Take me out to the ballgame

Catherine Kyle lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She's 99 years old, and has been a Pirates fan all her life, even though they haven't won a World Series in 40 years. She used to watch the games on TV with her late husband, and for her birthday, her family took her to her very first game. She went with 16 family members, including her kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids.

Before the game, she told everyone the part she looked forward to most was singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" for the seventh-inning stretch. The Pirates have not had a great season again this year. Their last in their division. But they came up big for Catherine by crushing the Cincinnati Reds, 14 to nothing.

Homeless need safety, and mobility

Julie Atkins, 58, is a freelance journalist based in Ashland, Oregon. In 2016 she took a road trip, and over the next two years lived among the homeless from Portland to Denver. She asked what they needed to get off the streets, and found some families with children living in abandoned school busses, where they slept on the floor and had no toilet, shower or kitchen.

Atkins learned that homeless families want "a place to live that is their own, and that's safe -- and they want to be mobile so they get better jobs." After meeting the homeless, she came up with the idea of taking retired school busses and converting them into nice, livable spaces with kitchens and bathrooms for working homeless families. She launched "Vehicles for Changes" about 18 months ago, and her first family moved into a converted, tricked-out "Skoolie" about nine months later.

Reading to children at bedtime

Two sisters from Delaware read children's books on their Facebook Live account every week night. Zaria Willard, 13, ad her 8-year-old sister Hailey visit their library to find books to read on social media. They have already garnered over 10,000 fans.

Both sisters love books, and know some children don't have access to them, and parents might not have time to read at night. They have been able to share their stories with over 100 listening children every night. "We presented this idea to my mom and she agreed it would be great," said Zaria. "She personally doesn't want us to be on social media, but we all agreed being on it in a positive way would help light the world."

Living up to his name

Christian Moore was waiting in line for the doors at Minneha Core Knowledge Magnet Elementary School in Wichita, Kansas, to open one recent morning when he glanced aside and happened to notice second grader Conner Crites, 8, standing alone in a corner, crying. Conner has autism and felt overwhelmed by the first day of second grade.

Conner's mom, April, remembers, "Instead of overlooking him like most kids would have, Christian just reached over and grabbed his hand and made my son's day better." Christian's mom, Courtney, snapped this photo of her son's act of kindness and posted it on Facebook. It's gone viral.

Seeing the ocean for the first time

Many residents of Palestine live only an hour away from the seaside, but most have never seen the ocean, because they are unable to travel across the Israeli military border without a permit. That's why Robby Berman has coordinated a determined group of Israeli volunteers to cross the border into Palestine, pick up Palestinian families in their villages, and escort them back across the border to the beach at Tel Aviv. It's a day of fun that most Palestinian families will never forget.

Rabbi Jonathan Feldman, one of the volunteers, says, "I think Jewish values are to reach out to other people and have peace with our neighbors -- that's what we're striving for. We can say prayers for peace many times every day, but the first peace we need is with our neighbors."

A crumb from history

Crime scenes attract classical musicians

The Black String Triage Ensemble is a group of classical musicians who play music at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, crime scenes after law enforcement teams have left. Ranging in age from 11 to 75, the musicians hope that by playing music at the sites of gun violence and shootings, they can help ease the pain of nearby community members who are affected by the incident.

According to Ensemble founder Daybin Hallmon, "It's not necessarily so much for the family of the victims...but for everyone else in the neighborhood -- people who live next door, everybody that's in a space somehow devastated in some way by the impact of the crime." He hopes classical music will "sweep away the ashes" so neighbors don't carry them home.