Good News Notes: “The best Christmas gift of all came for Mr. and Mrs. Clause: a baby. Amanda and Randy Clause welcomed baby Lorenzo into the world on Christmas Day at UPMC Horizon, and social media is loving it. ‘Through one foggy Christmas Eve and into Christmas morning, Mrs. Clause had a baby on Christmas…
Month: December 2019
Husband and Wife Closer Than Ever After Christmas Eve Kidney Transplant
Good News Notes: “A Michigan couple is going into the New Year’s closer than ever after celebrating an incredible Christmas. Vanessa and Logan Bosselar are together again after the doctors deemed their transplant a success. The operation took place early Christmas Eve. Doctors at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit removed Logan’s kidney and gave it…
Miami Heat’s Chris Silva Hugs Mom For First Time In Years During Pre-Game Emotional Reunion
Good News Notes: “Silva, 23, who left his home country of Gabon, in Africa in 2012, had only seen his mom only once in the past several years. On Friday, Chris’s mom, Carine surprised his son to tears just hours before tipoff in front of his coach and teammates at the American Airlines Arena. It…
Baby born on Interstate 93: Baby born on Christmas morning on New Hampshire highway
Good News Notes: “New Hampshire State Police said Wednesday several of their officers helped deliver a new baby on Interstate 93 near Boscawen just after midnight on Christmas. The New Hampshire State Police posted a photo on Facebook of the newborn baby, Dominic, and his smiling parents. According to police, Sergeant Vincent Grieco, Trooper Ryan St….
Donation will help ease financial burden for local cancer patients
Good News Notes: “Clearfield County Cancer Support Incorporated received a $1,000 grant from the Clearfield Charitable Foundation. The Clearfield Charitable Foundation is a local charity endowment that supports charities throughout the county. This year the CCF donated over $20,000 to 23 various organizations in Clearfield. One of those being the Clearfield Cancer Support Incorporated, a…
Serve Plants to Save the Planet
Good News Notes: “With holiday parties rapidly approaching, now is the time for environmental groups to walk the talk by adopting Earth-friendly menus for their events. The global scientific community agrees that we must reduce meat and dairy production to tackle the most pressing environmental disasters of our time. To do that, we have to…
Cargill and Renmatix collaborate to develop upcycled ingredients
Good News Notes: “Cargill and Renmatix have agreed to jointly explore new approaches for upcycling plant materials into functional food ingredients. They will use a proprietary water-based technology from Renmatix called the Plantrose Process and Cargill’s preferred feedstocks to develop alternatives for emulsifiers and hydrocolloids. The six-month partnership will test this technology for processing unused plant…
West Coast fishery rebounds in rare conservation ‘home run’
Good News Notes: “After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen — those who use nets to catch rockfish, bocaccio, sole, Pacific Ocean perch and other deep-dwelling fish — are making a comeback here, reinventing themselves as a sustainable industry less than two decades after authorities closed huge stretches of the Pacific Ocean because…
Oskaloosa High School students spread random acts of kindness
Good News Notes: “Oskaloosa High School students visited nursing and assisted living homes last week to spend some quality time with residents during the holiday season during their Random Acts of Kindness Week. This is the second year that Oskaloosa High School Student Council has taken on the Random Acts of Kindness Week. The idea…
Elevator Talk: Planeteer’s Edible Cutlery Aims to Reduce Plastic Pollution
Good News Notes: “Dinesh Tadepalli is the co-founder of Planeteer, a company that is helping to solve the plastic pollution problem by replacing plastic cutlery with edible cutlery. The brand’s first products are non-gmo, all-natural spoons that stay firm for 25 minutes in hot soups and 45 minutes in ice cream. The company aims to…