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Chalk and Blackboard $25; Making Friends With Neighbors… Priceless!

When a new neighbor moved in and began writing messages on a chalkboard in his front window, the funny and inspiring messages about happiness, or finding a wife, made Ayden Byle the toast of his Toronto neighborhood.

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Bi-lingual Sweetheart to the Rescue at Gate A-4

Wandering around the airport terminal, after learning my flight had been detained four hours, I heard an announcement: "If anyone in the vicinity of Gate 4-A understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately." Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there. An older woman in full traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly. "Help," said the Flight Service Person. "We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this." In my halting Arabic, I was able to soothe her worried mind. Not only that, by the end of four hours, all the women at the gate were as one, bonded by the old woman sharing her cookies.

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Retiring School Principal Gets Loving Flash-Mob Sendoff

A retiring Massachusetts principal was tricked into going on the school rooftop to receive a very memorable going-away present. Students, parents and staff stretched across the parking lot below surprising the 36-year veteran educator with a loving flash mob of thanks.

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Website Converts Excess Goods to Good Deeds

Over the past 30 years, the charity Good 360 has redistributed over $7 billion dollars worth of products to the poor. The online marketplace makes it easy and profitable for corporations to donate unused surplus to charities, rather than storing it or shipping it to a landfill.

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Vancouver Donations Save Filipina Barista's Life

Janette Camba, a temporary worker and familiar barista at Tim Hortons, for more than three years, is now back in her home country of the Philippines, recovering from a life-saving kidney transplant, paid for by almost $30,000 in donations raised in North Vancouver.

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UPDATE: Bullied Bus Driver Teaches Kindness One Year Later

After being gifted a life-changing sum of $703,000 following a school bus bullying incident seen around the world, former bus monitor Karen Klein says she really hasn't changed all that much.

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River Cleanups Unearth Bottled Secrets

A man whose mission is to clean up the lakes and rivers of the United States has removed more than 7 million pounds of trash. By 2010, has had already pulled 775 refrigerators and 55,000 tires from American waterways. But the work also yielded some treasure -- 64 messages in bottles.

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Officer Gives Homeless Couple of 3 Years a Fairy Tale Wedding (WATCH)

Dreams really do come true: especially for this homeless couple that went from living in a tent to being officially married and living in a new apartment.