25 Uplifting Headlines of the Week – Part 83

Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.

1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week

1. Farm aims to feed a million bumblebees. – Source

2. A 6th-grade teacher wrote, “Invite me to your Harvard graduation!” 21 years later, the student did just that. – Source

3. Indiana teacher out of the hospital after stopping a school shooting. – Source

4. Owner of a California fish market purchases giant octopus; sets it free. – Source

5. Meet the “hero rats” clearing Cambodia’s landmines: It takes humans with metal detectors three to four days to clear explosives from a tennis court-sized area, but for APOPO’s “hero rats”, it’s just 30 minutes. – Source

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6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week

6. Wales to become the first country in the UK to ban smoking in outdoor school spaces, playgrounds, and hospital grounds would bring in restriction by summer 2019, arguing it would protect people from secondhand smoke and “de-normalize” smoking for children and young people. – Source

7. Family finds Qing dynasty vase worth $600,000 in attic shoebox. A French family made the discovery everyone who cleans out their attic secretly hopes for: a priceless work of art overlooked for decades. – Source

8. Medical engineers have built an EpiPen replacement that costs $16 a shot. – Source

9. 89-year-old woman graduates college and is now pursuing another degree. – Source

10. How a group of teenagers convinced the Utah legislature to recognize climate change. – Source

11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week

11. Hawaii is now the 12th state in the country with a law that prohibits therapists from offering so-called “conversion therapy” to minors. The new law, signed by the governor Friday, applies to psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, and marriage and family therapists. –

12. Alabama student who woke up at 4.30am every morning to get a bus to his high school is gifted a car after photos of him making the trek in graduation robes went viral. – Source

13. Anonymous donor gives $10,000 to pay Maine student lunch debts. – Source

14. A brave Sikh police officer protects Muslim boy from Hindu mob, The Express Tribune. – Source

15. Boy saved money for Video Games but donates all $450 to the local food pantry. – Source