A Virginia nonprofit is using volunteers to pack personalized boxes of clothing and other items for children who lack access to proper clothes.
Boxes of Basics founder Sarah Tyndall started the organization in 2018. A thousand volunteers have since built custom care packages for more than 8,500 children across Virginia.
Brothers Bobby and Lance Snyder have a combined eight decades of service with American Airlines at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
They help make sure planes arrive and depart safely and on time at the airline’s second-largest hub. Their commitment is inspiring their younger co-workers.
Seventh graders at Winneconne Middle School are painting pet portraits for a community project. Students in Susan Meunier’s new leadership class are tracing and painting portraits of pets. Vaughn Wurtz and her classmates are working on the project at the school.
Atsuo Sakurai and his wife, Heather, make award-winning sake at a shop just off Route 66 in Holbrook. Heather Sakurai is from the Navajo Nation. The couple combine their cultures in the bottle. Sakurai said one of the sakes uses Navajo tea.
Sam Aguiar, who has been a personal injury attorney since 2008, launched a campaign that put up motivational messages around Louisville.