The community ‘elder’ facilitates understanding through language as an on-call interpreter for Maine Medical Center who also helps families experiencing domestic violence.

The recovery advocate uses his long-term sobriety to help others.

The retired central Maine educator ‘shows up in so many ways,’ including serving on the boards of three nonprofits, donating produce from his garden and helping a 99-year-old friend.

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.