Thursday through Sunday nights since June. When he's not a taxi driver, the 46-year-old Hagen works full time for the American Red Cross.
Source: GoodNewsNetwork
South Korea's president will donate about $26 million — almost all of his personal fortune — to establish a new youth scholarship program.
President Lee Myung-bak's scholarship foundation will be formally launched early next month, the presidential Blue House said in a statement.
"My fortune, which I accumulated through hard work during my life, is very precious to me," Lee was quoted as saying in a separate Blue House statement. "I have long thought that it would be good if (my wealth) was spent for society in a valuable way."
A 107-year-old Virginia man who faced the prospect of losing his home will be able to stay on after all, thanks to the generosity of strangers.
Larry "Curly" Haubner has lived through some incredible experiences, but unfortunately, he has outlived his savings. He was no longer able to pay for his assisted living facility.
A campaign to help out Haubner drew more than $56,000 in donations ranging from $2 to $1,200, Carol Ewing, who handles his legal and financial affairs, told The Washington Post.
The new funds, added to the $7,300 already raised by Haubner's supporters, should allow him to stay in the Greenfield assisted living center for at least another two years.
When Washington manicurist Lidia Schaefer returned to her native village in Ethiopia, she was troubled by what she saw: children walking three hours each way to attend classes held not in a school, but under a tree.
When she learned in 1998 that one of the girls she'd met -- Medhine -- had been attacked and killed by a hyena after falling behind other children during the long trek home from school, Schaefer knew she had to act.
She began setting aside a third of her salary and all of her tips, and later sold her house and car, to raise enough money to build a school for the village.
"She's definitely not your average manicurist," says Denise Abrahams, a longtime client.
For Schaefer, it was simply a matter of doing what felt right. "I don't work with my head," she says. "I really work with my heart."
