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Richard Pierce
This week's Hometown Hero is Attleboro police chief Richard Pierce, who's involved with something that has nothing to do with preventing crime, and everything to do with helping handicapped children
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The Greater Boston Food Bank
This weeks Hometown Hero is "The Greater Boston Food Bank" which handed out more than 38,000 turkeys to organizations that help the hungry on Thanksgiving.
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Sarah Abrahamsen
Sarah Abrahamsen is a mother from Groton who organized a couple fundraisers, helping a community raise enough money to build a playground for the largest elementary school in Groton.
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Barbara Smith
This week's Hometown Hero is a grandmother from Acton who along with her husband started an organization nearly twenty years ago that provides free household goods for people in need. Her name is Barbara Smith.
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Liz Pease
This week's hero is Liz Pease, from the Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society. The Society on October 20 is hosting its annual "Fur Ball" to raise money for the Society.
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Cynthia Zeman
This week's Hometown Hero is a Swampscott woman, Cynthia Zeman, who helped organize a fencing competition with the proceeds going to battle breast cancer.
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Niko Calabria
This week's "Hometown Hero" is a teenager from Concord Mass, Niko Calabria--who was born with one leg. But that didn't keep him from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, for charity.
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Ann Batchelder
This Sunday, you can help find a cure for alzheimer's by taking part in the annual "Memory Walk". This week's Hometown Hero is Wellesley College professor Ann Batchelder. She helps alzheimer's patients almost every day, with her dog.
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Beverly Hyde
This week's "Hometown Hero" is a woman from Mansfield, Beverly Hyde, who knitted more than 150 hats for premature newborns in a Providence hospital. Now she's working on "booties".
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Cathy White
This Sunday, Route One in Saugus might look like a biker's convention for awhile. It’s all for a good cause, and it started with one friend helping out another. This week's hometown hero is Cathy White of Saugus.
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Cindy Smith
This week's "Hometown Hero" is a Brockton woman, Cindy Smith, who's doing what her mother did, and what her grandmother started: providing a home for disabled veterans.
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The New England Canine Search and Rescue Team
Every year people get lost in the woods of Vermont and New Hampshire. When that happens, members of The New England Canine Search and Rescue Team are often called out to help. They are this week's "Hometown Heroes".
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Rick McDermod
This week's Hometown Hero has given a lot of himself over the years. He’s a Melrose school teacher, Rick McDermod who has donated a lot of blood.
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Reverend Angelo Pappas
This week\'s hometown hero is Reverend Angelo Pappas, from Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As a pastor he goes above and beyond his regular duties by counseling people at disasters, large and small.
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Raisa Carrassco Velez
This week's "Hometown Hero" is a woman who came to this country as a young teenager, not knowing a word of English. Now she is being honored for her tireless work with the Lawrence Boys and Girls Club.
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Scott Procopio
On Saturday, there\'s going to be a dedication ceremony in Saugus. The American Legion Hall there is going to be named for Scott Procopio, the young marine who lost his life in Iraq more than a year ago. He is this week\'s Hometown Hero
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Bill Garr
The Newton Community Service Center is celebrating a birthday this weekend. The center is one hundred years old. The head of that center, Bill Garr, is this week's Hometown Hero
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Tina Vevas
Tina Vevas is a mom from Lancaster who spends a lot of time helping soldiers injured in Iraq. She is a "Blue Star" mother with a son who's done two tours in Iraq.
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Mary Flannery
Mary Flannery, from Nahant has spent the past two decades creating Raw Arts, a space for kids in Lynn to be artistic.
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Tina Cherry
After her teenage son was murdered more than a decade ago, Tina Cherry of Boston has dedicated her life to helping other families deal with the loss of a loved one to the streets.
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Jim Goebel-Becker
On a cold day in February Jim Goebel-Becker was by the side of Cynthia Crumley, whom got into a sledding accident on Mount Hood in Melrose. Jim called for help and stood by her side until they arrive, Cynthia calls Jim her guardian angel.
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Fred McNeil
Fred McNeil rescued a woman from a sinking car on a flooded road in New Hampshire. Fred ripped a hole with a screw driver into the top of the convertible to pull the woman out.
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Mary McHale
For the past 35 years 76 year old Mary McHale has volunteerd at a homeless shelter in the South End. Mary has been the house mother at the shelter for the past 18 years; she supplies the food, keeps the house clean and greets the guest when they enter the
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Karen Sommers
Karen Sommers from Southborough started a charity with her husband several years ago called "Smiling Kids". They provide birthday presents to children who otherwise might not get a birthday present.
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Joseph Perera
Joseph Perera, of New Bedford who is in the National Guard, was supposed to be sent to Baghdad, but he got in a car crash, so he's still home. Joseph is not just sitting around doing nothing; he's helping his brother, Andrew, who is also in the National G
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Larry Scaglione
Larry Scaglione owner of Big Bully’s restaurant in Beverly has become very friendly with eleven year old Max Gaudenzi who has muscular dystrophy. His selflessness demonstrates what a true hero is really all about.
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Cassie Burns
Cassie Burns from Dracut was responsible for saving the lives of about 10 people in an early morning fire in an apartment home.
