This series is to spotlight the Light and Love inside humanity, and the wonder and miracles that can be found around us. Please click on the headline to read the full article. ~ESA
HEROS:
- I was rushed to hospital by good samaritan “I also wish to thank Chief Anenih, Alhaji Tukur, the samaritan that rushed me to the hospital, the medical team that battled to save my life and a host of other personalities within and outside the country who, through their visits, calls and prayers have encouraged and strengthened us in our trying moment. We appreciate your show of love.”
- Recovering education for girls hero Yousufzai still strong in mission A Pakistani schoolgirl who underwent reconstructive surgery in Britain after being shot in the head by the Taliban said on Monday she felt much better and was focused on her mission to help others.
- Chris Kyle is an American hero Webb tells Anderson Cooper about Kyle's work with vets who have ptsd, including the man who killed him.
- 'Symbols of hope' Four courageous chaplains aboard the troopship Dorchester.
HELPING HANDS:
- Worker to donate extra cash to charity "The nice people of the city really surprised me. If I accepted the entire donation the number would have reached tens of thousands," said Qin, who smiled for the first time yesterday.
- Good Samaritan reunites Kelowna boy with his family A 17 year old disabled boy was reunited with his family thanks to the help of a Good Samaritan.
- Hometown Hero remodels home for disabled vet This week's Hometown Hero helps remodel the home of a disabled veteran.
- Angel of Hope carnival perfect for kids, raises money for medical bills It aims to provide assistance to Norwood residents who are in need due to a catastrophic medical occurrence.
- Wilmette children to donate to Sandy relief Students raised $53,000 to benefit superstorm victims.
- Bossier elementary 'pays it forward' to Sandy-struck N.J. school Apollo Elementary School in Bossier City is participating in a month-long project to collect funds for a class trip for New Jersey elementary school students.
- Wichita-area fire departments donate equipment to volunteer firefighters in Paraguay Armed with makeshift tools and inadequate safety equipment, Paraguay’s roughly 5,000 volunteer firefighters happily accept second-hand gear.
- Hall Teacher's Cancer Diagnosis Spurs Dozens to Donate Hair More than 40 students, a teacher, and a parent participated in Friday's Pantene Beautiful Lengths hair drive at Hall High School in West Hartford.
- The Good Samaritan He changed the tire quickly and was on his way. He explained to my wife that last week his wife had a flat tire and a stranger helped her, so this was the right thing to do.
- Pay It Forward seeks to Clean Up Corning The local Pay It Forward group of volunteers have been making progress improving the looks of downtown Corning.
- Pay It Forward, Allison Tofflemire This week’s Pay It Forward introduces us to a woman who has dedicated herself to helping those with special needs.
- Vining selected as state “Hospital Hero” Lynne Vining, nurse manager of the medical intensive care unit, has been chosen as a statewide “Hospital Hero” by the Alabama Hospital Association for her contributions to health care.
- National award for NHS Hero nurse Sarah Morris The patient who nominated her praised her “hard work, care and attention”, adding: “She is so pleasant, helpful and reassuring and goes more than that extra mile.”
- Donate eyes and give the gift of sight to others Eye donation appears to be picking up with people who never approached an eye bank coming forward to donate eyes when someone died in the family.
- Blood Drive Urges More Minorities to Donate There is a very high demand for more African-American donors because of unique antibodies that help fight life-threatening diseases, such as sickle cell.
- Children’s Miracle Network Bowl-A-Thon raises more than $8,400 The Children’s Miracle Network of Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare’s (FSLH) Foundation held its 22nd annual Bowling for Miracles Bowl-A-Thon, raising more than $8,400 for Women’s and Children’s services at FSLH.
- Hope Chest Resale Supercenter Through this thrift store, we are raising awareness of human trafficking in the United States while also raising money for anti-trafficking programs.
- Pay it forward Students throughout the school were asked to write down an act of kindness that they performed or that someone performed for them.
