Who is a local hero? I am writing a book and am looking for them.?

I am writing a book on local heroes: people who are positively affecting their communities, their state and their world.





Can you tell me about heroes in your area? Nominate them. Send me news links, names, contact info if you can find it. Thanks!





My website is www.SunnyHarborPublishing.org





So far, I have 10 people / groups.





I have


**a multi-millionaire who has chosen to live in a poverty area and help the poor.


**a homeless man who now runs a homeless shelter


**a batered wife who now runs a shelter that's saved 25,000 women and children


**a teacher who taught until she was 90!


**a journalist who has influenced world leaders to be accepting and tolerant


**a doctor %26amp; minister who have teamed to help lead generational welfare kids out of their pattern of poverty


**a law enforcement officer who nearly died from an on-the-job injury %26amp; now helps minorities


**a school class that mentors underprivileged 2nd graders


**a world record holder teaching kids to swim|||Anyone still doing Katrina clean up in Lousianna.





Any of the people from Red Cross who fed me from converted ambulances while I was doing clean up in Lousianna. The Red Cross should be able to put you in contact with some of them.





Kent Biffle, of the Dallas Morning News, who's been a journalist and lately Texanna specialist who's been with the News for over 40 years. He's brought an entertaining sense to the history of our state and a dry sense of humor. It's fun to laugh while I learn.





A 16 year old in Hollywood, Fla that saved $5000 of his own money, and used it for Christmas presents for the family of a man who's license was suspended. CBS 4 in Hollywood should be able to get you in touch with him.





Larry Stewart, the famed secret Santa that gave away millions to cash strapped people and built a legacy of giving.





JT|||My local hero will always be Michael Hutchence. He was a singer/songwriter/dreamer of the band INXS. He died at around the age 37 in 1997. This death was a mystery for the longest time, some accept it, but like me I think it was an accident gone wrong. He had no reason to die, he had a baby daughter, and a new wife Paula Yates/Hutchence. So Mike's death was an accident for sure. The critics don't think so, they called it Suicide.|||Local to where?


Check out names on Monuments in your local area.


Some street names are made after heros that are mostly forgotten. Ask you council or Historic society aroud your local area about any names like that|||I don't know if this woman can be classified as a "hero" so to speak, but in our local community she is well recognized for many things. First of all she was the first female prosecutor to sustain a death sentence in Louisiana. In my book that is not what makes her a hero (sure she was a tough prosecutor, tough on crime, fair and has a hear tmost prosecutors do not have) the amazing thing about tis is that she still keeps in touch with not only th evictim's family but the defendants as well. Clearely***if anyone deserved the death penaly this person did, heinous crime, no remorse etc.) she was featured in a local magazine on the cover titled "dyamic duos" a photo of her and her husband both attorneys. But the real hero in this amazing woman is tha she gave up her job as the highest paid da in the state to go out on he rown, b/c she was tired of watching the acccused not get a fair shake, a white woman about 39-40 recognized and was not afraid to admit that the judiciial system pu the poor, poverty stricken an dunfortunatley in this area that tends to be 90% black males at a severe disatvantage. The rich can hire hot shot criminal defense attorneys, the middle class can scrape up enough money to get a decent atty, but the poor get stuck wit public defenders. they are not bad attorneys per se , just overworked and undrpaid and seldom even meet the clientbefore trial, so she left her guaranteed salary, and al he rbenefits to open her own practicce so that she could "even or level the playing field" she is awesome an dnow the poor have a c hance, no she is noit free, but she takes cases , take swhat people can pay, allows slow ans small payment plans, and now the poor have a fighting chance of staying out of angola or the death chamber for a minimum fee that anyone could afford. she is also active in the march of dimes and a variewty of othe rcharities, has a handicapped child, i do not know how she does it all, but we are lucky to have her here. for more info e-mmail me.|||It depends on what your criteria is.