The Covington Digital News Digital Edition April 24, 2015 | Page 7

Friday, April 24, 2015

IN DEPTH

Hometown
Heroes
winners
2014
Katlyn Williams

2013
Jim Dial

2012
Jason Cripps

2011
Pam Dew

2010
Kelli Hopkins
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her 55 invitees, Williams decided to tell them not to bring gifts
but to donate to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Thanks to her selflessness Williams raised $800 for the
Michael J. Fox Foundation and the American Parkinson’s
Disease Association.
Parkinson’s is a disease Williams wants to help fight due to
the condition she saw her grandfather in.
“He couldn’t remember family
members, and he was really a smart man. CLICK HERE
He was a professor at the University of
Mississippi,” Williams said.
The other finalist for the Hometown
to watch
Hero was Marine Corporal Bryce Burton.
Burton won a national award at the
Burton’s
2014 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation
short film
dinner for his film “Commitment” about
Sgt. Gallegos, who had suffered second- ‘Commitment’
and third-degree burns from an accident that won him a
in Iraq. But after a six-year recovery
national award
period, which included 156 surgeries
and physical therapy, Gallegos reenlisted
in the Marine Corps. He started school at Camp Lejeune to
become an administrative clerk.
The short film chronicled what it was like to walk in
Gallegos’ shoes.

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