On April 2, 2-year-old Delora Gragg was airlifted to the hospital after being struck by a 10,000-pound track loader.

At the Burke County Commissioners meeting on July 20, little Delora chattered, giggled, and smiled in a dress covered in butterflies as her parents corralled her to the front of the room during a “Recognition of Life Savers” ceremony, the scars from that day prominent and pink, but healing.