Carrying on with the second collection of good news links:
1.) This one comes from Miskolc, Hungary, where a bus driver saw an elderly woman in the process of being robbed. He stopped and got off of the bus in order to intervene and save the elderly woman. A brave thing to do indeed! He then escorted the woman onto his bus and carried on with his route. Police later identified and arrested the assailant.
2.) A nice simple story from Georgia about a young girl scraping her knee and her mother running into the nearest QuikTrip with her in order to grab some ice water and clean her up a bit. She went to the cashier to purchase the waters and ask if he happened to have any bandages they could use to clean up the girl. Dedrick, the cashier, went straight to change his gloves, opened a brand new box of band aids off the shelf and a tube of neosporin, cleaned up the girl's wound, made her laugh and smile, and didn't charge them a penny. Good job, sir, much respect!
A mother in Newnan, Georgia, shared a touching story on Facebook after a cashier went above and beyond to help her daughter.
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3.) A teacher in Alabama was helping to clean up after the graduation ceremony at the high school where he teaches when he noticed one of his students was still there, alone. The student looked upset and out of his element, so the teacher approached him and asked what was wrong and where his parents were. He had no one with him and no ride home from his graduation. The teacher immediately offered him a ride and, filled with emotion at learning no one had come to support him at his graduation, offered the young student lunch on the way. They stopped at the Cheesecake Factory and had a great lunch, not talking about why his family weren't there to support him or asking questions about his home life, but just celebrating the student and enjoying the fact that it was graduation day. The teacher then posted about the experience on his facebook page, explaining that it just didn't sit right with him, and suddenly donations started to fly in to help the student. As of a few days ago the donations had reached more than $5,000! The teacher, who has since been giving the student a ride to and from his new job each day, showed the student all of the positive comments that had been left for him and says he plans to surprise the student with a car of his own so he can be more independent. The teacher says the student is looking to goto college in the near future, but has more immediate financial concerns that make working a priority for the time being.
A high school teacher in Alabama took a student to lunch after learning the teen had no one to support him at his graduation ceremony and has raised more than $5,000 for his future.
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4.) A newspaper delivery driver named Greg Dailey in New Jersey has become a hero to some 120 seniors who have been struggling during this virus to get basic necessities at the grocery stores. one day while delivering papers, an elderly customer asked him if he could throw the paper nearer to the house so she could retrieve it easier and with less risk to herself. It then occurred to Dailey that, if she was this concerned about going outside to get the paper, then how was she fairing getting basic supplies and groceries? With that he offered his help to run to the grocery store for her to pick up whatever she needed, no delivery fee and no extra costs attached. She agreed but asked if he wouldn't mind asking her neighbor across the street from her if she needed help, as well. The neighbor quickly took him up on the offer, as well, and so Dailey decided to extend the offer to all of his vulnerable customers, writing a note and placing it inside each of his newspapers on his delivery rounds. It said he was Greg Dailey and if anyone was having trouble getting to the grocery stores or getting basic supplies he was happy to go on their behalf at no additional charge. He has now grown to over 120 customers, even some outside of his newspaper delivery scope, and has made over 500 trips to the grocery store for his customers, getting help from his daughter to shop. He has no plans to stop delivering, even when the covid crisis is over.
5.) Lastly, a bit of Americana for you Americans. Portland State University student Madisen Hallberg was being filmed at the middle of campus for the university's 2020 commencement ceremony as she sang the national anthem. The university put out the final version of that video
here, but what is remarkable is that during the shoot a stranger walked by and asked if he could join her in singing the national anthem. It turned out that the stranger was, in fact, a classically trained opera singer, musician and pianist named Emmanuel Henreid, who goes by the stage name of "Onry" and is presently working with the Portland Opera. The result was a rather stunning duet: