24 Hours — Sarah Gordon

A collaborative multimedia series with reporter Sara Schilling documenting 24 hours in the Tri-City area, spending each hour of the day with a different person. What will their hours tell us - about who they are, about who we are?

Twenty-four hours.

They can pass in the blink of an eye, or ever so slowly.

They can be filled with mundane tasks, with ordinary things. Or with big and significant moments.

Or a little of both.

Either way, they’re important.

They count.

Twenty-four hours.

A day.

Today.

It’s all the time we ever have, so it matters how we spend it.

Zade Hakki cleans the espresso machine while working at 12 a.m. on the graveyard shift at Dutch Bros. Coffee on Clearwater Avenue in Kennewick. For Hakki the job isn’t about making coffee but the conversations with customers.

Co-workers Jake Daniels, left, and Garrit Farrell, right, stop to visit Zade Hakki while he’s working in Kennewick. For many who work at Dutch Bros., their co-workers become family and they spend many off-the-clock hours hanging out at the coffee s

12 A.M. For Zade Hakki, 19, his job is about more than making coffee. A lot more. A 'broista' on the graveyard shift at Dutch Bros. Coffee in Kennewick for him the job is the conversations he has with customers. He remembers one night over the holidays he spent 45 minutes in the cold windowsill talking to a man who drove up at 2 a.m. He doesn't remember what the conversation was about but he remembers what the man said when he drove away, 'Hey' he said 'I was going to kill myself tonight. Thank you so much for talking to me and making me feel like someone cares about me.'

"I just thought I was making a cup of coffee for a dude, just talking," Hakki recounts, shaking. "It's crazy what that can do."

Patsy Haeg, an emergency room charge nurse, changes the sheets on the bed. She has been working at Trios Health for over 38 years. Most of those years have been spent on the overnight shift.

Patsy Haeg, an overnight charge nurse in the emergency department at Trios Southridge Hospital in Kennewick, talks with a patient during the 1 a.m. hour.

Patsy Haeg, an overnight charge nurse in the emergency department at Trios Southridge Hospital in Kennewick, laughs as she talks with coworkers during the 1 a.m. hour.

Patsy Haeg, an overnight charge nurse in the emergency department at Trios Southridge Hospital in Kennewick, talks with coworkers during the 1 a.m. hour

Patsy Haeg, an overnight charge nurse in the emergency department at Trios Southridge Hospital in Kennewick, talks with coworker Loran Judy while getting supplies in the medication room during the 1 a.m. hour

1 A.M. It was a little after 1 a.m. in the emergency department at Trios Southridge Hospital and all the patients -there were only three at the moment- were taken care of. But overnight charge nurse Patsy Haeg, 61, still had plenty to do. "They call me den mother around here," said Haeg. And she is, not just of her son's cub scout group but of her family, her coworkers and her patients.

Carol LeCompte, 66, of Kennewick, says praying in the early morning hours is renewing. “You cannot come into our Lord’s presence and not be changed,” she said.

Carol LeCompte, 66, of Kennewick, sits quietly as she prays at the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Kennewick during the 2 a.m. hour. LeCompte, who is the coordinator of the program, spends a few early morning hours a wee

Carol LeCompte, 66, of Kennewick, is the coordinator of the perpetual adoration devotion and ministry program at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Kennewick. About 200 volunteers take turns praying and worshipping God in the chapel around the clock.

Carol LeCompte, 66, of Kennewick, holds rosary beads and prays in the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Kennewick during the 2 a.m. hour.

2 A.M. In the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Joseph Catholic Church you can almost hear the candles flicker. That is exactly how Carol LeCompte, 66 of Kenenwick, likes her second home. LeCompte, who helped organize the program in 1997, now manages the 200 volunteers who take turns praying and worshipping God in the chapel around the clock. She frequently volunteers for overnight shifts, subbing when others are absent.

Angela Deahl, an equipment operator, stands in front of a wall of equipment during her overnight shift at the Columbia Generating Station near Richland. Deahl, who started her career in the Navy, is one of two women on a team of 39 equipment operat

Angela Deahl inspects a piece of equipment during her overnight shift at the Columbia Generating Station near Richland.

Angela Deahl, an equipment operator, pauses in the quiet of the elevator near the end of her overnight shift at the Columbia Generating Station near Richland.

3 A.M. Angela Deahl isn't a coffee drinker. Her six years in the Navy didn't her her hooked on the stuff and neither did years of shift work as an equipment operator at the Columbia Generating Station. Deahl knows her way through the complicated maze of machinery, long hallways and heavy doors. It all makes sense to her, one of two women on a team of 39 at the only commercial nuclear power plant in the region. "I don't even think about it," she said of being the only woman. "I just do my job."

Mary Wister has been watching weather since she was a kid. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pendleton for over two decades she uses advanced technology to keep an eye on the weather and inform the public, even overnight.

Various weather maps and computer screens of satellite and radar images frame meterologist Mary Wister as she talks to a co-worker during an overnight shift at the National Weather Service in Pendleton. With two decades in the field, Wister has see

Meteoroligists Mary Wister, right, and Rachel Cobb work on forecasts during a recent overnight shift at the National Weather Service in Pendleton

4 A.M. Mary Wister fell in love with weather as a kid. She'd watch the weather reports at night with her father, pore over old weather maps used by pilots and measure hail with a cartoon ruler wearing her brothers football helmet for protection. Now the 45 year-old meteorologist has returned to the forecast desk at National Weather Service in Pendleton after a few years in management. "I'd sit in my office and long to be out in the open room surrounded by the maps trying to understand this complicated thing we call weather," she said of her time as the boss.

Steven Whitehead talks to Jordan Gray, a Kennewick High School junior, during a early morning training session with high school athletes at Elite Ambitions Training in Kennewick. Whitehead, founder and owner of E.A.T., came to Kenenwick in 2011 to

Steven Whitehead spots Jared Gray, Kennewick High School junior, as he lifts weights during a early morning training session with high school athletes at Elite Ambitions Training in Kennewick. Whitehead, founder and owner of E.A.T., says he isn't a

A photo of Steven Whitehead from his Tri-Cities Fever days hangs on the wall with other professional athletes during early morning fitness classes and weight training at Elite Ambitions Training in Kennewick. .  Whitehead is the founder and own

Steven Whitehead helps Justice Aragon, a senior at Chiawana High School, with her form while doing a squat during a early morning training session with high school athletes at Elite Ambitions Training in Kennewick. Whitehead, founder and owner of E

5 A.M. Steven Whitehead speaks with a Louisiana slow drawl not often heard in the northwest. A place he never expected to stay for long. When he was recruited to play for the Tri-Cities Fever he saw it as a quick step in his football career. As he got involved in the community he saw a need for youth sports training and grew his passion of working with young athletes. Through Elite Ambitions Whitehead and his team offer sports performance training for kids from elementary through high school, even offering a scholarship program. A group of high school football players listen intently to him during a weight training session before school at 5:30 a.m. "We're like the mechanics, helping to tune up the young athletes," Whitehead said. Somewhere along the way many of his kids also find their way to becoming better students, better people.