Not All News is Bad!

Valeria Yezhova sits at a little folding table outside the sliding doors of a Kyiv shopping center on a warm afternoon, waiting for someone to sit down in the camping chair across from her and try to give her a run for her money on the checkers board on the table.

Source: The 10-year-old checkers champion winning hearts and money for Ukraine’s army

I love this.

“You have to save everybody in life,” second grade student David Diaz Jr. said of his heroism.

Source: 7-year-old saves choking classmate with moves he learned from TV medical drama

Well done! (And if the “as seen on TV” theme seems familiar: this.)

A large capacity water battery in Switzerland will help stabilise European energy grids.

Source: Switzerland spent 14 years and €2 billion on this ‘water battery’

Cool idea.

Border collie Saul’s enthusiastic behavior prompted rescuers to follow him to where his owner lay injured at a remote campsite.

Source: Dog helps rescue owner who fell 70 feet in California forest

Good boy!

NEW YORK (AP) — Laura Romani, a Chicago-area resident with a background in education and library science, had been thinking of a new career. “I was at home a couple of years ago reflecting on all the experience I gained and how I wanted to contribute to the Latino community, while also allowing myself to be on my own and make use of my love for books and passion for multilingualism,” she says.

Source: Independent booksellers grew in number, diversity in 2021

Who’d a thought it?

Potter Park Zoo announced the birth of the baby bintlets on Tuesday.

Source: Potter Park Zoo welcomes at-risk newborn bintlets

Cute!

“We started to consider closing,” co-owner Jazmine Cooper said. But then the community began donating to help.

Source: A small bookstore was scammed. The local community stepped in to save it.

Community bookstore, community support. Nice.

Saw this man sitting by himself at a Waffle House in Midway, Florida.

So I said hello and asked him what he was doing with that money. pic.twitter.com/UY2uBW7hXE

— Kevin Cate (@KevinCate) July 9, 2022

Source: Handing out $1s and $5s to strangers, since 2014

The reason, however. Very cool.

(This is my first time sharing a Twitter thread/post. Hopefully the embed works, but if not, click the Source link to see it.)

An Australian man set out to apologize to his DoorDash driver after a misunderstanding. Here’s how TikTok played a role in helping connect the men.

Source: Man Accidentally Yelled at His DoorDash Driver, and TikTok Helped Him Make Things Right

Social media to the rescue.

A single mother received an unexpected tip of $4,000 from a generous stranger at a dance hall in Cleburne that will help her send her son to college.

Source: Good Samaritan Leaves $4,000 Tip for Single Mom in Texas

So cool.