[Wildfire Girl]

I figured with as much tragedy in the world, it'd be nice to have a thread devoted just to those Good News Feel Good kinda stories.

[Callace]

Good idea We need that. Now people just need to come spread the good news

[Wildfire Girl]

8-year-old boys save drowning man - Wonderful World- msnbc.com

ADELAIDE, Australia - Two 8-year-old boys in a young lifeguards training program rescued a man who was struggling in the ocean off Australia's east coast. Jake Satherley told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio that he and friend Spencer Jeams saw a middle-aged man having trouble Sunday off Northcliffe beach, in Queensland state. "We saw him put his hand up and saying, 'help, help,' so we went over to him and pulled him on our board," Satherley said Monday. The boys are part of the under-14 lifeguard training program at Northcliffe Life Saving Club. Club president David Shields said he'd never seen a rescue like it. "They really did perform well above their years," he told ABC. "We're just so proud of them and the way they acted instinctively." Nearly 50,000 Australian children ages 5 to 13 are enrolled in junior life saving programs, according to Surf Life Saving Australia.

[vc318]

Karen, what a great idea! I'm going to change the title up a bit just so others understand that this isn't some OT post.

[Wildfire Girl]

Oh please do!

[vc318]

Okay. Thanks.

[sunnykerr]

What a great idea for a thread!!!

And how cool is that little boy to have actually saved someone!

[Wildfire Girl]

Very uplifting. Now we need more happy ending stories.

[sunnykerr]

Wig saves woman from bullet A Missouri woman says her life was saved by a wig woven into her hair. Briana Bonds was sitting in a convenience store parking lot in Kansas City on Wednesday night when her ex-boyfriend approached her car. He told her still loved her but she said she did not return his feelings. Then the woman claims her rejected lover pulled out a gun and started shooting. One bullet shattered the windshield. "And one of them hit the back of my head, and luckily it didn't go through because the back of my weave, my wig cap stopped it and it was hanging in my hair," said Bonds. Police officers who arrested the boyfriend agree that the weave stopped the slug and saved the woman's life. Bonds says she won't be giving up her wig any time soon.

Wig saves woman from bullet - 2/20/09 - Chicago News - abc7chicago.com

This is pretty weird. But, hey, she lived!

[Callace]

go wig! looks prettier than a helmet.

[Wildfire Girl]

OMG a wig? AWESOME little story! LOVE IT

[sunnykerr]

You know some weave company could really take advantage of this story and make a ton of money!

[Callace]

they could. And then that could be another good news article for this thread

[sunnykerr]

Good news bringing species back from the brink As the Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists (MVFN) Big Picture Conservation lecture series continues, the focus will be on some environmental good news species once considered at risk and how they can be brought back from the brink. For this lecture MVFN is pleased to welcome Paula Norlock, Lanark County native and Species at Risk Biologist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources' Kemptville office. We realize the best approach for species at risk is preventing species from falling into this category in the first place, through being good land stewards and caring about the natural world around us. However, species may become at risk due to a variety of underlying causes and combinations of factors such as peculiarities of their biology and habitat requirements, disease, habitat loss, pollution, land cover change, competition or hybridization with alien species, as well as our lack of awareness. Population trends for species at risk are often indicators of the condition of other species and reveal the health of our ecosystems as Bill Crins explained to MVFN in his February lecture "A Stitch in Time: Monitoring Indicator Species to Diagnose Ecosystem Vitality." But what can we do if we miss the prevention boat? We can take action to recover these species at risk to arrest or reverse their decline by removing or reducing the underlying threats and thus improving the likelihood that they will persist in the wild. The good news is that currently, about 80 recovery teams are reviewing biology, habitat requirements and threats to livelihood in an effort to improve the status of endangered and threatened species in the province. Recovery strategies have now been prepared for protection and restoration of the populations of 13 species including mammals (American Badger), birds (Peregrine Falcon, Barn Owl), fish (Redside Dace), turtles (Wood Turtle), salamanders (Jefferson Salamander) and plants (Deerberry, Eastern Flowering Dogwood, Eastern Prairie Fringed-orchid, Engelmann's Quillwort, Few-flowered Club-rush, Ogden's Pondweed, Spotted Wintergreen). The good news continues. Some species such as the Red-shouldered Hawk and Southern Flying squirrel, formerly considered at risk, now seem to have more secure populations.

Good news bringing species back from the brink - News - By Cathy Keddy Perth Local Community News

It sounds to me like nothing is set in stone. But, you know, there's a lot of work being done to redress potential damages.

[sunnykerr]

Dog rescued after plunge through river ice A golden retriever was rescued from the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton Thursday after it broke through thin ice. The dog went through the ice near the river valley trail below the Riverdale neighbourhood while out for a walk around 10 a.m. The dog, named Skipper, paddled in the open, frigid river while its female owner repeatedly cried out its name. Edmonton firefighters used the department's new inflatable "banana boat" to pull the dog out of the river to safety. People walking their dogs along the river trails need to be extra careful during spring break-up, said Fire Capt. Gerrit Neulenkamp. "This time of year everybody should be staying away from the river," he said. "I understand people want to walk their pets and what not. But if they have their pets they should keep them on-leash especially this time of year with the ice being this bad."

Dog rescued after plunge through river ice - World's Cutest Animals News, Photos and Forums

Looks like Skipper really helped saving his own life. Good on him.