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Thursday, Nov 12 · Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
He heard screams, jumped a fence, and saved two menHe heard screaming from the other side of a fence. He jumped it.
A merchant marine cadet pulled two men from a swimming pool near his home in Foster City, California, after hearing screams from an apartment complex. Zion Jerge, who trains at the Cal Poly Maritime Academy, jumped a fence and dove in. "When I arrived at the pool, I saw the father floating face down," he said. He pulled the older man out first, then heard more screaming and realized a second man was lying at the bottom of the deep end. That was the father's 25-year-old son, the one he had been trying to save. Jerge brought him up unconscious and began CPR until water came out of his lungs and the son was breathing again. Police and fire crews arrived when the work was already done. The son went to the hospital conscious. Jerge later received a lifesaving commendation for what the Foster City Police Department called "a bias to action when others needed him most." Read the full story → | |||
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MOTIVATIONAL • Good News Network
At 84, her piano lifts the whole nursing homeThe piano got her through recovery. Then she came back for everyone else's.
Bonnie Fay, 84, plays piano regularly at Bryn Mawr Village nursing home in Pennsylvania, the same place that treated her twice. She arrived the first time paralyzed by Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare disorder in which the immune system attacks the body's own nerves, and faced a long recovery. The second stay followed about seven orthopedic surgeries. Through all of it, she kept returning to the instrument she had studied since age 7. "I found that the piano was very good for me," Fay said. "It lifted my spirits tremendously." Somewhere in those hard weeks she promised herself she would come back and play. Now staff pick her up and bring her in. Residents pull their chairs close, and some linger afterward to talk. When medical issues kept her away for about 10 months, people kept asking when she would return. "That tells you what she means to this place," said Charles Light of Bryn Mawr Village. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Sunny Skyz
After 16 quiet years, customers are lining out the doorSixteen years of barely hanging on. Then a stranger filmed it.
Greek's Grill, a family restaurant in Chandler, Arizona, had spent 16 years quietly struggling to stay open. Then a content creator named Robert Schrott walked in with a camera. Schrott makes videos about family-owned businesses, and after meeting the owner, Fred Najour, 72, he posted the restaurant's story on Instagram. It passed one million views almost immediately. Within days, customers were lining up out the door. The rush got big enough that Najour's son, Nathan, had to call in extra help. Even a family friend, Anthony Cyrus, showed up to wash dishes and run food to tables, taking on whatever needed doing. Schrott also launched a fundraiser, which has raised more than $18,000, with plans to surprise Najour once it hits its goal. "I just want to see him happy," Schrott said. "I just want to have him be able to not struggle anymore." The restaurant that nearly closed now has a problem it never expected: too many new faces to seat. Read the full story → | |||
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PROGRESS • Reasons to be Cheerful
No machine, no screen. Just 80 cents saving mothers' livesNo wiring. No screen. Just a bag that tells the truth.
A plastic pouch that costs about 80 cents is cutting maternal deaths across Africa, according to the New York Times. The maternal drape hangs beneath a woman after childbirth and measures blood loss by volume, letting health workers spot postpartum hemorrhage before it turns deadly. Paired with standard treatments, the method reduced deaths from such bleeding by roughly two-thirds. "The drape is not an A.I. thing, it's the absolute opposite," said Dr. Hadiza Galadanci, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. "It's a simple, simple intervention that can solve our problems." The appeal is partly that it asks almost nothing of a busy ward: no wiring, no screen, no training beyond reading a number. A health worker glances at the bag and knows. The lives it saves come not from a breakthrough machine, but from finally measuring something people had long tried to guess. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
Students built care kits for rescue dogs and veteransThe drive became a classroom competition. They asked to do it again.
Students at The Summit Country Day School in Cincinnati spent Veterans Day collecting supplies for rescue dogs and the veterans who will take them home. They partnered with the local chapter of Veteran Companion Animal Services, gathering food, leashes and other essentials for pairings still to come. At a Wednesday assembly, veteran Craig Gearns arrived with his rescue dog, Cookie, to thank the children in person. Cookie, for her part, attended the assembly as the guest of honor and the subject of considerable attention. Last year the students assembled 10 care kits and turned the drive into a classroom competition, which apparently went well enough that they asked to do it again. "They are so enthused to be helping out both dogs and veterans," said Vickie Lassandro of VCAS Cincinnati, "and we are happy to see how proud they were of last year's donation drive." The kits go to families welcoming a rescue dog into the house. Read the full story → | |||
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