Hometown Hero: Lili Engelhardt
This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Lili Engelhardt, who was instrumental in staging this year's Touch a Truck event in Chapel Hill — a very popular event put on by UNC Children's Hospital and Troop 39 of the Boy Scouts of America. The...
Hometown Hero: Eutie Wilson, Ike McKinney, Peter LaPlaca and Other UNC Medical Center Shuttle Drivers
This week's Hometown Heroes are UNC medical center shuttle drivers — which includes folks like Eutie Wilson, Ike McKinney and Peter LaPlaca. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the drivers that take patients and their families from parking decks and the Ronald...
Hometown Hero: Eugenia Floyd from Mary Scroggs Elementary
This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Eugenia Floyd — a fourth-grade teacher at Mary Scroggs Elementary in Chapel Hill who was recently named the 2021 Burroughs Wellcome Fund North Carolina Teacher of the Year. Floyd, a graduate of the Chapel...
Hometown Hero: Ali and Brian Evans
This week's Hometown Heroes, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, are 97.9 The Hill's own Ali Evans and her husband, Brian — who stepped up to help when they came upon a car accident. Ali and Brian were the first people on the scene at a car accident on I-54 west of...
Hometown Hero: Amy Edwards from Chapel Hill Transit
This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is longtime Chapel Hill Transit operator Amy Edwards. Edwards recently retired after a long career with Chapel Hill Transit — spanning back to July 1986. "She's been serving our community for 34 years," said...
Hometown Hero: Dr. Adam Wolk
This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Dr. Adam Wolk — a physician who has been working tirelessly to get people vaccinated for COVID-19. As the three different people who separately nominated him all agree, that is just the beginning of the...
