Can you think of someone whose photo belongs on this wall?
The Hometown Heroes wall located on the first floor of City Hall.
Decatur launched it’s Hometown Heroes recognition and celebration in the summer of 1996 at the close of the Hometown to the World festival during the Olympics.
Now is the time to begin thinking of your favorite Decatur Hometown Hero – someone who works hard, often behind the scenes, to make our community a better place to live and work. Nominate that person for recognition as a 2009 Hometown Hero. Nominations will be accepted until Sept. 15.
For more information and for a nomination application visit the City’s Hometown Heroes webpage.
GOOD NEWS STORY
A customer, who had come into Heliotrope with her baby to shop, made her purchase and proceeded to her car parked across WePo in front of the CVS. She sat her bag on the sidewalk while she got her child seated for the ride home. Upon arriving home, she realized what she had done.
Meanwhile, one of Decatur’s great PALS, Jonathan Scheffel, while making his appointed rounds, noticed the bag in front of CVS with no car in that spot, saw the Heliotrope logo and dutifully took it to the store.
The customer made her way back to CVS to find the bag gone. She decided to take a wild chance (knowing that her goods had been lost) and came in the store. When she heard me call out that I was so happy she had come back, here are your things, she became visibly emotional, with me soon to follow, and said her faith in the inherent goodness of people had been fully restored. (She asked her girl, “What were we looking for?” “Bag,” she replied and pointed to the counter.)
Jonathan Scheffel – Today’s Decatur Hometown Hero!