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Tuesday, Nov 3 · Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
Strangers ran toward the fire. Now 67 scholarships honor them.Four people ran toward the flames. Now her mother funds the rest.
A Texas foundation has awarded 67 scholarships totaling $67,000 to students who showed heroism and compassion, five years after an 18-year-old named Kenli Riney died in a highway crash. Riney's car spun into a ditch and caught fire after a head-on collision. The Argote family, driving behind her, saw it happen. Mike Argote and three other men ran toward the flames and pulled her out. He was burned doing it and began CPR anyway. When he tired, his 14-year-old daughter Ema took over. The family ended up praying around the stranger on the road. Riney's relatives didn't know who the rescuers were until an uncle found a Facebook post. Her parents, Marjohn and Kevin, later founded the Kenli Foundation in Kerrville. "Strangers ran toward the fire," Marjohn Riney said. "We exist to find more people like them." The first year drew four applicants. This year drew 451. Ema graduated high school this spring, and the foundation gave her a scholarship too. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Sunny Skyz
Eleven strangers answered her invitation and became friendsThe wedding was off. The booking was still there.
After her engagement ended when her fiancé suffered a medical emergency, Bridget Devaney posted an anonymous invitation on social media, asking women she had never met to join her for a week in Northern Ireland. Her elopement was off, but the booking was still there. Hundreds responded. Eleven signed up, traveling from the United States, Canada and Wales for someone whose face most of them had never seen. "When these women signed up for this trip, they didn't know my name," Devaney told BBC News NI. "They didn't know anything about me." In October, the group visited the Giant's Causeway and the Dark Hedges. On the date once reserved for her wedding, they dressed up for a photoshoot instead. Photographer Rob Dight, who extended her original booking, had shot elopements for more than a decade. During the shoot he learned many of the women had met in person three days earlier. "It was just so wholesome," he said. Weeks later, they are still texting, already planning the next trip.
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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
Weekend fishermen reached the sinking car in under a minuteNo tool to break the glass. So they used the boat.
A group of fishermen pulled a woman from a sinking car at Old Hickory Lake in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, reaching her in under a minute after her vehicle drove into the water at the Shutes Branch Recreation Area. The men fish the lake on weekends and heard the car before they saw it. "We heard this loud motor revving up, and when we looked, this car just come, pooh, popped into the water," Jackie Light said. Cellphone video captured what happened next. The woman was holding the doors closed and did not respond as they knocked on the windows. Nobody had a tool to break the glass, so one of the men used his boat to ram the car until the rear window popped out, and they reached in and pulled her free. They are not calling themselves heroes. "I'm no hero," Ronnie Smythia said. "Just reacting. Not thinking. Just reacting." Read the full story → | |||
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NATURE • Good News Network
All 400 islanders switched off their lights for the birdsEveryone on the island agreed. All 207 of them.
Corvo island went dark for five nights last week, from 9pm until 4am, and every resident had signed off on it. The small island in the Portuguese Azores, home to just over 400 people, cuts its public lighting during the final nights of October to protect young seabirds making their first flight out to sea. Birds like Cory's Shearwater leave the nest at night to dodge predators, but town lights blind them, and disoriented fledglings end up grounded. The Azores host roughly 65% to 75% of the world's breeding population of the species, so the stakes are local and global at once. Since 2019, the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds has run the blackout with the municipal government, and volunteers collect the lost birds, sometimes in cardboard boxes. A survey of 207 residents found unanimous support. More than 30,000 fledglings have been rescued in the Azores since 2015, about 6,000 on Corvo alone. Read the full story → | |||
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NATURE • Smithsonian Magazine
Scientists lost this loris in the 1930s. It never left.Scientists called it possibly extinct. Local rescuers had been healing it for years.
A venomous primate last documented by scientists in the 1930s has been turning up across an Indonesian island, according to a study published in October in the journal Spixiana. The Bangka slow loris was classified as critically endangered and possibly extinct in 2015. The new research shows it was simply "overlooked by science for nearly a century," said co-author Timon Glaw, a conservation biologist. The finding rests on records kept by the Alobi Wildlife Rescue Center on Bangka, which rescued more than 90 of the nocturnal creatures between 2015 and 2025 and released 86. Some were found inside residents' homes and gardens. The loris defends itself by licking glands on its arms, mixing the secretion with saliva to deliver a venomous bite. It had never really left. It was living in people's gardens the whole time, waiting for someone to write it down.
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