A "small town" couple in North Dakota refurbished a decaying building in downtown Valley City to make a new self-serve coffee shop. To cut down on costs, The Vault Coffee Shop and Bakery uses the honor system to collect payments, with a credit card swipe machine and a slot into which customers can drop cash or checks. So far, people have paid 15% above normal prices.
From New Hampshire comes the story of an 88-year-old grandma with a bucket list laced with speed and risk. While some people watch TV or play cards in their senior years, Flo Silva of Londonderry is grabbing all the excitement she can.
Over the years, a homeless woman known as Dorothy with her carts filled with plastic bags became a familiar fixture to Lexington residents. She had always refused any invitation to accept shelter, preferring to sleep outside, whatever the weather. But things changed this past weekend, with the approaching arctic blast and its promise of temperatures that could induce frostbite.
What happens if you give a thousand small PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. All, without instruction.
Grandma Baddiewinkle has become famous and given us lessons on how to live life with fun and happiness at 87 – and how to look cute while doing it.
Families in a largely Mexican-American, working class community are fighting to defend an old building on the grounds of Whittier Elementary School from a planned demolition. Instead, they want the city to use the building, adding a library there for the school students, who have none currently. They have occupied the building for 37 days, and begun a lending library on their own, using 1,000 books donated from around the city.
A remote control toy truck sent to Sgt. Chris Fessenden in Afghanistan by his brother helped to trigger a bomb meant to kill U.S. soldiers. In 2007, Ernie Fessenden teamed up with a hobby store owner to create a radio-controlled model truck outfitted with a wireless video camera to help his brother check for bombs under trucks. That souped-up toy ended up preventing the potential deaths of six soldiers two weeks ago.
Ex gang-bangers, gay parents, Mormon missionaries, and celebrity journalists – these are all examples of "stories" you can check out from the Human Library.
They are all like a second family to a letter carrier in Glendale, Arizona. That's why he delivered a hand-written letter to each one on his route last week.
When their government offered to only take in 50 refugees,16,000 Icelanders stepped up and volunteered to host individuals and families in their homes.
Construction workers erecting a building also built a bridge of sorts to a little girl in the hospital room window.
Canadian utility workers gave one of their own an amazing bucket truck salute, lining the road as his funeral procession passed by.
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