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"We sure could use a little good news today," sang Anne Murray in a number-one country hit from 1983. That sentiment is more true now than ever -- and that is what this thread is about. Here is some good news involving a Santa Claus who wears a bus driver's uniform:
Texas elementary school bus driver saved money from his paychecks to buy every child on his route a Christmas gift
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-...sMGP?ocid=AMZN
Radio City Music Hall has the Rockettes. Los Angeles has the Rollettes. These are wheelchair-bound women with spinal cord injuries who are not allowing their disability to keep them from dancing. They have taken part in dance competitions and they were featured on The Today Show in 2017. CBS News' Caitlin O'Kane just wrote about them:
Dance group of women in wheelchairs inspires young girls with disabilities
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-rol...-disabilities/
http://www.rollettesdance.com/meet-the-rollettes
A popular song says "children are our future." Here is a group of kids in Spokane who have formed a Kindness Club and who, I am hopeful, are learning that showing kindness is something they should continue to do every day, for as long as they live. If we all learned that lesson, the future would be infinitely brighter.
Grant Elementary creates club that commits random acts of kindness
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-...ess/ar-BBSBUYx
I don't know why the Washington Post felt it necessary to identify this 15-year-old as "autistic." There were better words they could have used. How about "unselfish" or "caring" or "compassionate"?
Autistic teen wins lifetime supply of peanut butter, starts giving it away to furloughed government workers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-...rs/ar-BBSGhFZ?
A popular McDonald's slogan says "You deserve a break today." When an employee's car broke down, a customer decided to give her a break -- and a car.
Customer surprises McDonald's employee with car
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-...car/ar-BBSH4XC
The complete video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bAyQhBzgMGc
It's nice to hear a Chicago news story that doesn't involve shootings and killing. As Wednesday's temperature dropped to -25°, a real estate agent paid for 30 hotel rooms so a hundred homeless people would have a warm place to stay. She also provided food, clothes and transportation for them -- and her kindness inspired others to pay for rooms. Sixty rooms are now filled and Chicago's homeless know there really are people who care about their plight.
Chicago woman books 30 rooms for homeless people amid extreme cold conditions
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ch...ons/ar-BBT6aX2
With the number of independent bookstore owners dwindling, I suppose it isn't surprising that they would stick together -- figuratively, not literally.
A bookstore owner was in the hospital. His competitors came and kept his shop open.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-...pen/ar-BBU3vNa
A boy born with a heart defect underwent two surgeries in his first year of life and will eventually need a third surgery. The mother couldn't afford to care for the boy and asked a pediatric nurse to adopt him. It was surely a difficult decision for the mother and I'd like to think the adoptive parents will allow the woman to continue to be a part of the boy's life.
Nurse adopts baby she spent months caring for
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-...for/ar-BBUfQaB
Nobody in Dylan Chidick's family has ever gone to college. He will be the first to do so.
Once homeless teen gets 17 college acceptance letters
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-...ers/ar-BBUIINp
This boy wants to be a police officer when he grows up. He's already on his way.
California boy, 5, sworn in as junior officer by cops at his birthday party
https://www.foxnews.com/us/californi...birthday-party
"Hello, my friends." Here is a cute video of a three-year-old who wants to be a politician and has already learned to be an ingratiating glad-hander.
Three-year-old future politician introduces himself to plane passengers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/vira...ght/vi-BBViQUF
High-schoolers modified a Fisher-Price Power Wheels car to give mobility to a disabled two-year-old -- and he is now really mobile.
A high-school robotics team built a disabled toddler a wheelchair. Now he's chasing his corgis around.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-...und/ar-BBVAzWl
He dropped out of school in 1940 to get a job to support his family after his father died. Nearly eight decades later, he finally has his diploma.
91-year-old WWII vet graduates from Pennsylvania high school with his grandson
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/0...-grandson.html
Robert Smith, founder of the investment firm Vista Equity Partners, is going to pay off the student loans of 396 new graduates of Morehouse College. Wouldn't it be nice if other billionaires would follow his lead and do similar acts of kindness and generosity?
Morehouse College grads are surprised by a billionaire's promise to pay off their student loans
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/19/us/mo...rnd/index.html
In the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital commercials, Marlo Thomas implores us to "please make a donation to end childhood cancer." Here is a 12-year-old boy whose pig was auctioned for $15,000. The boy gave all the money to St. Jude. Marlo is proud of him. We all are.
7th grader donates $15,000 he earned at Ohio county fair
to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/7th-gra...arch-hospital/
The Random Acts Of Kindness organization encourages schools nationwide to have an annual Kindness Week. This Vancouver, Washington boy decided his act of kindness would be to earn money to pay his fellow students' lunch debts. But shouldn't every week be a Kindness Week?
https://www.randomactsofkindness.org...as-for-schools
An 8-year-old boy paid off the lunch debt for his entire school by selling key chains
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/bo...rnd/index.html
This man estimated his baseball card collection to be worth as much as $50,000 – and he chose to make a little girl happy by donating it to her. That is worth a lot more.
A California man donated 25,000 baseball cards to a
9-year-old girl who lost her collection in a wildfire
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/04/us/ma...rnd/index.html
This 12-year-old hand-carved a baseball bat for a friend. Other people wanted a bat. He now has a business ( thegreatderecho.com/ ) and a Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/thegreatderecho ).
An Iowa boy is selling baseball bats he makes from fallen trees to raise money for storm victims
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/us/io...rnd/index.html
The Make-A-Wish Foundation was founded in 1980 in Phoenix and now has 59 chapters in the United States and 39 affiliates in other countries. They fulfill the wishes of children who have a critical illness and are between the ages of 2½ and 18. You can donate at https://wish.org/
Michael Jordan makes historic Make-A-Wish donation
ABC News, Feb 15 2023 8:44 AM
Basketball legend Michael Jordan is celebrating his 60th birthday by making kids' wishes come true. Jordan, who will turn 60 on February 17, has donated $10 million to Make-A-Wish America, a nonprofit organization that grants wishes to children with critical illnesses. Jordan's donation is the largest in Make-A-Wish's 43-year history.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/mi...ry?id=97218463