- St. Edmond students set to Pay It Forward Students began an effort Friday to start a "chain reaction" by committing to doing good deeds.
MIRACLES/WONDERS:
- Bubble Wrap Saves Falling Construction Worker In Boston Just one week after Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, a Boston construction worker was saved from a gruesome fate when his 30-foot fall was broken by the stuff.
- Miracle escape for couple who ploughed through Ashley Heath crash barrier An elderly couple had a miracle escape this morning after their car ploughed through a crash barrier on a busy roundabout and ended up down an embankment, just yards from the busy A31.
- “Miracle” more people not injured in Chelsea gas explosion London Fire Brigade has said it was a “miracle” more people were not injured during a gas explosion at a block of flats in Chelsea.
- Miracle mum died twice A mum has thanked hospital staff who saved her life twice after she suffered pregnancy complications.
- Mother calls incident: 'Miracle at the Y' The miraculous piece of all of that, as I understand it, is that my heart went immediately back into rhythm," said Reverend Curry.
- Dawn Keim, Texas Mom, Hears Her Son's Voice For The First Time Little else can compare with the experience of hearing your 8-year-old son for the first time in your life.
- Family of 13 escapes fire on Cleveland’s east side All 13 people, seven adults and six kids, got out safely. The youngest person inside was a 6-month-old.
- Alabama boy rescued from bunker eating, laughing He played with a toy dinosaur and laughed with family and friends. His school district planned a birthday celebration, and his classmates returned to kindergarten.
- Wedding Ring Lodged Behind Bathroom Vanity Found 40 Years Later The old saying "Better late than never" rang especially true for one Cincinnati couple, Joyce and Paul Werner, who celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary Sunday after finally being reunited with Joyce's wedding band.
- Ohio man recovers stolen 300-year-old family Bible The Bible, written in German Gothic script and containing the handwritten dates of births, deaths and marriages for seven generations of Tim Shier's family.
- Brothers of Paterson WWII hero welcome Purple Heart's dramatic return What took place between World War II and now is a story that meanders through many corners of American life, from a painful divorce and an accidental death in a house fire, to the opening of a long-dormant safe-deposit box and then a dogged search for the sailor’s relatives.
- From Bullets to Bistros: the Mexico City Miracle A new network of security cameras, and a focus on community police-work and patrols, have helped entrepreneurs, restaurant owners, and young professionals out of a decade of stalled urban renewal programs, and fostered the emergence of a vibrant nightlife.
- Weird Underwater Waves Spotted from Space Below the whitecaps breaking on the sea surface, so-called internal waves ripple through the water.
HOPE/PEACE:
- Rescued Boy Watching Cartoons in Hospital, Birthday Bash in the Works The 5-year-old held hostage in a nearly week-long standoff in Alabama is cheerfully watching Spongebob and posting sticky notes on everyone around him at the hospital as organizers plan a birthday party for him so big it may take place at a high school football stadium.
- Housing brings hope to homeless in northeast Tampa The 24-unit apartment complex was refurbished to provide permanent housing along with mental health care and case management for two dozen chronically homeless people.
- Good Samaritan Boys Ranch Doesn't See Service as a Sentence Treatment facilities like Lives Under Construction provide a safe place for troubled youth.
- Triple amputee vet takes on skydiving, alligator wrestling When CBS News met Todd Love last year, he was learning how to kayak, and that's no small accomplishment, because Love is a triple amputee.
- Battlers: My hero, my son Dylan underwent five hours of brain surgery and then seven weeks of radiation five days a week. During this time he would go to his 8am appointments and then return to school for the rest of the day. He never had a day off school apart for the ten days after surgery.
- Devine Intervention: A Girl’s Last Hope Emmie Hood can’t wait to show her new sister her new bedroom.
- Washington Heights library gets book returned — 55 years later A book was returned to the Fort Washington branch in Washington Heights. It contained a check for $100 and the checkout date was April 1958.
