Here is your weekly positive news. Every week we highlight the most uplifting and inspiring stories from around the globe. If you missed last week’s, read it here.

This nonprofit is using music to mend the minds of seniors with dementia. 

Patients with severe paralysis can now text and email with a new “brain computer.”

Support for gay marriage has reached an all-time high. 

This Arkansas school installed solar panels and increased its teacher’s salaries with the savings. 

A Texas 5th grader is on a mission to donate 100k meals to those in need by Thanksgiving. 

Meet the Toronto carpenter building insulated, mobile shelters for homeless people this winter. 

San Jose man donates 25,000 baseball cards to a 9-year-old girl whose collection was destroyed in a wildfire. 

Thanks to community efforts, Seattle’s Duwamish River is the cleanest it’s been in 100 years. 

A whale sculpture stopped a run-a-way train from crashing into the water. 

Thanks for reading our weekly positive news! Check back next week for more inspiring and uplifting stories.