Good News Notes: “Sister Alphonsine Ciza spends most of her day in gum boots, white veil tucked under a builder’s hat, manning the micro-hydroelectric plant she built to overcome daily electricity cuts in her town of Miti in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. She works around the clock with a team of nuns and engineers,…
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Collingswood police rescue man trapped in car sinking into Cooper River
Good News Notes: “Collingswood police officers rescued a man who was trapped in a car sinking into the Cooper River early Saturday, breaking the car windows with a baton to pull him out of the submerged vehicle. Police said they responded at 6:34 a.m. to the Cooper River at Route 130 North after a report…
Blogger helps raise $20,000 for Boise nonprofit
Good News Notes: “Have you heard about The Closet? It’s located in a strip mall on Fairview Avenue in Boise. It looks like a teen retail shop, and it is. But, it’s so much more than that. It’s a nonprofit organization that provides free clothing to teens in need in 6th through 12th grades in…
He Lost Nearly Everything To Addiction. Then An Arrest Changed His Life
Good News Notes: “Heroin started rewiring and taking control of Will’s brain in the early 2000s, as he turned 40. “Back then, if you used drugs people didn’t want anything to do with you,” Will recalls. “People gave up on me.” Will lost almost everything: jobs, his driver’s license, his car, his marriage and his…
Stillwater man adopts Minneapolis homeless camps
Good News Notes: “For a man who claims to be terrible with names, Bryan Ring seemed to have no trouble last week at the homeless encampment near Sheridan Memorial Park in Minneapolis. ‘Hey, Robert,’ he said to a man headed to the camp’s portable toilet while wearing just one boot. ‘How are you doing? Get…
Random acts of kindness through Christmas Jars –
Good News Notes: “A Charlottesville native is spreading joy during the holiday season with random acts of kindness. ‘Fifteen years, my family and I experimented with a little jar on the counter that we fill up with spare change. During the holidays, we picked a family to give it away to anonymously. We had no…
Osceola church giving away masks to help protect the community
Good News Notes: “One church in Osceola County is finding a way to make sure everyone can keep their faces covered during the pandemic. Pastor Jay McCaig said he figured the face covering order would be difficult to enforce, but he still thinks it is important to wear one and to encourage others to do…
Florida couple cancels wedding, gets married on Facebook live
Good News Notes: “One Tampa Bay area bride and groom decided to get creative with their nuptials after learning that their March 21 wedding date would have to wait. ‘It’s crazy times right now. With everything going on, it was still important for us to do the ceremony,’ Madeline Beck said. Beck and her now-husband…
“Reel Hope” for Kids in Foster Care
Good News Notes: “For as long as Kaycee Stanley ’09 can remember, adoption had always been her ‘plan A.’ When she and her husband, Pete, started sharing their dreams of adoption with others, they received enthusiastic support. But when they explained they planned to adopt from foster care, they were met with skepticism and discouraging…
Community hopes to preserve historic Methodist church built in 1870
Good News Notes: “For Brett Merkley, entering the old Methodist Episcopal Church is like stepping into a frontier church of an old Western movie. The simple one-story brick chapel is lined with wooden pews and hymnals. Light shines through the stained-glass windows. A small pulpit and pump organ stand at the front of the chapel…