Linda Lewandowski is This Year’s Unsung Hero

Linda Lewandowski is this year's Unsung Hero.
Linda Lewandowski is this year’s Unsung Hero.
The Knox City Council this week honored this year’s Unsung Hero, celebrating the recipient’s dedication to the community through random acts of kindness. Mayor Rick Chambers presented the award to Linda Lewandowski, who was nominated by Patty Lawson for her work to improve the community in a variety of ways.

According to the nomination letter written to Chambers by Lawson, Lewandowski is not only the director of Kid’s Closet Ministry, an organization run out of the north Judson Methodist Church to give needy families gently used clothing, but she also organized an event to give backpacks for the start of school to families. The event gave more than 100 backpacks to families in need.

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Knox City Council to Honor Unsung Hero Prior to Regular Meeting

 The Knox City Council members will be honoring the Unsung Hero prior to the start of their regular meeting tonight in Knox City Hall.

The name of the recipient hasn’t been released so the winner will be a surprise to those attending the meeting tonight at 7 p.m. CT. Knox Mayor Rick Chambers will be presenting the award to the person whom a committee has chosen as the county’s unsung hero for performing random acts of kindness.

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