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Who is your hero? KATU wants to recognize the "Everyday Heroes" in our community - ordinary people doing extraordinary things to make our neighborhoods a better place to live. Nominate your own "Everyday Hero."
Everyday Heroes
Everyday Heroes: Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation (Video)
We're going to revisit one of our heroes who keep doing good things. In fact, more people are able to see clearly now thanks to them.
Everyday Heroes: Helping homeless veterans (Video)
Mike Bryant and his wife Lacey Palmer are consumed with helping homeless veterans. They call their house of compassion Lacey's House. Its origin can be traced back to Lacey's father - a Vietnam vet.
June Brannam was given a week to live after being diagnosed with throat cancer. Eight years later, Brannam is using her energy and skills to bring joy, hope and love to others when they need it the most.
Everyday Heroes: Teaching kids about bikes (Video)
It's not just a bike repair class for middle school kids it’s also providing students a lesson in helping others and in self-pride.
Everyday Heroes: Harvesting Hope (Video)
A simple idea based in the concept of sharing. One Portland woman's vision is filling the shelves of local food pantries with a staple most of us take for granted: fresh fruit.
Everyday Heroes: John and Kristi Scott (Video)
Every once in a while you meet someone who's doing something good because it's the right thing to do. John and Kristi Scott have no personal or family connection to ALS disease, but that doesn't matter.
Everyday Heroes get a boost after stories air (Video)
After their stories aired on KATU News, a bed maker got a huge anonymous donation and a media organization for people with developmental disabilities was able to hire more reporters.
Everyday Heroes: Healing music for cancer patients (Video)
Two strangers, Charlene Zidell and Charles Suniga, were brought together by a passion to help others. How a woman helped a local musician become a player with a purpose.
Everyday Heroes: Down syndrome isn't stopping Karen Gaffney (Video)
A local woman with Down syndrome doesn't let her disorder get in her way. Now she is getting her feet wet once yet again to help local kids.
Everyday Heroes: Duncan Campbell (Video)
Campbell started Friends of the Children 19 years ago. A tough childhood in the same Northeast Portland neighborhood lit a fire in him to want to give back.
Everyday Hero: Louie Kazemier & Camp Attitude (Video)
While it may seem like any other summer camp, look closely, because this is a camp filled with more love and compassion than you can imagine.
Everyday Heroes: Media co. busts down barriers to land interviews (Video)
David McGinnis and Todd Kimball and others cover things like sports, music and trade shows. Kimball says people with developmental disabilities have an openness that allows them to ask questions that other media won't.
Everyday Heroes: Using science to make a difference (Video)
We want to introduce you to an incredible local teenager, Naomi Shah, who's making international headlines. She's taken her family's struggle and her passion for science and turned it into a vision that she hopes will make a difference.
Everyday Heroes: 'Jimmy Love' is the 'definition of the word dedicated' (Video)
Jimmy Stewart has been volunteering at Loaves and Fishes five days a week for the last 15 years and has never missed a single day. His friends say he is the "definition of the word dedicated." He also has some pretty mean dance moves.
Everyday Heroes: Polly Bangs and Urban Opportunities (Video)
Remember when you were a kid and didn't know where to start looking for that first job? Some teens out there have a woman who's squarely in their corner.