This week’s Hometown Hero is Polla Mulligan, founder of WNY’s “White Whiskers Senior Dog Sanctuary,” which is in the process of renovating an old VFW post in Akron, NY as a new home for senior dogs.

Steve Taybor of the Buffalo satellite of “Eight Days of Hope” in Buffalo is this week’s Hometown Hero.

This week it’s Pastor Steve Bigner of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Eggertsville, NY, talking about their Daily Bread food truck ministry.

Pastor Eric Johns with the Buffalo Dream Center lives homeless for a week in Buffalo each year at Thanksgiving.

This week’s Hometown Hero is Theo Braddy of Lower Paxton Township, PA. He’s a quadriplegic since a football accident at age 15, a long-time advocate for the disabled in central Pennsylvania, and newly-appointed to the president’s National Council on Disability.

Today’s Hometown Hero is youth pastor Tim Swan of Binghamton’s East Side Learning Center. It’s an afterschool program run by Grace Baptist Church – bringing fun – and the gospel – to kids on the city’s east side.

This edition of Hometown Heroes features Carissa Penman-Moyer and her daughter, Isabelle, speaking about their family’s involvement in the Great Cycle Challenge, raising money for research into ending childhood cancer, and putting biblical principles into action in the process.

This week’s Hometown Hero is Kim Reynolds. She heads up the Resurrection Life Food Pantry in Cheektowaga, New York.

This week’s Hometown Heroes is Jessica Shirey, a media relations volunteer for the West Central PA Area team of Operation Christmas Child.

John Cooper Jr. serves veterans and other men at the Niagara Gospel Rescue Mission in Niagara Falls, NY.