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Published on Leave a comment on Tory Was Battling Drug Addiction And In Jail When One Chance Led Her To A ‘New Life’

By Herlyn Kaur - ABC July 2020

THIS IS EXCEPTIONAL, AND THAT'S BECAUSE COMPASSION IS PLAYING A ROLE - WITH PRACTICAL APPLICATION. THIS IS A GOOD BALANCE. IT IS UNFAIR HOW MANY CHILDREN AND TEENS ARE BROUGHT UP. LET'S GIVE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT AND EMBRACE HER STORY - IT'S ONE OF HOPE. HERE IS SOMEONE WHO TURNED HER STORY AROUND WITH SOME HELP AND OTHERS WILL FOLLOW. WELL DONE AUSSIES!

Tory Puntigam-Locke has come a long way from where she was only a year ago. The 27-year-old was addicted to drugs and serving a prison sentence at Perth's Melaleuca Women's Prison at that point.

"My family has been quite dysfunctional, there's been violence, there's been addiction throughout my family," she said. "I fell pregnant at 17 and I was made to abort that baby and I self-harmed."

Young Woman Forsakes Meth And Finds New Future In WA Reabilitation Centre - Restored

A stint in a mental institution followed but things did not improve after Ms Puntigam-Locke got out. "I was looking for something to escape all that guilt and pain and for a while nothing really worked and then I found meth," she said.…

Published on Leave a comment on Former Musician Turns to Gardening In The Pandemic – Others Are Doing This!

ABC Wide Bay / By Eliza Goetze July 2020

Up until earlier this year, Luen Free was typically in a dimly lit nightclub, entertaining.

But with the Coronavirus pandemic putting her and many others out of work, she is using the time to pursue her other passion: Organic Farming.

And with the pandemic leaving fewer backpackers who typically go 'WWOOFing' — volunteering on organic farms — Australians are being encouraged to help out on home soil. Soaking up knowledge.

WWOOF stands for Willing Workers on Organic Farms, a worldwide movement that has connected thousands of volunteers — many of them travellers — with farmers who offer food and a bed in exchange for gardening know-how.

From DJ To Permaculture During Pandemic

G'Day Farm co-founder, Greg Dixon, said he and his wife Dionne would struggle to run the farm smoothly without WWOOFers.

They welcome a small number of regular volunteers, who donate a few hours each week, as well as visitors like Luen and her husband Patch who stay for a week or more. "Each WWOOFer we've had, they've been great — a huge help," Mr Dixon said.

WWOOF Australia manager, Traci Wilson-Brown, said border restrictions meant fewer backpackers, who typically make up 80 per cent of WWOOF volunteers — but more Australians were taking their pandemic passion for gardening to the next level.…

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Published on 2 Comments on Baby Deer Refused To Leave Side of Man Who Rescued It – So Cute!

This Is An Endearing Story By Terry Turner In November 2015

After he saved a baby deer’s life, he had a hard time returning it to the wild–the little thing refused to leave his side.

A Lithuanian outdoorsman happened upon a doe as she gave birth to twin fawns. He hung around to watch the baby deer take their first few steps, and that’s when he noticed something was wrong.

Baby Deer With Rescuer Darius Sasnauskas

One of the fawns had an injured leg, causing the mother to instinctively abandon it.

Darius Sasnauskas couldn’t leave the little deer alone in the woods, so he brought it home to rehabilitate and release it.

Like the Australians did for this lamb, he made a leg brace from an oatmeal box and worked to get the fawn back on its feet.

The fawn quickly settled into life with his new family, sticking by Sasnauskas’ side and playing with their two big dogs.

When the fawn was ready to return to the woods, Sasnauskas hiked out to find a doe who might adopt the baby. It took several tries because the fawn didn’t want to leave the man who’d “fawned” over it for so long.…

Published on Leave a comment on Undersea Robot Delivered 100,000 Heat-Resistant Baby Corals to the Great Barrier Reef

THIS IS AN ARTICLE I FOUND FROM DECEMBER 2018. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW OUR BARRIER REEF IS NOW AFTER THE 2019/2020 SUMMER. I HAVE A FEW DVDs OF UNDERWATER LIFE IN AUSTRALIA BY A CINEMATOGRAPHER DAVID HANNAN - THEY ARE SUPERB AND VERY RELAXING. WE IN AUSTRALIA OUGHT TO INVEST IN MORE VIDEOS LIKE HIS IN CASE OUR WONDERFUL REEFS AFFECTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE CANNOT BE RESTORED. HOWEVER, WE CAN TRY OUR BEST TO LOOK AFTER THEM AS WELL, HEY?

