By Melissa Segrest

They are our neighbors, family, friends and co-workers. The most essential of workers across Central Texas includes the doctors, nurses and medical staffers; the food pantry workers and donors; and the emergency first responders.

But there are others: the teacher working from behind a computer instead of in front of a classroom to keep students learning, the dressmaker who started mass-producing masks for the community, and the small distillery that switched from making bourbon to pumping out hand sanitizer.

Their actions don’t make the evening news. They aren’t walking away wealthy from their efforts, and they aren’t seeking medals. They are just good people who want to help others.

The 10 people profiled here are a sample of the innumerable Bluebonnet-area residents choosing to help their communities. They may not consider themselves heroes, but together their efforts are heroic.

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