Not All News is Bad!

“I won’t be fussing at him for chewing up blankets and shoes,” the girls’ father said.

Source: Dog protects young girls for hours after getting lost in woods

Good dog! (The protection part, not the getting lost part. 🙂 )

Cecilia Mancini saw smoke billowing out of the church, prompting her dad Angelo to alert church staff and call 9-1-1.

Source: 6-year-old Woodbury girl hailed a hero for helping save church during fire

Nicely done!

Louis Nicolao dove into an icy pond to save his dog, Moose, after he fell into the water in Anne Arundel County.

Source: Owner takes polar plunge to save dog after he falls through icy pond in Anne Arundel Co.

I love how social media essentially enabled this rescue.

In early December, the Parrett family met and fell in love with a stray dog while visiting family in Texas. The family had to leave it behind so they could fly home－but were reunited again on Christmas Day.

Source: ‘I wanted to make them happy’: Grandpa drives stray dog 1250 miles to surprise grandkids

Nice.

Craig Elston, stranded at his barbershop, welcomed 40 people into his business on Friday night to give them shelter from the blizzard. Nearly 30 remained through Saturday, the blizzard’s second night.

Source: Barbershop becomes blizzard shelter: ‘People told me I saved their life’

I suspect this is merely one of many similar stories. Well done.

As a powerful storm battered western New York with blinding blizzard conditions in the early hours of Christmas Eve, a Buffalo woman jumped into action when she saw a man who was caught in the storm.

Source: Buffalo woman saves man with severe frostbite after getting him out of the storm and pleading for help in a Facebook livestream | CNN

Inspiring, and amazing.

 

United Airlines staff rescued a dog abandoned by his owner at San Francisco International Airport and found him a forever home with one of its pilots.

Source: A puppy was abandoned at an airport. Then a United pilot adopted him.

Nicely done.

After a van carrying 10 tourists from South Korea got stuck in the snow near Buffalo, New York, a kindhearted neighbor offered to host the visitors.

Source: 10 South Korean tourists were stranded in a blizzard near Buffalo. Then they spent 2 nights in a stranger’s home, cooking and watching football.

Nice.

We’re really going to need this.

Source: New Technology Could Tap Into a Virtually Limitless Supply of Fresh Water

Water is so important. I love seeing another approach.

Warming centres are the last stitch in Vancouver’s social safety net, with most providing little more than a basic refuge from the freezing temperatures outside. On Wednesday night, there was pizza.

Source: Almost 200 pizzas arrived at warming centres across Vancouver this week. Here’s what happened.

Well done!