The former Dayton Convention & Visitors Bureau unveiled their new name, Destination Dayton, during the annual celebration and awards breakfast at Carillon Historical Park.
call for organ donors, he stepped up and say he would give a kidney no matter who needed it. there s no impetus. it s not that someone in particular was sick or any one story, knowing that it s going to make such a big difference is a pretty big deal. reporter: turns out the recipient was surprisingly a fellow public servant. al barberi, diagnosed with kidney cancer and waiting for a donor for more than a years. i was a young healthy guy, i was a firefighter, active, responding to calls, and all of a sudden here i am, i was the guy who s sick. and you re not used to being the guy who s sick. reporter: al s wife, debby, was was going to give him one of her kiddies. but then i wasn t compatible. reporter: but then something else surprising happened. since her husband was being saved by brian, a stranger, debby decided to pay it forward and offer her kidney to anyone who would need it. i never thought i would be a match to anybody and we got the phone call, because i was
shocked. reporter: shocked, because the day brian, al, and debby all went into surgery, so did 74-year-old ed cranepool, the last stop on this short chain of remarkable kindness. he dot debby s kidney. who is he? i ve had two in my life, the mets and reporter: that s right, ed was the first baseman for those miracle mets so long ago. local hero. i m a yankee fan. really nothing s going to change that. reporter: but then, they were all heros this day, hitting a grand slam of giving. with this transplant, i ll be able to see my children, see them graduate, i ll be able to go to their weddings, i ll be able to see my grandchild and that s so special to me. reporter: tom foreman, cnn, new york. what a lovely story. and that tom foreman, man, can