Some of the most popular stories on the Good News Network in 2012 involved animals. Whether the largest elephant or smallest dog, animals are often ready to reveal hearts of true compassion and they can easily evoke an equally compassionate response in us humans.
Enjoy these top stories of the year:
Tracy Lynn DelValle of Gardner, Massachusetts posted a story and photo on Facebook proving that (in her words), “Not all kids nowadays are thoughtless.”
Tracy’s neighbor, who is aging in her 60’s, was attempting to shovel the snow around her car in the driveway yesterday.
“She looked pale, and after each shovelful, she put her head down and rested for a few minutes,” wrote Tracy, who was ill, and unable to assist.
Tracy Lynn DelValle of Gardner, Massachusetts posted a story and photo on Facebook proving that (in her words), “Not all kids nowadays are thoughtless.”
Tracy’s neighbor, who is aging in her 60’s, was attempting to shovel the snow around her car in the driveway yesterday.
“She looked pale, and after each shovelful, she put her head down and rested for a few minutes,” wrote Tracy, who was ill, and unable to assist.
The White House announced last week it was expanding the area of protected California coastline known as the National Marine Sanctuary system by almost 3,000 square miles. The designation triples the area of coastline under protection to 4,500 square miles.
While still allowing fishing in these areas off Sonoma and Mendocino, the act prohibits offshore oil and gas drilling.
HooplaHa posted a video on YouTube celebrating the end of the year with an original montage of heroes filmed in 2012.
Watch the video and see if you can spot any stories that were posted on the Good News Network…
In a field often dominated by news of felled forests and population declines, tigers have delivered a bit of holiday cheer.
Wildlife conservationists report populations on the upswing in protected areas of India, Russia and Thailand.
Despite dangerously low global numbers, tigers are rebounding in three significant landscapes, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, fostering hope for these iconic big cats.
In a field often dominated by news of felled forests and population declines, tigers have delivered a bit of holiday cheer.
Wildlife conservationists report populations on the upswing in protected areas of India, Russia and Thailand.
Despite dangerously low global numbers, tigers are rebounding in three significant landscapes, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, fostering hope for these iconic big cats.
Ford Motor Company is spending more than $773 million on new equipment and capacity expansions across six manufacturing facilities in southeast Michigan. The investments will create 2,350 new hourly jobs.
Ford is delivering on a commitment made to the United Auto Workers in the recent contract negotiations to invest $6.2 billion in U.S. plants by 2015.
Patrick Dempsey says he wants to rescue a Seattle coffee house chain and more than 500 jobs.
The “Grey’s Anatomy” star said Wednesday he’s leading a group attempting to buy Tully’s Coffee. The Seattle-based company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October.
In a partnership built on the true spirit of giving, members of the Muslim mosque in London, Ontario decided to help boost a Catholic church holiday food drive.
100 families were given supplies of food for Christmas, and with the bigger than average donations to the drive, the church will be able to replenish their food bank.
The Garden of Dreams Foundation paired nine Knicks players with deserving families to go on Christmas shopping sprees worth thousands of dollars.
Amare Stoudemire spent hours with one family, paying $5,500 for their carts filled with toys, clothes and goodies from the local Target department store.
Santa Claus — aka Julio “Sly” Dones — is back outside of the Harrison Gardens public housing complex, bringing holiday cheer to children of all ages for the 43rd year in a row.
Santa stands next to the elaborate Nativity scene he created at Third and Jackson streets handing out candy while Christmas carols play on a stereo.
(READ the story with a photo in NewJersey.com)
With so much darkness in the news lately, it’s amazing how one simple idea could bring so much light to so many lives. That’s what happened last weekend in Snohomish, when over 100 people came together to make a dream reality for their blind friend.
For the legally-blind teen, her dream was to drive a car just once.
It started as a simple tribute to his mother, a teacher and bibliophile. Todd Bol put up a miniature version of a one-room schoolhouse on a post outside his home in Hudson, Wisconsin, filled it with books and invited his neighbors to borrow them.
They loved it, and began dropping by so often that his lawn became a gathering spot. Then a friend in Madison put out some similar boxes and got the same reaction.
I dedided to take a day off in 2012. That day is December 25.
Hope you have a great Christmas and a happy New Year.
We will be back on the job tomorrow — ever ready to receive the best good news from around the world.
The text from Sister Diane at St. Ignatius Martyr church was as odd as it was urgent: “A man is going to call. You must answer the phone.”
Kerry Ann Troy had just finished her daily “cry time” – that half-hour between dropping the kids off at school and driving back to her gutted house on New York’s Long Island or to the hurricane relief center.
Donald Denihan, who had made his money in hotel and real estate investments, had set up a fund. He called it God is Good. Until now, he wasn’t sure how he would use it.
(READ the AP story in the NY Daily News)
Twenty sophomores from Temple University thought they were competing against each other during a scholarship award ceremony on Wednesday but instead they got a huge surprise.
At a dinner at which he received the Musser Award from Temple’s Fox School of Business, Steven Korman told the students he had raised the scholarship amount to $12,000, and that each of the students would be receiving one.
Former East London fish seller Muhammad Shahid Nazir shot to fame this month after a video of his fish song went viral attracting more than 6.3 million views: “Come on ladies/Come on ladies/One pound fish.”
Shahid came to Britain on a visa to make a better life for his family are still back in Pakistan.
He quit market trading after the video became so popular he was offered a recording deal, according to the BBC in early December.
Every afternoon and night, the Brooklyn man stuffs his red sack to the brim with presents and heads out to storm-ravaged homes.
He is personally delivering new toys to awestruck little kids whose play rooms were destroyed by floodwaters.
Using a spreadsheet taped to a wall, Michael Sciaraffo matches toy requests with donations that are coming by the truckload from all over the country from a donation outreach effort he started on Facebook.
(READ the AP story here)
Every afternoon and night, the Brooklyn man stuffs his red sack to the brim with presents and heads out to storm-ravaged homes.
He is personally delivering new toys to awestruck little kids whose play rooms were destroyed by floodwaters.
Using a spreadsheet taped to a wall, Michael Sciaraffo matches toy requests with donations that are coming by the truckload from all over the country from a donation outreach effort he started on Facebook.
