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good news thread (non polItical please)

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Thought a thread with good news would be a good idea.

In December, Associate Minister for the Environment, Eugenie Sage, confirmed the plastic bag phase out for retailers.

From July 1, 2019, retailers will be prohibited from selling or giving away single-use plastic shopping bags. As of 2018, the nation uses approximately 1.6 billion single-use plastic bags each year.

 

https://www.theplanetarypress.com/2019/01/new-zealand-plastic-bag-phase-out-confirmed/

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    I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!! (okay Serena retired in the first set, but do you guys have any idea how rare this is?)

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    A trip to Walt Disney World is every kid’s dream. But when one Florida boy set aside his dream to help Hurricane Dorian evacuees, the theme park stepped in.

    Jermaine Bell, 7, and his family were surprised with VIP getaway to Disney World after they used their vacation money to buy food for those escaping the hurricane.

     

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article234881302.html

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    https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/business/gravity-increases-employee-minimum-salary-to-70k-trnd/index.html

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    This CEO raised the minimum salary of his employees to $70k and now he's doing it again

    In 2015, Price decided to hike his employees' pay after he read a study about happiness. It said additional income can make a significant difference in a person's emotional well-being up to the point when they earn $75,000 a year.
    He then made the decision to increase the salaries for all of his 120 employees in Seattle, raising the minimum salary to $70,000 -- and slashing his $1 million salary by 90% in order to make it happen.
    The move doubled the pay of about 30 of his workers and gave an additional 40 significant raises.

     

    This is the business model that should be adopted by all corporations.

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    I don't care, this is going here!

     

     

    1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

    A+B=C

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    4 Month old hearing impaired baby gets hearing aids- it's pretty sweet:

     

     

    On 2019-09-25 at 9:23 PM, wanna-b-fanboy said:

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/business/gravity-increases-employee-minimum-salary-to-70k-trnd/index.html

    This is the business model that should be adopted by all corporations.

    This would just raise minimum wage (and the cost of everything else) - you'd just be putting inflation into hyperspeed.

    To keep things positive and relevant to this thread - paid off my mortgage.

    1 hour ago, Eternal optimist said:

    This would just raise minimum wage (and the cost of everything else) - you'd just be putting inflation into hyperspeed.

    To keep things positive and relevant to this thread - paid off my mortgage.

    Congrats

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    Nice to see this!

    https://www.wthr.com/article/seymour-teen-honored-raising-money-baby-box-saved-child

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     An Indiana teenager is receiving praise for the baby box that helped save a newborn this week.

    Hunter Wart, 19, made it his goal nearly two years ago to raise money for a Safe Haven Baby Box in his hometown of Columbus. After he raised $10,000 by collecting scrap metal and mowing lawns, the city declined his offer to put a baby box in Fire Station 3.

    Seymour took him up on the offer and the box was installed last June.

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/25/us/teenager-baby-box-newborn-baby-trnd/index.html

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    Monica Kelsey, founder of the nonprofit organization, began the initiative to give distressed mothers a safe place to drop off newborns while remaining anonymous.
    Safe Haven Baby Boxes also installs safety drawers, which work similarly to the boxes, and runs a 24-hour hotline for mothers in crisis.
    Kelsey, who was abandoned as an infant herself, said around two to three abandoned babies died every year in Indiana before the initiative was launched. Since then, the state has had no abandoned babies die, she said.
    "These babies were left in trash cans and dumpsters. One was left at the door of a hospital. That baby had frozen to death before he was found," Kelsey told CNN.

     

    Good to read about these things!

     

     

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    Winnipeg born Nick Taylor wins PGA's Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

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    After almost two months of working from home, I'm going back to work next week!

    it'll be one or two times a week though because we are taking baby steps

    though I will still have to work from home on those other one or two days I won't come in (I work part time)

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