Each morning and afternoon, school bus drivers and crossing guards in Modesto end their shifts thankful when the children they are entrusted to protect make it to school and back home again, safe and sound. And that's quite an accomplishment given what many find are dangerous driving habits by inattentive parents.
Heroes are born of circumstance and reaction, never of indecision. Pilot Bill Cavanaugh is alive, his son said, because an unlikely quartet acted quickly and decisively while risking their lives to save his.
Marissa McLeod had what psychiatrists call "the perfect outer shell" -- ambition, beauty, great grades. But the Ripon girl took her own life at age 17. Now, her mother has established Marissa's Closet, a non-profit that continues Marissa's desire to help girls who can't afford to buy gowns look their best on prom night.
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