Ron Dean and Eric Head are part of a team of 10 amusement ride inspectors for the state of Ohio who inspect and license around 4,000 individual rides throughout the year.

WYSO went behind the scenes with a Greene County park ranger and discovered how their jobs extend beyond the park borders and into our communities, helping to keep the public safe.

Only 36% of Americans have written or talked to loved ones about their end-of-life plans, according to the National Funeral Directors Association.

Inspectors' jobs with the Clark County Combined Health District take them all over the county, from kitchens and campgrounds, to backyards and body art studios, making sure that the community stays safe and healthy.

National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton is powered by volunteers. They took WYSO behind-the-scenes at the famed museum to show what inspires them to volunteer their time.

Welcome Home Dayton works to welcome formerly homeless people into a newly furnished home, complete with personal design touches.

Swallow Hill Jersey Dairy in Bowersville, Ohio, is a family farm that runs a popular, small self-serve roadside milk shed.

Jim Lyons, known as That Crazy Bee Guy, inspects beehives for three counties around Dayton, Ohio, and the Miami Valley, as well as sells honey, mead and honey products.

Everyday People is WYSO’s series that shines a light on the jobs, and people who do them, that touch our lives in ways that we don’t always understand or appreciate. In this episode Renee Wilde rides along with a zoning and code inspector for Centerville, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio.

Renee Wilde traveled to the Stephen Bell Elementary school in Bellbrook at lunch time to talk to the cafeteria staff who the students, and parents, call "Lunch Heroes."