Good luck getting Angela White to sit still for long. The Newcastle businesswoman, mother, housewife, and community volunteer seemingly lives in perpetual motion.

Almost every day of the work week, Samantha Mehlhorn is on the road in Lincoln County. In her capacity as the Healthy Lincoln County Community Routes project coordinator, it is her job to get the things people need into their hands as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Scott Pendleton was commanding a 780-foot long freighter, located about 36 miles inland on the Shatt al Arab, one Iraq’s major tidal rivers. He’d spent the previous evening drinking beer with British marines and now the local pilot hired to get the vessel back to the open ocean was proving to be no help.

For a guy who once said out loud he would never enter the family business, Mike Hall gives every impression he loves what he does for a living.

Shawn Gallagher still remembers his first impression of the Southport Central School. While waiting to interview for a support staff position in 2013, it was suggested Gallagher observe lunch when his scheduled interview was delayed a few minutes.