In a world first, a small robot was deployed to plant thousands of baby coral in a mass repopulation project for the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

The LarvalBot is a briefcase-sized underwater drone that recently dispersed over 100,000 microscopic heat-resistant coral larvae across damaged segments of reef.

Robot Makes World-First Baby Coral Delivery To Great Barrier Reef

In a bid to protect the marine life from climate change, the coral larvae was derived from species that have been shown to be especially tolerant of warmer waters. Scientists will monitor the reefs during the coming months to ensure that the larvae grows properly – and if it proves to be successful, researchers plan on developing the LarvalBot so that it can deploy millions more coral larvae in the future.…

Published on Leave a comment on A New Innovation For Recycling Glass Instead Of Landfill. Guess What It Is?

YES WHEN YOU READ ABOUT THIS, YOU WILL DISCOVER HOW IT WILL HELP A LOT OF PEOPLE AND CUT SOME EXPENSES. THIS IS A BIT LIKE THE STORY OF MAKING CRATES ETC FROM PLASTIC BOTTLES, PUTTING THEM TO USE FOR A GOOD PURPOSE. THIS IDEA COULD TAKE OFF WORLD-WIDE, AND AGAIN 'PUT US ON THE MAP' FOR A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. AND ALSO, IT COULD POSSIBLY ENCOURAGE MORE GROCERIES IN GLASS JARS INSTEAD OF CANS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT LANDFILL. I WISH FOR THOSE - IT'S MUCH HEALTHIER.

Rather Than End Up in a Landfill, Non-Recyclable Glass May Soon Be a Cheaper New Ingredient in Concrete
From Good News Network

Australian researchers have developed an exciting new technique for making concrete out of non-recyclable glass that has been turned back into sand.

The team found that ground-up glass can be used specifically to make polymer concrete, a material that uses polymers – typically resins – to replace lime-type cement as a binder for roads.

Since polymer is a particularly high-strength, water-resistant material, it is also suited for areas with heavy traffic such as service stations and airports.…

Published on Leave a comment on Is There An ‘Ideal’ Time To Go To Sleep? What’s This About Genes?

I'VE RESEARCHED ABOUT SLEEP QUITE OFTEN THROUGH THE YEARS AND SEEN KNOWLEDGE GROW. IT'S AN INTERESTING TOPIC. LET'S SEE WHAT HAS SURFACED NOW! Sometimes Science Can Be Our Enemy And Sometimes It Can Be Our Friend - I like Those Better, Do You? THIS HAS TO DO WITH MORE DISCOVERIES ABOUT OUR GENES - THEY CAN BE A GOOD THING WHEN IT COMES TO POSITIVE.

If you didn't have to worry about work, social commitments or kids, what would be your ideal time to go to sleep?

You probably know that sleep is important — you can tell that just by how yuck you feel when you don't get enough of it.

But is there more to sleep than just how much you get? Is there a difference between getting the much-hyped eight hours between 11pm and 7am, and 9pm and 5am?

The short answer to the "is there an ideal time for going to sleep" is "at night-time". But that's too short for an article, and there is a little more to it than that, so we asked some sleep experts for a deeper answer.

Your Perfect Bedtime Is In Your Genes
Moira Junge is a health psychologist with the Sleep Health Foundation, an advocacy group that campaigns for all things relating to sleep, and she says the idea that there's one true time to rule them all for going to sleep is a myth.…

Published on Leave a comment on It’s A Really Good Time For The Bees – Look What These Aussie Bee Keepers Did In 2015

WHAT AN INVENTION! FATHER AND SON DESIGN A BEEHIVE WITH A WAY OF COLLECTING HONEY WITHOUT DISTURBING THE BEES - JUST TURN A TAP ON AND AWAY YOU GO. COLLECTING HONEY IS NOW A PIECE OF CAKE, SHALL WE SAY?

Aussies Invent A Revolutionary Honey On Tap Beehive

I LIKE TO COVER STORIES LIKE THIS, EVEN IF IT ISN'T CURRENT NEWS - IT'S NICE TO SHARE GOOD NEWS! HEY? SEE THE PICTURE AND YOUTUBE LINK. THIS IS GOING WORLDWIDE AND IT COMMENCED WHEN BEEKEEPERS IN NSW CROWD FUNDED THEM. WHAT A MARVELOUS BUNCH OF PEOPLE - WELL DONE AUSSIES!!!

