Feel Good Friday

NPR: “The Senate has voted 97-2 to approve a bill that will virtually ensure permanent funding for rescue workers whose work after the Sept. 11 attacks caused health problems.” This is a feel good story that also gave us a feel good photo.

+ “Dale Schroeder lived simply for his entire life. He grew up poor, never married or had kids, and worked as a carpenter at the same company for 67 years. He owned just two pair of jeans and drove a rusty old Chevrolet truck.” He also saved $3 million to put 33 strangers through college.

+ New law lets Pennsylvania foster kids attend college tuition-free.

+ The Winners of the 2019 iPhone Photography Awards.

+ Neighbors Form Human Chain to Block ICE from Detaining Father and Son.

+ “A 73-year-old man who was stranded in the remote Oregon high desert for four days with his two dogs was rescued when a long-distance mountain biker discovered him near death on a dirt road”

+ Baby born on 7-Eleven Day at 7:11 p.m., weighs 7 lbs., 11 oz., gets 7-Eleven college fund.

+ Hair stylist carries her red salon chair to the homeless. “If fear is contagious, why can’t kindness be?”