- Spinal Cord Parlysis: New Hope A one of a kind trial could change the face of spinal cord research forever.
- U.S. Moves Toward Near-Zero Emission Coal-Fired Power Plant The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that Phase II of an agreement with FutureGen Industrial Alliance has begun, taking the country one step closer to making commercial-scale carbon capture and storage technology -- and dramatically reduced emissions from coal-fired power plants -- a reality.
- Obama peace agenda "urgent" on Israel visit President Barack Obama will bring an "urgent" peacemaking agenda to Israel on his upcoming visit, focusing on the region and the resumption of talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
FURRY FRIENDS:
- Budweiser Clydesdale foal is named Hope The three-week-old star of Budweiser's Super Bowl ad now has a name: Hope.
- 'Four-Legged Miracles' Authors Brad Steiger, Sherry Steiger On Amazing Dog Stories "If a miracle is something that happens without physical explanation and seems to defy everything we know about a particular aspect of our world, then these are miracles," said Brad Steiger.
- Loyal dog helps searchers find dead NJ hiker A loyal but frightened Labrador retriever stayed close to his owner after he died while hiking in a nature preserve, helping a search team find the body in the dark.
- Parrot dies a hero's death as he saves family in blaze A PET parrot has been hailed a guardian angel after giving its own life to save a Llanelli teenager from a bedroom blaze.
- The Brilliance of the Dog Mind New research suggests that canines are indeed quite bright, and in some ways unique.
- Oldest Known Wild Bird Hatches Healthy Chick The oldest known wild bird in the United States has hatched a chick — for the sixth year in a row.
- Super Bowl Clydesdale “Brotherhood” Star Raised In Booneville The Clydesdale “Brotherhood” Super Bowl commercial was a hit; it featured the newest foal that was born at the Bonneville, Missouri Warm Springs Ranch.
- Chris P Bacon, Disabled Pig, Charms With Tiny Wheelchair After Escaping Death A baby pig born without the use of his back legs has set the Internets on fire this week: His cuteness is just almost too much to bear.
- Internet cat stars scratch the surface for fame From Henri the existentialist to Maru the box addict, Internet cat stars pounce on fame.
- Coco the Luging (sledding) Cat! Coco the Canadian Luging (sledding) Cat hitting the homemade snow luge track.
BUSINESS:
- Local dentists donate time for kids health Dentists and hygienists from around the valley donated their time to provide free dental screening for the Ridge View students.
- Non-profit offers hope for abandoned Palm Beach County homes Nonprofit stepping in to relieve owners, bank, neighbors.
- St. Charles School students pay it forward The financial services organization provided a donation of $500 - $50 to each class at St. Charles, which the students would then be expected to grow into a larger sum to be donated to charity. The students have managed to turn that $500 donation into $5,000, thanks to some creative thinking.
- Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway to donate $1.1 million to UG The donation will be allocated with $500,000 going to local charities, $500,000 going to non-host schools and the remaining $100,000 going to the Parks & Recreation District of Wyandotte County.
- Fort Gordon's Knights of Columbus donate food to charity Members of Fort Gordon’s Knights of Columbus council delivered more than 3,200 pounds of food Tuesday to help Catholic Social Services.
- Gus* Modern And Its Retailers Donate More Than 2500 Pounds Of Food To Local Food Banks Gus* estimates that its participating retailers collected over 2500 pounds of food during the promotion.
- Gingerbread Lane children donate to Humane Society of SLC The children and staff of Gingerbread Lane, a child care facility located on Northwest Airoso Boulevard in Port St. Lucie, opened their hearts recently and donated funds to help the homeless pets cared for at the Humane Society of St. Lucie County.
- Local Erie Insurance Agents Donate to Hudson Valley Charity Erie Insurance agents from Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties are donating $1,000 to a Hudson Valley charity.
- Cone Health workers pay it forward The follow-up instructions were simple: Use the money to help your community.
