Jul 19 2008
RamblerHappy Saturday! Good News for July 19, 2008
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Here we are at another weekend. It sounds so cliche, but the weeks go so fast. There is no shortage of bad news…but here are a few good news stories I found that may help raise your spirits and moral a little bit! Enjoy!
Arts, chess part of plan to boost school scores
Two schools in Kentucky have been chosen to receive $1.2 million to hire more teachers and offer chess, violin, foreign language and art instruction to their students. The extra funds will go to two elementary schools to improve test scores.
The $1.2 million will come from the district’s general fund budget. Both schools also receive federal Title 1 funds. These funds are set aside for schools with high populations of low-income students.
All grades will have Spanish lessons; kindergarten through second-grade will have violin lessons; and third through fifth grade students will have keyboard lessons. Students also will be offered after-school tutoring in arts and humanities.
Kenya Village Gets Clinic From Two Brothers it Helped
Residents of a tiny Kenyan village sold their chickens and cattle to buy Milton Ochieng’s $900 plane ticket. They sent him to Dartmouth College but they told him they expected something in return.
Eight years later, Ochieng is a Vanderbilt University Medical School graduate and is preparing for his residency. Meanwhile, in his home village of Lwala, a clinic he and younger brother Fred established cares for about 100 patients a day.
Before this clinic was created sick villagers often had to be carried for miles just to get to a paved road. The clinic was opened in April 2007. The first year the clinic treated 20,000 patients at a cost of about $100,000.
“There’s such a sense of love and people feeling they’ve gained so much from the health center,” he says. “It keeps me going. … It makes you realize how great it is to be a doctor, how great it is to be serving humanity.”
Married Couples Who Play Together Stay Together
Research from the University of Denver is supporting the idea that married couples need to find moments to be together that are free of financial, family or other stresses. Just having fun together is not an indulgence!
The correlation between having fun together and marital happiness is high.
Apparently this is something many couples already know. Scarborough Sports Marketing of New York (which collects consumer information about professional sports) found that more than 3.9 million married women attended a major-league game from August 2006 through September 2007. Compare this with 2.5 million for professional basketball, football and hockey combined.
It’s a circle of self fulfillment. People in happy relationships tend to generate these activities and as they generate these activities, it keeps a relationship strong and healthy and happy.
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Those are some great good news stories.
Don’t hear enough decent things amidst all the doom and gloom, thanks!
I really liked how uplifting you posts are. I really like the one about the Kenyan brothers. Gratefulness and integrity!!
I also liked the marriage one. Just confirmed what I thought and experience in my own.
Thank you!!
Oh I think that is absolutely true. if you don’t have some sort of fun activities with your spouse then they might look elsewhere. you need to separate yourselves from the kids and the bills and work, and just go out together and just have fun.