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From Three to Thousands

Father Answers Cruel Blow with Educational Mission

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Making Art the Heart of Learning

 

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Meet the Muslims, Utah

 

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FIRST With The Good News
Today's Silver Lining Headline:

A Tiny Silver Lining From the Pandemic: Small Businesses Are Expanding

Forbes, Aug. 17, 2020 - Micheline Maynard reports on small business trends in Ann Arbor, Mich. and explains how they are an example of how small businesses in other U.S. cities are finding opportunities that might not have evolved without the pandemic-generated economic downturn. 


Salt Lake Store Owner Embraces "Mayberry" Business Model during COVID-19  By Linda T. Kennedy MURRAY, Utah – Utahan Darrin Fox should have shut up his shop during Utah's pandemic lockdown, but his cus...
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"I get blamed by many that I always think of a person as being good until proven otherwise." --Dr. Fuad Shihab   Dr. Fuad Shihab and his family share dinner. L-R: Shihab's chil...
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Father Answers Cruel Blow with Educational Mission   By Linda T. Kennedy Editor’s note: The Stamford Connecticut house fire that took the lives of Matthew Badger’s children Lily, age 9, and t...
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By Linda T. Kennedy Editor’s note: this is the second story in a 3-part On Our Watch special series It’s not uncommon to find organizations in which the impetus for their birth and...
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Food

“Some foods are so comforting, so nourishing of body and soul, that to eat them is to be home again after a long journey. To eat such a meal is to remember that,
though the world is full of knives and storms, the body is built for kindness. The angels, who know no hunger, have never been as satisfied.” ― Eli Brown, Cinnamon and Gunpowder

  • About Us

    Rebecca Z. Kennedy started The Silver Lining News in 1972 as a vision for news reported from positive angles, and story follow-ups that illustrated “silver linings” from past events. In order to register her business and slogans in Utah during the 1970s, she was required to distribute the publication out of state.

    She made a single-sheet publication and drove to Wyoming where the owner of a drug store agreed to distribute it for her. Within a couple months, she received a Utah State declaration granting her protection for “The Silver Lining News” as well as “First With the Good News.”

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  • The Silver Lining Story 

    Picking up a hitchhiker was about the only time my family had a brush with the counterculture revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, and that was before my parents heard stories about hitchhikers killing and robbing drivers. My dad likely gave that hitchhiker the benefit of the doubt – she was carrying a baby she named “Dawn Rain.” (She said the baby was born at dawn, in the rain. And who is more trustworthy than a mom carrying a baby?)

    Other than that experience, the only other way we connected to the hippie movement immortalized in the 1967 song “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)” was with The Silver...

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