Good Samaritan, Reader's Choice, Winning Benefactors, Your Winners »
Readers Choice: Adam Hathaway doesn’t wear a cape or red vinyl boots (thank goodness), but he is a hero to thousands of children and an inspiration to countless people.
Reader's Choice, Winning Father »
It was one the hottest summers in over twenty years, or so the old timers kept saying. We were in a drought and every Sunday as the preacher prayed for rain, though my head was bowed, I hoped against it. For us, rain wasn’t what we needed most. We were in a race against time. We had no home to live in. It was one of the most defining points of our life that far.
Reader's Choice, Winning Citizens »
Ten years ago Dave Ribbe was seeing a counselor for chronic depression. Traditional therapies, such as medication and counseling, had no discernible effect on his extreme depressed state.
“I went around all the time thinking about suicide…ways I could off myself,” Ribbe says.
Art & Literature, Winners Against The Odds »
Julie Ann has defied the odds to become an accomplished artist and a wonderful wife and mother. There’s nothing confined about artist Julie Ann Mills-Testi. Not her bold mouth brush strokes, her passion for “dancing” through her art or her…
Reader's Choice, Winning Benefactors »
Walking into The IKE Box in downtown Salem, Oregon is more than just walking into a coffee shop-slash-concert venue. It’s walking into a story painted with a palette that contains varying splotches of emotions, sacrifices, and experiences. It’s walking in, around, and through a story that makes one proud to be a contributor by simply walking in, around, and through it.
Reader's Choice, Winners Against The Odds »
She sits quietly now. She says only what she needs or wants to say. She often confesses, in fragmentary frustration, “too difficult now”; too difficult to adjust her position on the chair, too difficult to apply lotion, too difficult to carry on a lengthy conversation. Still, the message of her soul is clear. I am a fortunate witness to her message. I have known Monessa Tinsley-Crabb for two years now.
Reader's Choice, Winners Against The Odds »
Evans’ gift as a creative entrepreneur has enabled her to take a piece of leftover material, paper, fur, feathers, etc., and turn them into spectacular designs that have been featured in the newspapers and on television. She tells us that this is the talent she developed from rummaging through trash and turning it into treasures during her formative years. Several of her creations have been on exhibit at the Annual North Carolina State Fair. Her famous Newspaper Gown was displayed in London England during the Millennium Celebration.
Reader's Choice, Winning Youths »
In October 2004, when her family situation turned abusive, a Texas court placed then 17-year old Justine in a residential treatment facility. Justine and her younger brother, adopted near birth by a career military officer and his wife, were home schooled in standard curriculum as well as Bible stories by their adoptive mother. This strict upbringing and social isolation during their primary and middle school years set the stage for a difficult adolescent period for Justine.
Reader's Choice, Winning Health Givers »
John managed to survive the tougher sections of Chicago and its suburbs, surrounded by racial hatred and gang violence. Before his father’s death when John turned fifteen, John’s father had administered a lifetime of belittlement, humiliation, and so called deserved beatings to his son. His mother’s over-protective love was an attempt to compensate for bringing another child into a house with a rage-filled father. “Gee, I wonder why I came out of the womb with a vengeance and why I went head-to-head with everyone in my life, including life itself.”
Winning Humanitarians »
Krista started WINS (Women’s Information Network Services) in 2002 out of two cupboards and a donated space. It has since grown into a successful program. The WINS program offers services such as emergency shelter vouchers, emergency transportation, food, clothing, diapers, baby items, formula, prenatal information, and referrals to safe houses and other services.
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