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📉 President Trump announced he was temporarily taking control of the Washington, D.C. police department and deploying 800 National Guard troops to the city to address crime, despite violent crime in the city being at a 30-year low. (Gifted link)
🛻 Ford announced its plans to start rolling out its new family of affordable electric vehicles in 2027. Featuring a midsize pickup truck with a target starting price of $30,000, the EVs will be assembled at its Louisville, Kentucky plant.
A North Carolina nonprofit is donating hundreds of shoes to middle school students impacted by Hurricane Helene
In anticipation of the back-to-school season, Mountain Hope, a nonprofit in North Carolina, wanted to help students in a part of the state hit hardest by Hurricane Helene.
It held a shoe drive at a local outlet mall to collect 450 pairs of shoes to distribute to students headed back to school at Owen Middle School in Swannanoa. Any monetary donations it received would go toward purchasing shoes in missing sizes.
The nonprofit hoped it could help ease the stress of local families still “working on the basics” and recovering from Helene, almost a year later. It hoped it could help make shoes one less thing families had to consider for the new school year.
Why is this good news?Back-to-school season can cause incredible financial stress on families. For those still making ends meet to recover from the devastation Helene caused, any pressure this shoe drive and initiative can relieve is worth it. Even something as simple as new shoes for a new school year can make a big difference.
The first 3D-printed home made primarily from soil was just constructed in Japan.The housing industry has seen virtually no fundamental innovation in construction methods, materials, or structures for over 50 years, so a Japanese company looked to keep recycling, sustainability, and reduced carbon emissions at the forefront.
A bus driver in Oregon has donated 100 gallons of platelets over 30 years, saving an estimated 400 lives
When he was a young man in the United States Navy, David Schapiro would visit a local blood donation center with his friends in the service and then go out for a beer.
Once he moved to Oregon, he kept up the tradition, donating about every two weeks for nearly three more decades. Now 62 years old and a bus driver in Portland, Schapiro celebrated the donation of his 100th gallon of platelets to the American Red Cross, enough to save over 400 lives.
Schapiro specifically started donating platelets after learning they often help treat cancer patients, which struck a personal cord, since his sister has had cancer three times.
🌱 A Minnesota university gives immigrant students a taste of home.
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Idk about you but I needed that run-down of just everyday people doing good, helping, and making a difference for the people around them. I mean ... cheese?! I love it so much.
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