Good News Notes: “An ETSU professor is starting a nonprofit to help homeless young adults get on their feet. Huschka House will give 18 to 24 year olds a temporary place to stay and a boost to find work, education and their own place. Social work professor Donna Cherry came up with the idea as…
Month: June 2020
Donny Osmond’s Son Josh Marries Summer Felsted in Backyard Wedding Ceremony
Good News Notes: “Josh Osmond’s wedding is certainly one to remember! Donny Osmond‘s youngest son tied the knot with Summer Felsted on June 12 in an intimate ceremony held at his family’s backyard after his original wedding venue canceled amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Josh, 22, and Summer, 21, opened up about the memorable experience in an…
Baby born on sidewalk outside urgent care unit
Good News Notes: “Skarlette Ruiz smiles as she recaps her son Paulo’s unusual birth story: An urgent arrival on the Urgent Care sidewalk, just steps away from Cox Branson’s front doors. ‘I live about an hour away, so I was really paying attention to the time between my contractions,’ says Ruiz, who lives in Cape…
Asheville nonprofit sets records in the fight against hunger during pandemic
Good News Notes: “Each morning, MANNA FoodBank calls a flurry of activity “organized chaos.” The frenzy peaks to the record-breaking need during the pandemic.” “For months, the staff has shouldered the surging load with a sense of urgency. Last week’s records were staggering. MANNA delivered 615 thousand pounds of food, including 150 thousand pounds of…
Mathew Knowles Wants to Save Lives After Surviving Breast Cancer
Good News Notes: “The first time Mathew Knowles spotted a pinprick-size red dot on his shirt, in July 2019, he didn’t think much of it. Nor the next day, when the music producer and father to superstars Beyoncé and Solange found another spot on his shirt. When it happened a third time, though, Knowles, 68, brought it up to…
Large-scale solar project continues renewable energy growth in the Midwest
Good News Notes: “Over the last 10 years, the U.S. has experienced rapid growth in renewable energy production and now we’re channeling the latest technology and innovation to help us tap into the energy of the 4.6-billion-year-old sun to power us into the future. Since 2008, U.S. installations of solar power projects have grown 35-fold…
Volvo Factory in China Runs on 100% Renewable Energy
Good News Notes: “Volvo Cars continues its march towards being a carbon-neutral manufacturing company by 2025 last week, when it announced that its vehicle assembly plant in Chengdu, China would make the switch to 100% renewable energy. The deal is part of a new energy supply contract that will rely heavily on hydroelectric and solar…
Look: Hawk rescued from netting at Massachusetts golf course
Good News Notes: ” Animal control officers in Massachusetts came to the rescue of a red-tailed hawk that took a night flight to a golf course and ended up tangled in netting. Billerica Animal Control said officers responded to a golf course in the town Sunday night when the bird of prey was spotted trapped in…
Woman hatches ducks from Waitrose eggs
Good News Notes: “A woman has hatched three ducklings called Beep, Peep and Meep from eggs she bought in Waitrose. She said the ducklings would live “a very happy life” with her pet chickens. A Waitrose spokesman said fertilised eggs were safe to eat and “entirely indistinguishable” from normal eggs, unless incubated.” View the whole…
For the first time, San Diego Zoo Safari Park sees echidna ‘puggle’ hatch
Good News Notes: “For the first time in San Diego Zoo history, an echidna baby, commonly referred to as a puggle, has hatched at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Zoo officials say the tiny animal is estimated to have hatched on Feb. 14, 2020. Echidnas only breed once a year, before the mother lays…