What is the Goodness News Blog?
We’re all exposed to bad news every day. Total Business Group wants to offer an antidote to the constant wave of negativity that surrounds us by sponsoring the “Goodness News Blog”- a place to share stories of hope, healing, inspiration, goodwill, and the strength of the human spirit. We’d like to showcase modern-day Good Samaritan stories, [...]
Dedham church holds first annual hymn festival
St. Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 950 East Street, Dedham, MA will be hosting its first annual hymn festival on Sunday, Sept. 25 @ 3:00 PM. This year’s program will feature Irish hymnody spanning 500 years. The program will feature Samantha Gillogly on fiddle and Edward Harkey on guitar. The Festival Choir and Bell Choir of [...]
Young man’s first time back at gymnastics gym after losing leg to cancer
Who could use an inspirational video to brighten their day? If so, the following clip of a young man performing gymnastics for the first time after losing his leg to cancer in 2009 is sure to do the trick. Watch and prepare to be amazed. The young man performing in the video is one [...]
Paramedics make heart-felt detour to take patient to his son’s ballgame
By Lisa Johnson Mandell One of the many things that Jim Orr, of Camus, Wash., had to give up when he was diagnosed with advanced melanoma was coaching his son’s little league team. He stuck with it as long as he could during treatment, but hadn’t been able to attend a game since June. Orr [...]
“Divine Intervention: Weymouth dad’s heroic rescue
By Sue Scheible, Patriot Ledger, Aug. 15, 2011 WEYMOUTH — His wife was screaming, his terrified 12-year-old daughter was in the water and the motor boat was circling her. Bruce Williams told himself to keep calm, then jumped in with one thought in mind: “Keep her from getting hit, save my baby any way I [...]
Rachel’s last fundraiser
By Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, Aug. 10, 2011 Perhaps every generation of geezers since Adam and Eve has whined about young people, and today is no different. Isn’t it clear that in contrast to our glorious selves, kids these days are self-absorbed Facebook junkies just a pixel deep? No, actually that’s wrong at [...]
Inspiring selfless act from child at MLB game
This young man received a baseball souvenir that had been dropped by another little boy at a MLB game. He then felt it was the right thing to do to give the ball back to the first boy. His actions were caught on camera, and he was rewarded by the sportscasters with a Gracie Contract that included four [...]
Boston post office named for Randolph Marine killed in Iraq
BOSTON — A post office in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston has been named for Lance Cpl. Alexander Scott Arredondo, a Randolph Marine who was killed in Iraq. Starting Aug. 8, the post office at 655 Centre St. will be called the “Lance Corporal Alexander Scott Arredondo, United States Marine Corps Post Office Building.” [...]
Human spirit scores huge triumph
How could one not be moved to tears when a young woman entered the U.S. House of Representatives the other evening? She happened to be U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. For those few who don’t who she is, Giffords was shot in the head in January by a gunman who killed six people in Tucson, [...]
Journey comes full circle for a pair of British war brides
By Emily Clark, Wicked Local Plymouth, July 18, 2011 PLYMOUTH — Their paths crisscrossed, linked up and intersected. But they never officially met. They might have passed each other on the Underground in London during one of the countless World War II air raids. Maybe Nellie Louisa Clarke sat on the double-decker bus Selina Fischer [...]
