The champion for literacy brings book lending to her hometown of Otisfield.
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Parker Harnett and Zoe Seigel
The 16-year-old Yarmouth juniors’ website connects peers with volunteer opportunities.
Alfredo Nicolas and Terra Fletcher
Two wildlife lovers were strangers until they united to rescue a great black hawk in Deering Oaks during a January snowstorm.
Gerry Pineau
The firefighter from Lewiston, called ‘Superman without a cape,’ stepped up after the fatal Farmington explosion.
Molly Amann
The 19-year-old college student from Scarborough volunteers at Maine Medical Center’s Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Portland, the hospital that treated her.
Florence Olebe
The community ‘elder’ facilitates understanding through language as an on-call interpreter for Maine Medical Center who also helps families experiencing domestic violence.
Lonney Steeves
The longtime Winthrop rec director and coach is ‘like a big daddy to all these kids.’
Mufalo Chitam
The immigrant leader went into overdrive, working 13-hour days and drawing on years of connections to help asylum seekers who came to Portland last summer.