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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: Northwest Health and Safety (Video)
This couple works hand in hand with disabled members of the community - to give them a freedom that some of us might take for granted. And with a little hard work, they've made a lot of people very happy.
Everyday Heroes: Volunteers with Macdonald Center (Video)
For many people who once felt alone, life is a whole lot better thanks to the folks at the Macdonald Center.
Everyday Heroes: James Redden (Video)
Overlook Park’s baseball field wasn’t much to look at not long ago but thanks to James Redden baseball is back and in full swing at the field.
Everyday Heroes: Catherine Atiyeh-Mitchell (Video)
Catherine Atiyeh-Mitchell, a Salvation Army volunteer, stepped outside her comfortable surrounds to help others suffering through the aftermath of a tornado.
Everyday Heroes: A hero for horses (Video)
Teri Silva and her husband operate "Big Hearts Horse Rescue" in Keizer and having been saving horses from heartbreaking conditions.
Everyday Heroes: A Brush with Kindness (Video)
While Habitat for Humanity is known for building homes, its offshoot helps people maintain them.
Everyday Heroes: American Red Cross Youth Council (Video)
Here’s a group of high school students who are out to save lives, and in the process, highlight all the good that kids can accomplish.
Everyday Heroes: Busy Bees (Video)
Once a month in the back room of a Southeast Portland church you will find a group of people who call themselves the Busy Bees. They take discarded Barbies and refurbish them.
Everyday Heroes: Stepping up to help a fellow student (Video)
When a local college student needed some help many stepped up and some didn't even know her. It turned out to be all about compassion.
Everyday Heroes: Community renovates girls’ dorm at OSD (Video)
It’s an “Extreme Makeover: Community Edition.” That’s what you could call what happened at the Oregon School for the Deaf.
Everyday Heroes: Couple turns tragedy into hope for others (Video)
Brett and Brettie McCullough have been raising money to try and help other children living with cancer after their daughter, Kyla, died from a brain tumor.
Everyday Heroes: FISH Vancouver - George Kaufer (Video)
George Kaufer, president of FISH Vancouver, spends countless hours making sure others in our community are clothed and fed.
Everyday Heroes: A dream come true (Video)
Bud Ward will be 91 in July and helped organize his 1938 graduating class into a reunion group. But getting back to Ohio for his 73rd reunion was going to be tough until he reached out to KATU News.
Everyday Heroes: H.S. senior trains dogs for autistic kids (Video)
Lindsay Chavez donates countless hours of her time training service dogs so young kids with autism get a shot at a more normal life and a little companionship from a furry friend.
Everyday Heroes: Paul Knauls (Video)
Widely known as the "unofficial mayor" of Northeast Portland, many will tell you Paul Knauls is Northeast Portland – whether it’s been directing the “Good in the Hood” parade for 13 years or getting behind the effort to have the Martin Luther King Jr.