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Coronavirus has swept every headline in every newspaper in the United States. Through all of tragedy, some people are beginning to talk about the good news in the world. Inspired by the likes of Some Good News with John Krasinski, Braydyn Lents promises to provide good news for our WFHB listeners. Every Friday listen to Braydyn discuss outstanding topics of good in the world and in Monroe County. Today’s topic involves Individuals providing accessible needs such as toilet paper and masks. You know Sydney I am ready for some positive news.
Welcome to Bright Newsweekly with me Braydyn Lents. Let’s jump straight to the positive news.
Around the United States, we have seen protests to reopen the country and governments working feverishly on solutions to provide help for states in need. However, there are so many innocent people, MCCSC, and food organizations such as The Hoosier Hills Food Bank and Texas Roadhouse, doing their part to lend a helping hand in times of crisis.
According to Lizzie Allen from The Bloomington South Optimist Newspaper, Junior Naomi Charlesworth participated in the Bloomington Mask Drive, an organization of Bloomington residents making reusable fabric facemasks to be distributed to essential workers. Although she learned how to use a sewing machine about three weeks ago, she started working on the project along with Indianapolis residents on April 3rd. According to Charlesworth, making these masks comes by request and love.
“Anyone can request masks and they’re free, but they are distributed based on priority or exposure risk. Only the best quality ones are given to healthcare providers to ensure their safety, but all the masks are distributed and used by someone.”
Last week Mrs. Mary Alice Rickert, a fourth-grade teacher from Childs Elementary School was greeted with a warming surprise from her 27 students: a parade near her house at Bryant Park. Following the social distancing protocols, students wore masks, stayed in their cars, and held up signs saying “We Miss You Mrs. Rickert!” The teacher was soon moved to tears with every car passing by, according to the Herald-Times she says “This is the most amazing thing anyone has ever done for me.”
At Cardinal Spirits Brewery the company is now churning substances that once made alcoholic beverages are now making hand sanitizer. The company posted to its website a mathematical approach to concocting the sanitizer that could easily be made with home products. For example, It takes “for one sanitizer ten liters of GNS, two liters of mineral oil, and 1.5 liters of RO water.” On the website cardinalspirits.com there are steps to make additional cleaners with coconut oil and glycerin.
Finally, King Brothers Dairy, a 140-year-old family-owned milk delivery company in New York state has been providing online delivery orders months before the coronavirus, are now getting a doubled-boost in profits with a high demand of local grocery stores to sell oak, soil, and two percent milk climbing existentially with some customers being put on hold. The milk company had something else to offer besides dairy…. Money. The company donated money to provide milk for grocery stores.
