Country Music News

Contests

[empowerlocal_ad localstories]

Facebook

Top News

Trending

daily-dose-of-uplift-2

Sharing the Good Stuff

A small school district in Ohio set up a microphone in the middle of the hallway, and invited students to share something GOOD that’s happened to them recently.  Like, “someone told me that my hair looked really pretty” . . . and “there’s a new girl at school today, and I think I made a new friend.” They created a montage of the responses and posted it on social media.
daily-dose-of-uplift-2

Purple Heart Returned

A Purple Heart is one of the most prestigious awards a member of the military can receive . . . and an official in Illinois just helped the family of a World War Two veteran named James Bennett get it back. James died in 1990 at the age of 76, and he’d apparently left the award in a safe deposit box, which was marked as abandoned.  Now, it has…
daily-dose-of-uplift-2

“This is the best life”

A family in Ohio adopted a now-four-year-old boy just one year ago, and they’ve noticed a big change.  He was timid and withdrawn before, and would barely speak.  As an infant, he suffered cardiac arrest due to malnutrition . . . and that left him with developmental challenges. Now, he laughs easily, and his confidence is building.  And he caught them by surprise while they were filming themselves stringing…