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KINDNESS • Good News Network
He spent his house deposit on grandad. A stranger repaid it.A 21-year-old England fan named Jacob Allmendinger spent his house deposit, about $13,000, to take his 80-year-old grandad to the World Cup in the USA and Mexico. Then a stranger gave it all back. Allmendinger and Geoff Golliker, who have gone to matches together in Hull since Jacob was a boy, traveled to New York and Atlanta before witnessing England's 3-2 win at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. Their story went viral, and a US-based crypto casino called Metawin promised to repay the money. An unsolicited pledge from a crypto casino is not one any sensible person takes to heart, and Allmendinger was skeptical. Then the money landed. "I didn't quite believe it, to be honest, until I looked at my bank and it was there," he said. He plans to save it for now. On the trip that started it all: "We get on like a house on fire. We're more best mates than grandad and grandson."
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
A barber flew in. Locals learned skin fades straightaway.Queensland barber Jon James flew to Mornington Island, off Australia's northern coast, and found a crowd waiting on the airstrip for a trim. The island knows how to fish. It has no barber's pole, which meant residents had been waiting for a haircut roughly as long as it takes to fly one in. James came through the Fade Wellbeing Barbering Program, run by North West Remote Health, a community that has struggled with unemployment and recently lost several men to suicide. He brought 20 professional barber kits to hand out and spent his days teaching. The line for his own chair diverted fast. "I couldn't believe how quickly they picked up barbering," he said. "They're like, 'Let's go further.' And then they were doing skin fades straight up." Then a local asked him to tidy up a bride and groom for their wedding. His students handled the guests. The couple invited him to stay.
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
An 11-year-old put on his goggles and pulled a man outAn 11-year-old boy in Kentucky is credited with pulling an unconscious man from an apartment swimming pool last week, after the adults nearby stood frozen. Avory Woolery saw that no one was moving, so he did the practical thing. He put on his goggles. "I went underwater," he told local news. "I grabbed him up and I just felt really bad because there was no way that I was going to let another man die today. He's a human being. He should be treated as such." Once Avory got the man onto solid ground, someone he assumed was a friend began CPR until first responders arrived. The man was taken to a hospital, where WKYT reported he remained in critical condition. Avory's father said he was proud. As he walked up, a stranger stopped him. "Thank you," the person said. "You taught him how to swim."
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NATURE • Sunny Skyz
18 rescued donkeys have stopped wildfires for nine straight yearsA herd of 18 rescued donkeys has helped keep Doñana National Park in southern Spain free of forest fires for nine straight years, according to the nonprofit El Burrito Feliz. The method is not complicated. The donkeys eat. From March through November, the animals are released into hard to reach terrain where fire crews and heavy equipment struggle to work, and they graze up to seven hours a day on the dry grass and scrub that fuels Spain's summer wildfires. Donkeys can stomach much tougher, drier plants than cattle or sheep, which makes them well suited to the job. Their unofficial leader is Galileo, who was rescued in poor health and spent his first months recovering in a dog shelter. His caretakers say he sniffs like a dog and has tried to bark. Volunteers from Mujeres por Doñana follow the herd all day, hauling carts of water so the herbivorous firefighters stay hydrated.
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MOTIVATIONAL • Upworthy
Winning is being better today than you were yesterdayFrank Dick, the veteran Scottish track coach, has a story he tells about a 9-year-old girl who finished dead last in her first 100-meter race. She lined up against seven other kids, ran hard, and hurled herself at the line for eighth place in 18 seconds. Afterward she found him, deflated, and said, "I was last." Dick disagreed. "You were 18 seconds," he told her. He had expected 19. She had beaten his estimate by a full second, which made it her personal best, and made her the first athlete he had ever coached to run exactly that time. "In some ways, you're a first," he said. His larger point, shared in a clip circulating on YouTube, is simple. "Winning is being better today than you were yesterday, every day." He predicts that with a few more weeks of work, she will be elbowing the other kids at the finish line. She showed up to race again. That was the win.
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With love, The Editor
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