Hometown Hero

Brainerd is the powerhouse executive director behind the Wade Center. While she may be the executive director, she will be the first to tell you educating our children and executing the mission of this place is not only a team effort, but a community one.

There’s something special about doing for others whether they’re on two legs or four and no one understands that more intimately than Kim Bay with the Mercer County Humane Society.

With a buzz and snip Alfred ‘Jack’ Repass was born into the barber business--and serving our community for decades.

Piano keys and stethoscopes on the surface may not have much in common, but look a little closer and they both require a delicate touch. In this a edition of Hometown Hero Joshua Bolden introduces us to a doctor with a intricate musicality.

Mercer county native Shellie Simpson, known to students as Dr. Shellie, is in her fourth year as principal at Brushfork Elementary School.

Bluefield native Cody Fuller was a student at Marshall University when he signed up to donate stem cells.

For more than thirty years, Vicky Lothery has been working as a coder at Clinch Valley Physicians Associates in Cedar Bluff.

Stephen Eades has served the community of Ansted in public service roles for the past three decades.

Mike Goins has been working with the Bluefield Virginia Little League for nearly 30 years.