He has spent more than a year helping his neighbour clear his garden and has had other people with hoarding problems contact him after featuring in a documentary on Mr Wallace.
Gallery owner Lucy Quinnell led a campaign to buy and preserve a 57-acre plot of woodland in North Leatherhead as a nature reserve and education resource for the community.
She spent more than a year organising the Friends of Teazle Wood campaign and raising funds for the project which despite set backs, came to fruition this summer.
A "guerrilla knitting group" brought smiles to the faces of Dorking residents by adorning the town's giant metal cockerel with topical knitwear.
The "Knit and Knatter" group covered the cockerel in red, white and blue before the Jubilee weekend, a giant knitted medal before the Olympics and a Christmas hat and beard this week.
Corporal Rory Mackenzie, an Army veteran who lost his right leg in Iraq, completed an 8,000-mile row across the Atlantic to raise £1 million for wounded soldiers.
The former army medic from Capel, who completed the challenge as part of a six-man team, also spoke in front of 80,000 people at the Olympic Stadium for the Paralympic Games closing ceremony.
OLYMPICS organisers Locog refused to allow village magazine The Box Hill News to be sold on Box Hill during the cycle race as it was not an official sponsor.
They also scuppered a world record attempt for the longest line of moving bicycles straight after the road race by saying the roads would have to be reopened after it passed through, then closed again to stage the event.
The Royal British Legion made County Field Officer Canon Peter Bruinvels, described as "Saint Peter" by one branch president, redundant.
Mr Bruinvels, of Dorking, oversaw fundraising of more than £9.6 million in just under 11 years and agreed to continue co-ordinating this year's Poppy Appeal in Surrey in a voluntary capacity despite losing his job in a restructure.
People misusing 999 were criticised for draining valuable resources after police revealed only 19 per cent of calls required an emergency response.
Calls included "I've found a spider in my living room", "I've run out of beer" and "I need a taxi" and hospitals also revealed they received many unnecessary visits to A&E departments.
Fly-tippers have blighted beauty spots across Mole Valley as National Trust rangers reported the crime is now at its "highest level in years".
Over one fortnight the National Trust had to spend more than £1,000 clearing garden waste and builders' rubble. As well as the financial cost, the waste is harmful to humans and a hazard to wildlife.