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Christine Bethony
Christine Bethony gets busy when springtime comes knocking on the door, she makes Easter baskets for the kids at Franciscan Children's Hospital. Nobody told her to do this, she doesn't have any relatives in the hospital, she just saw a need, and every yea
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Tony Brenna
Tony Brenna from Milford has been helping kids with terminal illnesses for 25 years, now he himself has been diagnosed with cancer. Tony and his wife have been bringing smiles to children who have very little reason to smile, he does it with a foundationc
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Betsy Tyson-Smith
Betsy Tyson-Smith a psychotherapist and a survivor of breast cancer, is the co-founder of the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden in Harvard, MA. She uses her therapy skills and her experiences with breast cancer to counsel the woman and families who uses th
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Sandy Gerraughty and Robin O’Malley
Sandy Gerraughty and Robin O’Malley from Georgetown have been exceptionally helpful to the 24 families who were affected by the apartment building fire in Georgetown. Their actions vary from clothing and food drives to arranging Santa to visit the childre
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Jamie Seagle
Jamie Seagle has been a major contributor of the Rogerson Communities since 1973. Rogerson Communities helps support individuals of low income in housing and health services.
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Dr. Irving Fradkin
Dr. Irving Fradkin and optometrist from Fall River established the Dollars for Scholars foundation in 1957. Dollars for Scholars helps children in and around the Fall River area to afford a college education.
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Bill Perkins
For the past 4 years Bill Perkins has been acting like a year round Santa Claus to Kids in the stadium projects whose families were too poor to buy them bikes.
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Project Elf
Project Elf is an anonymous organization which helps out children in need. Each child in need is assigned an elf whom will sponsor him or her during the holiday season.
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Morrill Worcester
Christmas is about more than just gift giving. For Morrill Worcester it’s about remembering. Every year for the past fifteen he’s placed wreaths on the graves in Arlington national cemetery.
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Boston Police Officer Kevin Jones
Boston Police Officer Kevin Jones helped a woman and her daughter get home to Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Nancy Gillambarto’s Wallet was stolen from her purse and Officer Kevin Jones helped her get through the difficult time.
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Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott of Danvers saved his neighbor and her dog from her burning home last week during the Danvers ink plant explosion.
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Deeds Warehouse
The mission of "Deeds” warehouse in Reading was established by a group of people whom are helping out the homeless by supplying the furniture they need.
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Judy Beckler
Judy Beckler has been the executive director for 13 years of the Saint Mary’s Woman and Children’s Center in Dorchester which serves the largest population of homeless women and children in the city.
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Lisa Trischitta
No one should have a “bone” pick with Lisa Trischitta. Her organization Healthy Bones, comprised of 13 kids from 7 different families, collects food and toiletries the first Saturday of every month to donate to a local food pantry. This October is the gro
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Hudson Medical Clinic
This edition of “Hometown heroes” really is a group of heroes. The folks who run a medical clinic in Hudson on Monday nights are providing healthcare to the uninsured that otherwise wouldn’t get it, thus giving them a chance to get the treatments they nee
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Stephanie and Joey Mancuso
Stephanie and Joey Mancuso of Dracut may change the ways people look at birthdays forever. Starting at age 3, they took whatever gifts they were given for their birthdays and donated them to charity, a practice they continue to this day.
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Nancy Schwoyer
Everyone talks about helping the homeless, but Nancy Schwoyer did more than just help, she opened up her home to those less fortunate. She created the Wellspring House in Gloucester, and twenty five years after it’s creation, it, as well as her, is still
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Father Paul O’Brien
Father Paul O’Brien from Saint Patrick Parish in South Lawrence a priest in the poorest city in the commonwealth, he opened up his church to the homeless for a meal with himself and some parishioners on Thanksgiving Day.
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Meaghan Finn
Meaghan Finn of Woburn was only ten years old when she led her community in a breast cancer walk to honor her neighbor. Meaghan raised $5,000 last year and will be holding a second annual Breast Cancer Walk on October 15th.
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Laura Plunkett
Laura Plunkett, from Marblehead. After her son was diagnosed with diabetes Laura wrote the book "The Challenge Of Childhood Diabetes".
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Brenda White
Brenda White of Revere Beach, combines her love of cycling and helping others by riding in the Pan Mass Challenge for the Jimmy Fund. When she’s not riding she’s taken time out to organize a giant rummage sale in her neighborhood.
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Helena Ellis
Animal lover and mother of two Helena Ellis is part of the Metro-West Animal Awareness Society. Along with her full time job as a project manager at the Harvard School of Public Health, Helena helps find a home for homeless cat’s in the Hudson-Marlboro ar
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Lt. Robert Sandborn
Lt. Robert Sandborn along with various members of the Fitchburg Engine 1 fire department rescued 4 people trapped on the third floor of the Hill Top Estates condo’s.
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Dr. Murray Feingold
In 1984, WBZ's Dr. Murray Feingold established the Genesis Fund, which reaches out to children born with birth defects. Over the past twenty years, Dr. Murray has raised over 20 million dollars for children in need.
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Tereza Prime
Tereza Prime, mother of five and grandmother of four started a food pantry in her hometown of Hingham fifteen years ago. She wanted to reach out and help her community especially the elder. Tereza has also started a home for AIDS orphans and has made many
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Karl Schmuch
Karl Schmuch a Hamilton postman was making his regular rounds when he noticed 85 year old Harold Libby had not been collecting his mail. Turns out the 85 year old had fallen two days prior and couldn’t get up, Schmuck saved the life of 85 year old HaroldL
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Laura Smith
Laura Smith of Lowell is the founder of the Laura Smith Fund, which helps New Orleans residents who were affected by Katrina. WBZ's Carl Stevens reports.
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Yavon O'Toole
Yavon O'Toole, a nurse from Hyde Park saved the life of a fifteen year old boy after he had drown in a swimming pool. Yavon courageously performed CPR on the young boy back to life.
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Sheila Larson
Sheila Larson a Dorchester special needs teacher who's taking her skills overseas, to a community that can use all the help it can get.
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Russell Reynolds
Russell Reynolds a Brockton mechanic was traveling over the grove street bridge when he saw a house in flames. He entered the house where he helped save a family with three children from the home.
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