When not volunteering at Androscoggin Home Healthcare & Hospice in Lewiston, Paul Depuis is providing counselling and driving veterans to appointments.
Mainers to be Thankful For
Gary Dolloff of Rumford is a Mainer to be thankful for, improving his community one kindness at a time
The Rumford Community Center manager can usually be found helping someone or raising money for a good local cause, like running 2,132 miles this year for veterans.
‘It’s a labor of love’: Jay’s hard-working trail stewards
Don Leclerc, Randy Easter and Jeff Meserve meet weekly to determine their plan of action to maintain, improve trails.
‘Unsung heroes’: The volunteer drivers for Community Concepts
Putting on sometimes hundreds of miles a day, they’re ‘thankful to be able to serve some of the people who really need’ a ride.
Taunya Knight: A special end-of-life care-giver
“She wants to take care of people the way she would her own family, her mom, her sister, her daughter.”
Sarah Dailey
The champion for literacy brings book lending to her hometown of Otisfield.
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.