We’re all Magic Citizens, but these three stood out this week …

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• Greg Yaghmai is going running next weekend. But it’s no ordinary jog: His 100-mile ultra-marathon (“one of the most brutal events on the planet”) has a special mission, to raise $10,000 to help a Hoover girl with her medical bills. The Birmingham attorney has trained for 15 months and wants a thousand donors at $10 each to help 7-year-old Emily Knerr, diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Read how you can donate: “Birmingham lawyer Greg Yaghmai plans 100-mile run to help Hoover girl fight ovarian cancer.”

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• Marti Kilpatrick is just another Birmingham food blogger. Who happened to write at Southern Living magazine, then advanced in the kitchen at Bottega, one of Frank Stitt’s Southside restaurants. Nowadays, she continues to blog at Blank Palate, but from San Sebastián, Spain. Oh, and she was featured on CNN.com in the Eatocracy blog. Amazing. “Blogger Spotlight: Blank Palate.”

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• If you saw a burning truck across the interstate and thought someone might be danger, what would you do? Brent Mitchell found himself there Wednesday night along I-65. The 42-year-old Hoover resident left his wife and daughter, darted across six lanes of traffic and jumped over a median, but fell more than 60 feet to his death. His wife Monica Mitchell said, “He was always just a genuine helper. If something was wrong, he wanted to fix it.” “Good Samaritan who died trying to assist trucker on I-65 remembered as ‘genuine helper’ all his life.”

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• MCers: Know a Magic Citizen who deserves recognition? Let us know about him or her.

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