“I want you to know that there is no one in our organization who is more loyal and passionate than Morgan," Soboeiro wrote. "She has worked incredibly hard during the COVID epidemic, spending the majority of her weekends testing and then vaccinating people for the virus.

When Christin Danchi started a store-bought cross stitch pattern of a European streetscape she was a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Now 35 years old, Danchi managed to cash in on her effort many years later when she won two awards for her finished work at The North Carolina State Fair.