Students name 7 Ordinary Heroes
Published: March 9, 2005
Local students have selected seven residents to bear the title Wareham Ordinary Hero. The seven will be honored at a June 13 ceremony at Wareham High School.
The program originally was planned for May, but it was changed to avert a conflict with the administration of the MCAS standardized tests, organizers said.
In conjunction with the Community Service Learning Center, students in Grades 5 and 9 wrapped up the year-long project to honor people who make the town a better place.
The criteria for nomination required that the candidates be responsible, honest, optimistic, hard working, reliable, courageous, thoughtful, resilient and respectful.
The winners are:
# James Potter and Christian Fernandes, co-founders of the Onset Bay Movie Co. The nonprofit organization presents free family movies each week during the summer at the Lillian Gregerman Bandshell in Onset.
# Police Officer Peter Silvia, who oversees the Wareham Police Department’s DARE program.
# Wareham High School student Thuy Le, whose family left their native Vietnam for Wareham in 1992. Now 18, Ms. Le is a volunteer at the Good Shepherd Soup Kitchen and is a member of the National Honor Society.
# Marcine Fernandes, foster care and homeless education liaison for the Wareham public schools.
# Richard Kiernan, 88, a former firefighter and photographer, who was nominated by his great-granddaughter.
# Community volunteer Mary Ann Bostrom, founder of the 3-year-old Read to Succeed program.
The students who selected the heroes interviewed each candidate and wrote brief biographies about them that will be read at the awards ceremony.
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