A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
The Northeast Dairy Producers Association announced that farms and co-ops across Upstate New York have donated more than 34,000 pounds of milk, beef, fruit and vegetables to fellow New Yorkers in need.
Source: New York State Farmers donate 34,000+ pounds of milk, beef and produce to NYC families in need
Great idea.
Eleven-year-old Jorja Boller wanted to cheer up older adults in the nursing homes around her hometown of Beatrice, Nebraska.
Source: Pony visits bring cheer to isolated nursing home residents – CNN
A very cool idea.
UK libraries are at the heart of local communities as eborrowing soars, printers turn out PPE, and staff get creative online
Source: Lego, learning and laughter: how libraries are thriving in lockdown | Society | The Guardian
Libraries (and librarians) everywhere are coming to the rescue.
Graham Walters nearly missed out when he was blown off course six miles from Antigua
Source: British 72-year-old is oldest person to row solo across Atlantic | World news | The Guardian
Impressive!
Unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions — a new chart every day. From Information is Beautiful.
Source: Healthy Life Expectancy Has Increased in Almost Every Country Since 2000 — Beautiful News
Encouraging.
When Gustavus, Alaska, was cut off from its grocery supply chain, one resident decided to take action.
Source: The man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship
Quite the story.
Funds for native American tribes who have been badly hit by coronavirus are flooding in from Ireland as they repay a debt dating back to the 19th-century famine.
Source: Grateful Irish honour their Famine debt to Choctaw tribe – Independent.ie
I thought this was pretty special.
It’s time off for good behavior like you’ve never seen it before
Source: Six inmates who saved guard’s life rewarded with shorter sentences – CBS News
A good deed, and a good reward.
A start-up is recycling tonnes of discarded fishing nets throughout Chile. Is this a template for tackling the global plastic waste problem?
Source: Ocean plastic was choking Chile’s shores. Now it’s in Patagonia’s hats | World news | The Guardian
Very cool idea.
A therapy dog from Baltimore, Maryland, is at the forefront of the city’s volunteering efforts to support hospital staff in light of the coronavirus outbreak. Loki, a 2-year-old Rottweiler and her owner, Caroline Benzel, a medical student enrolled at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, have collected over 4,500 “Hero Healing Kits”, which haveRead More
Good dog(tor).