- Capstone & New Horizon Academy Donate Books to Reach Out and Read February has been designated as “I Love to Read” month and Capstone, a leading publisher of children’s books and digital products and services, has announced its partnership with New Horizon Academy, one of the nation’s most successful and respected child care providers, to donate children’s books to the nonprofit organization Reach Out and Read.
- Senior Center Staff Donate Trikes To Tulsa Preschoolers Managers from Senior Star Living put their teamwork skills to the test during an annual meeting and built bicycles and scooters for all of the kids at the Instituto Bilingue Guadalupano, a preschool program through the diocese of Tulsa.
- Dallas Lawyers at The Law Offices of W.T. Johnson Donate to the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas The donation will help the nonprofit provide grants and programs that prepare high school graduates to succeed in postsecondary education, move people out of poverty and improve the quality of life for those in Dallas.
- Growers to donate $5M for WSU research efforts Washington's cherry and stone fruit growers have decided to give $5 million to Washington State University to support expanded research and enhance WSU research orchards in Prosser and Wenatchee.
- Bank, officers donate $100K to OU-L, Pickerington scholarships Fairfield National Bank recently made a pledge of $75,000, to be paid in the next five years, to fund local scholarships through the Fairfield National Bank Scholarship Fund.
- Girl Scout Troop to Donate Permanent Trappe Christmas Tree The cookie sales from Troop 7254 will go towards the purchase of a permanent tree for the Speaker's House.
- 'Dine to Donate' organized at Outback Steakhouse to raise funds for Parkland School District Patrons can enjoy their meal and the school district receives 10 percent of the evenings receipts.
- Donate to Teens for Jeans, Get Discount on Jeans at Aeropostale Millions of people are helping homeless teens across the nation get a pair of jeans.
- Goodwill Big Bend launches local Donate movement The Donate Movement is a public awareness campaign to emphasize the impact that donating clothing and other household goods can have on communities and the planet.
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY:
- 3D-Printed Human Embryonic Stem Cells Created for First Time Imagine if you could take living cells, load them into a printer, and squirt out a 3D tissue that could develop into a kidney or a heart. Scientists are one step closer to that reality, now that they have developed the first printer for embryonic human stem cells.
- Earth to have a close encounter of the asteroid kind The small asteroid, named 20-12 D-A 14, will pass within 17,000 miles of the Earth on Feb. 15.
- NASA Probe Snaps Photos of Potential 'Comet of the Century' A NASA spacecraft has captured its first photos of comet ISON, an icy wanderer that some scientists say could dazzle as a "comet of the century" when it swings through the inner solar system later this year.
- Monster Saturn Storm Fizzled by Choking On Own Tail Like a monstrous snake biting its own tail, a giant storm on Saturn raged until it wrapped completely around the ringed planet and ran into its own wake, causing it to fizzle out.
- A remote-controlled device to stop severe headache pain Most sufferers of brutal migraine and cluster headaches are all too familiar with the warning signs of an approaching attack, but a California biotech company says it has created a device that can potentially stop the crippling pain as easily as flicking a switch.
- Fossil of Flying Dino-Age Reptile Found Scientists discovered the fossilized bones of a new type of pterosaur, a flying dinosaur-age reptile, which lived about 68 million years ago and had a wingspan of nearly 10 feet (3-meters).
- Origins of the Olive Tree Revealed The olive was first domesticated in the Eastern Mediterranean between 8,000 and 6,000 years ago, according to new research.
- Largest Prime Number Discovered The largest prime number has been discovered — and it's 17,425,170 digits long. The new prime number crushes the last one discovered in 2008, which was a paltry 12,978,189 digits long.
SPORTS:
- Banned no longer: Soccer brings joy, hope to war-ravaged Mali The television screens are switching back to life in time for people to witness an important national event.
- Racers climb NYC's Empire State People from around the world are taking part in a vertical race — up 86 flights of stairs at the Empire State Building. That's a total of 1,576 steps, starting at the lobby and finishing at the observation deck.
