Thursday’s snowfall kept North Olympic Peninsula law enforcement, road crews and public transit agencies busy overnight as snow began falling in the late afternoon and lasted into the evening.
JACKSON TWP. Melanie Bowles has a drive to help others.
Bowles, 29, of Jackson Township, fosters dogs for FREEdom Tails Ohio, a nonprofit rescue created to save animals from breeding situations, including puppy mills.
She has been involved with the organization for about three years and dove head-first into volunteering. It was almost instantly when we received our first foster, I realized how passionate I was about it, she said.
She hasn t stopped at fostering. She s also active behind the scenes answering the rescue s emails, onboarding other foster parents and processing applications. In many ways, it s a job, just without vacation days, sick time or a paycheck.
Nurse practitioner Deb Maxwell was laid off in March when the coronavirus pandemic halted home health visits.
The Massillon resident, who has worked as a nurse for eight years including the last three years as a certified nurse practitioner, already had another job lined up to start in June, so she wasn’t too worried about the loss of income.
She worried about the patients, especially those in nursing homes, who needed her.
Because of her dedication to her patients, Maxwell has been named one of The Canton Repository’s six Unsung Heroes for 2020. (The Massillon Independent and Canton Repository are sister newspapers.)
Unsung hero: Dale Brownfield helps keep Canton skateboarding
CANTON Dale Brownfield grew up in Akron riding BMX bikes at Derby Downs and skateboarding.
But if he wanted a skateboard ramp, he had to build it. The now 50-year-old Canton resident raised his daughter as a skateboarder, driving out of state to find more than prefabricated, metal ramps.
As president of the Canton Skateboard Association (CSA) the past four years, he s invested significant time and money into the 9th Street DIY skate park at 707 Schroyer Ave. SW in Canton. Just this year, the CSA invested about $6,000 in the park to repair surface cracks and build concrete ramps.