Add Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to the list of towns you might wish you’d stopped by on Sunday. Edie Weinstein planned to go on a “happy birthday hug stroll” to celebrate her 61st and embrace anybody in her path who felt a desire to connect with another human being.

But no matter if you missed it. Weinstein regularly hands out hugs as the force behind the Hugmobsters Armed with Love movement.

“Part of my passion and purpose is to bring people together,” she says. “I’m a connector and hugs are probably among the best ways to bridge those gaps.”

This is a must-read from Doylestown Patch: Story Behind Doylestown’s Spontaneous Hugger

Below, savor some of the other inspiring news stories from Patch editors around the country last week. Before we get to them, here are a couple of updates on stories from last week’s Good News In America.

Guess How Many Birthday Cards George Campbell Got For102nd Birthday: From Brick Patch comes an update on the request for 102 birthday cards to help George Campbell celebrate his 102nd birthday. You won’t believe the response.

Fundraiser To Replace Stolen Dog Shelter Money Beyond Successful: From Annapolis Patch, find out how much money an Anne Arundel teen has raised for a county animal shelter to replace money stolen from a donation box.

What Kids Learn From A Blind And Deaf Dog Named Piglet

The blind and deaf pink puppy Piglet will steal your heart in an instant. Born unable to see or hear into the chaos of a hoarding situation in Georgia, he screamed from the moment he took his first breath and long after Westport, Connecticut, veterinarian Dr. Melissa Shapiro picked him up at a pet store in Milford.

Two years later, he was named the “most inspiring dog” at the Special K-9 Games. You’ll see why when you read about “The Piglet Mindset” school curriculum that helps children with disabilities learn that, just like the adorable Dachshund-Chihuahua mix Piglet, they can overcome challenges that once frustrated them by approaching them differently.

Read this and more stories on Westport Patch

Child Turns Wheelchair Into Amazing Halloween Costume

This 9-year-old boy from Greenwich, Connecticut, has “The Piglet Mindset” and more. Sam Buck, who uses a wheelchair to get around, used it as the base for his creative Halloween costume. His chair has been everything from a pirate ship to Elvis Presley’s pink Cadillac.

“He literally is just happy all the time; nothing gets him down,” his mother, Allyson Buck, told Patch. “He has every right to be miserable, but he never is. He’s just so positive about everything … and he’s so grateful for even the tiniest things. We have two other kids who are really nice and kind children, but [Sam’s] just got a different level of gratefulness for every moment of every day. It really is inspiring.”

Read this and more stories on Greenwich Patch.

Heart-Tugging Response To Teacher’s Gut-Wrenching Hungry Boy Post

Tennessee elementary school teacher Brooke Goins said a mouthful after she admitted on Facebook that she “lost it” and cried in front of her class: “No kid should be hungry, ever.”

One of her students at Jacksboro Elementary School had just asked her when the lady who puts groceries in his backpack would be stopping by. He hoped the food donation that ensures he will have something to eat on weekends would include SpaghettiOs, telling his teacher “they give me a warm belly and help me sleep.”

The teacher’s post struck such a chord that the boy and others at his school can get emergency food at a food pantry

Read this story on Knoxville Patch, a community platform.

Field Goal Contest Winner Gives Prize To Ailing Coach

You may notice a theme on Patch: We think the youth in the towns we cover are pretty awesome. We can all take a cue from Glendora, California, soccer player Tiffany Gomez, who kicked a 30-yard field goal during a half-time contest at a high school football game and won a year’s worth of free Chik-Fil-A.

She turned her prize over to a coach for the Bonita High School football team — her school’s opponent in the football game. He’s battling pancreatic cancer.

Read this and more stories on Glendora Patch.

Woman With Stage 4 Breast Cancer Sees Red During ‘Pinktober’

Keri Lynn Stromski isn’t just batting Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. The Jamesport, New York, mother and teacher is fighting the pervasive notion that wearing the color pink during October will somehow help her and others like her living with breast cancer.

Stromski is seeing red over “Pinktober” — Breast Cancer Awareness Month — and calls it the “worst month of the year.”

Read this and more stories on Riverhead Patch.

University Of Texas-Austin Professor Wins Nobel Prize

A University of Texas at Austin professor is one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2019.

John B. Goodenough, a professor at the university’s Cockrell School of Engineering, received the prize along with Stanley Whittingham, a professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Akira Yoshino. The trio were awarded the prestigious prize for the development of lithium-ion batteries.

Read this and more stories on Downtown Austin Patch.

Oprah Winfrey Donates Another $13 Million To Scholarship Fund

Entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey has donated another $13 million to continue the Oprah Winfrey Scholarship Program at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, pushing her total investment to $25 million, which college officials say is the largest endowment in its history.

Winfrey spent Monday at Morehouse for the 30th anniversary of the scholarship program she created in 1989. A portrait was unveiled in her honor at the school.

Read this and more stories on Atlanta Patch.

Good News For Sandra, The Orangutan With Human Rights

The orangutan Sandra, the first non-human animal recognized as a person in a court of law, lost her personhood status when she moved from Argentina to the United States. But she’s eventually headed to the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida, where the orangutans and chimpanzees living there already enjoy freedom of choice and other human rights.

With her landmark ruling granting Sandra some of the same rights as humans, Argentine Judge Elena Liberatori said she “wanted to tell society something new, that animals are sentient beings and that the first right they have is our obligation to respect them.”

Read this and more stories on Lakeland Patch.

Cops Bring Humor To PG&E Shutdown To Reduce Fire Risk

Sometimes, the news is so terrible, you have to make the most of it. The California utility giant PG&E rolled out its blackout plan this week as a preemptive strike against wildfires. The situation is serious across central and northern California, but some good humored cops spread some jokes to cheer people up.

“Remain calm. Use your cell phone light to search frantically for the one flashlight you think you have in the house. It will be dead of course,” the Pleasonton Police Department wrote on its Facebook page.

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