- Ravens player to donate brain to BU for CTE research With the announcement that Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk will donate his brain to the medical research program at Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, BU has demonstrated its credentials as a leader in brain damage research.
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT:
- #bringtaylortololo brings hope for girl battling cancer Three Omaha girls hope to catch Taylor Swift’s attention with a YouTube video encouraging her to visit their 10-year-old friend who is battling cancer.
- Fans celebrate Yunho’s birthday on Twitter + donate rice Yunho’s fans have a famous history of donating incredible amounts to charity, and they didn’t pass up the chance to donate on his birthday.
- Avicii and Ash Pournouri donate 2 million meals through the FEED Foundation The Grammy® nominated duo of Swedish DJ/producer Avicii and manager/producer Ash Pournouri announced today their donation of 2 million meals through the FEED Foundation.
- Climbing 'Spider-Man' puts on show for Cuba kids The French "Spider-Man" continues to dazzle Havana with his unassisted, death-defying climbs.
- Exhibitions plumb artistic responses to disaster As he began cleaning up, he became intrigued by the transformation of a series of old family slides into cloud-like watercolors with human figures still discernible.
- Virtual Superpower Experience Increases Helpful Attitude Experiencing superpowers in a virtual environment can turn you into a do-gooder in real life.
LIFESTYLE:
- How One Woman's Birthday Kindness Sparked a Movement Robyn Bomar says God has used it to reach people who may not have ordinarily given it a chance.
- Single or Attached: Here are 8 Ways to Celebrate Love This Valentine’s Day Regardless of your status, Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love, so why not share it?
- Restaurant gives family discount for well-behaved kids Servers at an Italian restaurant in Poulsbo, Washington, offered a family a $4 discount for their "well behaved kids" and took $4 off the bill.
- Droves of users take breaks of several weeks or more, study finds "For some, the central calculation is how they spend their time. For others, it's more of a social reckoning as they ask themselves, 'What are my friends doing and thinking, and how much does that matter to me?'”
- Get more done by bribing yourself with different rewards Tempting yourself with the right kind of reward system can bring back the motivational mojo.
- 7-minute essay slows the loathe in marriages couples who spent just seven minutes every few months writing short essays about their recent fights reported being less unhappy a year later than similar couples who didn’t do the assignments.
- How Can Shift Workers Lose Weight? Men and women who work in shifts who want to lose weight have to get creative, because traditional weight-loss strategies may not work for them as well as they do for the nine-to-five crowd.
- What are the cheapest weeks for hotels in top U.S. cities? For those who have greater flexibility, here's a chance to maximize your travel dollars over the course of 2013.
RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY:
- Church, dentists partner with ministry to provide free dental care During 22 years of service, thousands of needy North Carolinians have received free medical and dental care.
- Ex-Anorexic Christian Woman: The Battle Is in the Mind; God's Image Is Diverse After penning her struggle with anorexia as a teenager in her first book, Jena Morrow received such an overwhelming response from men and women alike that she wrote a devotional to help individual with eating disorders and body image issues find hope and healing in the midst of their battle.
- God loves you Today, more than ever, many are searching for truth and something to believe in.
- How to Talk to Children About God They want you to tell them what kind of story they are living in right now.
- Open Doors Encourages Prayer for Crucial March 4 Elections in Kenya “We are at a defining moment because these are the first elections under the new constitution with its very many new structures and elective and nominative posts.”
- The iChurch cometh: Bible reading goes digital Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized Bible study when he invented the movable-type printing press in 1440. But today another change is transforming the way many people read and even preach: the digital age.
- Texas church keeps worshippers in driver's seat Engine running, just roll down the window and talk. Volunteers will pray with, or for, motorists.
- Who is this God? I‘ve been reading some of these ridiculous articles and comments the so called Christians versus atheist debate and honestly feel you are all missing the point.
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