Positively Massachusetts: Stories of accomplishments, big & small, that had a lasting impact in 2022

Mass. — From rescues to charity work, all year long our friends and residents of Massachusetts have been busy helping the community and showing viewers what they are capable of doing.

We take you around the state to show you some of the amazing accomplishments that are worth celebrating.

An Acton father said it’s a miracle he and his daughter weren’t hit as a helicopter crashed off Miami Beach. They were in the water, just feet from where the chopper crash landed. Wade Callison is being credited with helping rescue the two passengers onboard.

A disaster on the dancefloor. A group of Brigham and Women’s nurses helped saved a guests life at a wedding after he was having a heart attack.

A dog is safe and back with his family after a close call at the Quincy Quarry. Otis, a 2-year-old chocolate lab who gets a bit rambunctious, had a harrowing. The family of the dog is crediting the Quincy Fire Department with saving their dog’s life.

Jonathan Roche often runs along Minot Beach in Scituate. “For me I don’t look as running as something I have to do. I look at it as something I get to do,” he said.

Jonathan ran his 27th straight Boston Marathon in 2022. He runs them for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. “The marathon’s pretty easy, compared to, it’s actually very easy compared to the battle that these cancer warriors take on every day and so I think of them and I honestly think of my mom,” Jonathan said. His mom, Dorothy, was treated at Dana Farber and died of lunge cancer in 1985.

If he stays on pace, Jonathan will be 73-years-old when he completes his 50th straight Boston Marathon running for the Dana-Farber team.

Sherborn Police Officer Doug Kingsley likes to walk, but he did something he has never done before. He walked over 200 miles, the entire length of Massachusetts, from the New York border to Chatham Light, all to raise awareness of police and first responder suicide prevention.

A woman took over as the commanding officer of the U.S.S. Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, for the first time in the warship’s 224-year history.

Cmdr. Billie J. Farrell relieved Cmdr. John Benda, becoming the first woman to command the USS Constitution.

Eight-year-old Henry Dynov-Teixeira, had his dreams came true when he met the Royal Couple.

Dynov-Teixeira, who was dressed in a British royal guard uniform stood outside Greentown Labs in Somerville when the Prince and PRincess of Wales came out and talked to him after their visit.

Lastly, Boston 25′s ‘Stuff the Sleigh’ for Christmas in the City raised over $7,000 and and collected more than 5,000 toys.

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