Since Father-Son Duo Designed Revolutionary ‘Honey on Tap’ Beehive, There Are 51,000 New Bee Colonies
By McKinley Corbley

Back in 2015, a father-son duo changed the beekeeping game simply by redesigning the traditional beehive – and now, honeybees are benefitting from their profits.

Stuart and Cedar Anderson are the co-creators of the Flow Hive: a brilliantly designed beehive that saves beekeepers hours of work simply by channeling all of its honey into a tap that can be turned on and off at will.

The Flow Hive allows honey to flow out of the hive straight into a jar without crushing or disrupting the bees inside.…

Published on Leave a comment on Elderly Lady Of Newcastle NSW Leaves $14 Billion Estate To 15 Australian Charities

I CAME ACROSS THIS STORY ON ONE OF OUR UNASSUMING ELDERLY CITIZENS FROM 2018. THIS ARTICLE SAYS SHE LIVED A MODEST LIFE AND THE CHARITIES ARE OVERCOME BY HER BENEVOLENT GESTURE. THE HELICOPTER RESCUE SERVICE, WORLD VISION AND RSPCA WERE THREE OF THEM. SHE HAS BEEN SINGLE ALL HER LIFE AND LOVED GIVING TO CHARITIES - THANK YOU LETTERS WERE OFTEN SENT.

Woman Who Led Modest Life Stuns 15 Charities By Dividing Her $14 Million Estate Among Them
By Andy Corbley

In sunny New South Wales, Australia, Sheila Woodcock 87 passed away in May of 2018 fulfilled, having spent a private life enjoying travel, horticulture, chocolate, animal companionship, and acting.

Sheila Woodcock's Passing Gesture To Charities

Unmarried and without kids, Sheila had several close personal friendships throughout her long life. But however close they were, and however often they noticed handwritten thank you letters from various charities repeatedly arriving in Sheila’s mailbox, none of her friends or family members would have imagined she had amassed a $14 million estate by the time of her death.

Her second cousin Kent Woodcock knew she was well-off, but couldn’t believe the extent of her wealth.…

Published on Leave a comment on Social Isolation Helped Me Discover The Wonders Of Walking and Enjoying Nature!

By Zoe Victoria April 2020

It’s been 16 days since my university shut down classes and I went into social isolation. Those first days of isolation felt like the end of the world. I felt constantly on edge. I was in a terrible mood most of the time and I resented the fact that I was stuck inside the house for everything. My work was online, my studies had transitioned online, I could only see and talk to my friends online. And amidst all of that, the internet bubble of news only seemed to be getting more and more anxiety-inducing.

I spent those sought after minutes of freedom walking my neighbourhood in an attempt to rid myself of the negative feelings of anger and anxiety that seemed to be constantly swirling around inside me. 

I have begun to look forward to my daily walk not just as an escape but as an enjoyable activity in its own right

And so my daily walk began as a way to escape the confines of the four walls of my house. If I didn’t leave I felt I would go stir crazy. One morning I woke up and did my level best to eat breakfast and change into my gym gear without encountering any of the other three people who live in my house.…

Published on Leave a comment on Random Acts Of Kindness Around The World

LET'S SEE SOME GLOBAL ACTS OF KINDNESS. I LIKE TO MAKE THE OCCASIONAL SEARCH FOR THEM AND SOMETIMES THERE IS ONE THAT IS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION. THESE ARE PRETTY SPECIAL. SO GLAD I COULD FIND THEM. I MAY ADD MORE STORIES TO THIS PAGE SOON.

Opera Singers Have Been Hosting Weekly Concerts in Their Driveway to Bring Neighbors Together

Story From Good News Network - May 2020

A South Carolina couple has been using their musical talents to bring their community together for weekly street concerts—all while respecting social distancing guidelines.

Leah Edwards and her husband Dimitri Pitta are professional opera singers who have been setting up shop at the end of their driveway in Mount Pleasant to perform classical and contemporary opera pieces for their neighbors.

Not only have their performances served as a source of entertainment for the neighborhood, they have also helped to keep the community close together during the novel coronavirus lockdowns.

“We’re practicing, they say they can hear us anyways, so we said why not take it to the driveway and make it a concert,” Edwards told WCBD. “It gets everyone out, checking on each other and get some breath of fresh air and make music.”…