Especially when it comes to jobs. The bad and tough stories are easy to find at the moment. The scale of job losses we are now seeing across the country is heartbreaking.

We've seen the devastation of entire industries like the airlines. Qantas this week announced another 2500 jobs will go.

Later on the same day news came out of the collapse of the fashion retailer Mosaic Brands, which includes stores such as Katies, Rockmans, Millers, Noni B, Rivers, Autograph, Crossroads, W.Lane and beme.

Mosaic announced it would close between 300 to 500 stores and many of those retailers have a presence in the Riverina.

We all read these stories, we all hear these stories, and they are important. Yet we also need to know there are positive stories, too.

Two years after federal government funding was announced, plans have been lodged for the University of NSW's Wagga Rural Clinical School.

It's hoped the school will better recruit and retain doctors in rural areas.

Medical education director at the Wagga Campus Associate Professor John Preddy said there was already plenty of interest from students.

"It is not just rural students wanting to do it ... there is plenty of metropolitan students who are excited about the prospects of studying medicine in Wagga," Professor Preddy said.

This week we also brought you the story of five-year-old Gundagai Public School student Abi Pigram, who has spent her young life building awareness for heart health.

Gundagai Public students raised more than $18,000 for the Heart Foundation as part of its Jump Rope for Heart initiative. With the help of her mum and dad, Abi single-handedly raised more than $7000 of that total.

The school's 157 students did a combined 319 hours of skipping to raise their enormous total, landing them in the top five fundraisers in the country.

Elsewhere, there are people reinventing themselves during these difficult times.

For example, Jackie Gash from Ryneharts Fashion is changing the focus of her store as she tries to weather the COVID-19 storm.

While everyone has been forced to make sacrifices during this pandemic, our businesses have been hit particularly hard.

But, despite being in the fight of their lives, many shop owners have been able to demonstrate just how resilient they are.

Stories like these are important stories to hear at these times.

Sure the employment market and the economy is challenged at the moment, but there are still some rays of sunshine making their way through the dark-coloured clouds of COVID-19.

Have a great week.