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With no explanation, Tony’s mother and father who adopted him nine years ago, left him at an Oklahoma hospital and never returned.

Source: Single dad adopts 13-year-old who was abandoned 2 years earlier at hospital | GMA

Great story.

Rachel Taylor was wearing white when she cradled an accident victim in her arms last Sunday, but it wasn’t the nurse uniform she’d just earned from Bethel University. It was her wedding…

Source: Still in her wedding dress, a new bride from Inver Grove Heights calms accident victim – Twin Cities

“Rockstar Bride” indeed. A memorable wedding day.

Chicago neighbors bought all the paletas from an old man’s cart so he could go home on Father’s Day, then raised $60k for Don Rosario’s retirement.

Source: They Buy All the Frozen Pops From Old Man’s Cart So He Could Get Out of the Heat, Then Raise 60,000 For Him

He sounds like quite a guy as well. Nicely done.

After talking to the students on his bus about history, he realized he wanted to do it even more – as a history teacher.

Source: School bus driver inspired by students gets college degree during coronavirus pandemic – CBS News

Well done, students and student. 🙂

Michaela Munyan, 9, learned how to sew in an after-school program at Trinity Lutheran in Utica, but she had no idea her new skills would come in such handy.

Source: 9-year-old in Oakland Township sews more than 500 masks, gives them away

Nicely done.

When Terri Herrington’s husband Bryan died 16 years ago, he saved the lives of four other people through organ donation. She befriended Jeffrey Granger, who received Bryan’s kidney and pancreas. When that kidney failed last year, Terri immediately volunteered to donate her own kidney, which is now living on with Bryan’s organs in Jeff.

Source: 16 years after her late husband’s donated organs saved a life, she gave her kidney to save the life of the same man – CNN

Organ donation saves lives.

When Michelle Brenner lost her job because of the pandemic, she decided to use her extra time and a family lasagna recipe to create a free food movement in her Washington community.

Source: Furloughed from her job, she’s now the ‘Lasagna Lady’ who cooks free meals for first responders and friends – CNN

When life hands you lemons  make lemonade — or lasagna — for everyone!

Before Covid-19’s US arrival, Ben Goldstein made a new friend. The 30-year-old music producer started volunteering with the nonprofit DOROT which matches volunteers with older New Yorkers looking to beat loneliness. Now the visits have shifted to phonecalls and Zoom.

Source: They bonded over lox and bagels and music, then Covid-19 hit. Now this 82 year old widower and his Millennial friend are beating loneliness through Zoom. – CNN

What a cool story.

In chaotic times it can be reassuring to see so many people working toward a better world.

Source: Innovators Under 35 2020 | MIT Technology Review

A nice long list of hope for our future.

 

More than $16,000 has been raised for a Starbucks employee after a customer posted on Facebook that the barista refused to serve her at a San Diego location because she wasn’t wearing a mask.

Source: Starbucks employee receives more than $16K in tips after refusing to serve a customer who wasn’t wearing a mask | TheHill

Well done, everyone.