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Hometown Heroes

Hometown Heroes are everyday Americans working to make their community—or their world—a better place.
Lowell and Valerie Eggert welcome guests to their backyard railroad in Grove, Okla.Approved by city officials in 2005, the Atlanta BeltLine Redevelopment Plan is designed to make Atlanta a more walkable and livable city.First_flipper_FINALtornado-bravery
GreenShields team members Tommy Mills, Jonny Cohen, Rachel Glikin and Griffin Rutstein hold the latest life-size fiberglass prototype of GreenShields.

Teen Saves Money with School Bus Retrofit

Pepsi Refresh project helps ‘science nerd’ Jonny Cohen build first Greenshields

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Ken Nedimyer displays coral grown in an underwater nursery to help restore coral reefs off of the Florida Keys.

Meet Four Real-Life Guardians of the Sea

Four environmental heroes protecting our oceans

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Tom Hendrix built a mile-long rock wall in northwest Alabama as a memorial to his great-great-grandmother, a Yuchi Indian who traveled the Trail of Tears.

Te-lah-nay’s Wall

Alabama man honors ancestor who traveled the Trail of Tears

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A Little Free Library in Walker, Minn., is fashioned after a Victorian-style home.

Little Free Libraries

Sharing books, building community

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Emily Snider gazes at a glazed pastry.

Cops & Doughnuts

Clare, Michigan, cops rescue hometown bakery

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Teacher Barb Bratvold with members of her Evansville Kindness Club in Evansville, Minn.

Minnesota Students Share Cards and Kindness

Evansville Kindness Club delivers 47,000 cards to ill, mourning, lonely or struggling residents

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At 87, Helen Deneka may be the nation’s oldest working nurse.

Meet the Nation’s Oldest Working Nurse

Tennessee nurse cares for patients for seven decades

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Zuraida Dutra with firefighting friends in Turlock, Calif.

Acts of Kindness 2012

Readers share stories about compassionate and generous acts of kindness performed by friends, family, neighbors and strangers

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Random Acts of Kindness

Each year, "American Profile" invites readers to share heartwarming stories about ordinary people doing thoughtful deeds without expecting recognition or acknowledgement in return. Here are…

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Meals on Wheels Publishes Celebrity Cookbook

‘Made with Love’ filled with family recipes from politicians, poets, actors and others

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The original farmhouse where the Koziars' grew up in all lit up.

Koziar’s Christmas Village

Pennsylvania family lights up the farm for more than 60 years

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