Good News Notes: “Eleven-year-old Allan Baltz of Jonesboro, Arkansas, is familiar with the foster care system. When he and his twin sister Alice were only four, they came to live with Derek and Lesli Baltz. Lesli said she and her husband became foster parents with the intention of helping kids reunite with their families, but their plans…
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North Carolina nonprofit builds free homes for licensed foster families
Good News Notes: “A North Carolina nonprofit is building free homes for foster families aimed at keeping large sibling groups together and in their own home communities. Alex Williams, the founder of Fostering Hopes, told Fox News that North Carolina limits how many children, including biological children, can be in a home. “It’s very, very difficult to…
Students fill hundreds of backpacks for children in foster care
Good News Notes: ‘“You want to make kids feel loved who maybe don’t have it as well as we do, and you don’t want them to go into a home where they don’t know anybody already not feeling well about themselves. You want to make them feel like somebody does care,” Horter said. The club…
Actress Tatyana Ali donates $100K to Winter Garden midwifery school
Good News Notes: “She’s been on soap operas and one of the most successful sitcoms of all time. Now Tatyana Ali is stepping up to help a local organization that helps expectant mothers and the midwives who help them deliver. Ali played for a local cause during a recent celebrity edition of Wheel of Fortune….
Iliza Shlesinger Welcomes First Baby with Husband Noah Galuten
Good News Notes: “Iliza Shlesinger‘s baby girl is here! The actress and comedian, 38, and husband Noah Galuten welcomed their first child together, daughter Sierra Mae, on Thursday, Jan. 13, PEOPLE can exclusively announce. Baby Sierra was born in Los Angeles at 11:26 p.m., weighing 7 lbs., 9 oz. and measuring 20 inches at birth. “We…
‘Miracle’ baby born at just 22 weeks goes home after 4 months in NICU
Good News Notes: “A premature baby born in Virginia is defying the odds and astonishing doctors. Little Leilani was born at 22 weeks, weighing just about one pound. Now, she is finally home after four months in the NICU. Her mother, Shantel Allmon, told WWBT she knew something wasn’t right when her water broke only five and…
Rare twin baby elephants born in Kenya
Good News Notes: “Suckled by their mother Bora and guarded by a watchful male, rare newborn twin baby elephants ingested nourishment that conservationists hope will enable them to survive a perilous start to life in a Kenyan safari park. As yet unnamed, the pair were born this week in the Samburu National Reserve, becoming only…
‘I am happy that I was there’: Woman honored for heroic actions after stopping attempted child kidnapping
Good News Notes: “An employee for the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Human Resources was given a “Certificate of Recognition” after she intervened and prevented an attempted child kidnapping. Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi presented the certificate to Anuhea Salangsang for her heroic actions that saved a child. On Dec. 28, 2021, an unknown…
Bakery feeds stranded motorists during blizzard after hungry couple’s plea for help
Good News Notes: “It’s the yeast they could do. A Maryland couple stranded without food in the freezing cold on a Virginia highway this week were getting hungrier and more desperate by the minute. After about 20 hours stuck on Interstate 95, Casey Holihan and her husband, John Noe, spotted a Schmidt Baking Co. truck ahead of…
Nonprofit charity flies Chandler boy on private jet for life-changing surgery
Good News Notes: “A nonprofit organization is helping take a boy from his home here in the Valley to Ohio for life-changing surgery. Aeroangel is a nonprofit that provides free jets and flights for seriously ill children and their families who need to travel for life-saving medical care. On Tuesday, a private jet took Jude…