I mean, I suspect you would start with the city's highest profile politician, the Honorable Mayor Robert Garcia, who holds the distinction of voting for Democrats Kamala Harris and then Joe Biden during their presidential pursuits and of recently being nominated by Mr. Biden for a position I'm sure is a lifetime dream come true for Mr. Garcia---serving as a trustee for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.

Wow! What a coup! Good for Robert!

Who ever envisioned Mr. Garcia, a one-time Long Beach State student body president who played a major role in forming the LB Young Republicans, being inextricably linked to the 33rd president of the United States?

Ol' Blood And Guts Robert meet Give 'Em Hell Harry.

What an honor for Mr. Garcia!

But there are so many others around who deserve acclaim for accomplishments out of the realm of normality like, say, Dr. Mark Hoffer, a Spinnaker Cove resident who can be found every early morning swimming a mile at Alamitos Bay near Bay Shore Ave.

Dr. Mark Hoffer, 86, drying off after completing daily one mile Alamitos Bay swim

Not bad for a gentleman who is a mere 86 years old!

But Mr. Hoffer's background even exceeds his aquatic feats---the Queens New York native was a renowned orthopedic surgeon who worked, among other hospitals, at Rancho Los Amigos in Downey, who for 10 years was the chairman of orthopedic surgery at the UC Irvine Medical School, who was a Navy lieutenant who spent four years on submarines and who was a colonel in the Army Reserve.

He was called up during Operation Desert Storm in January of 1991, and served as a trauma surgeon in a hospital tent in the Saudi Arabian desert and also was called to service in the Balkans during the Kosovo conflict two years earlier.

An incredible man who remains incredibly fit---and says he never misses a day of swimming a bit more than 1,609 meters, which few human beings on the planet Earth can claim at his advanced age.

``What do you attribute to your healthy longevity?'' I asked.

``Genetics,'' says Mr. Hoffer, whose slim 5-foot-6, 142-pound frame certainly I'm sure is a contributing factor. ``My father lived to be 96. And my mother was 88 when she passed.''

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Earth Man Jeff Yount takes a break during daily 15-mile walk

Still, when one walks 15 miles every day across five hours, when one records his mileage as having reached 15,275 since beginning such a wacky addiction on Dec. 17, 2017, when one has dropped 65 pounds during this span (from 260 to 195), it certainly earns Mr. Yount a place among Long Beach's Most Amazing People.

I mean, who in the hell squanders valuable reading time and dozens of tennis shoes walking five hours daily around Long Beach?

Mr. Yount is a friendly sort who once played the drums in many bands and made a few bucks in the mid 90s when he became a much sought-after web designer in a fledging industry known as the Internet.

``I designed hundreds of them,'' he says with a smile.

And what culinary snack does he partake in after the conclusion of his long journeys?

``Peanut butter,'' he actually says with a straight face. . .