September 15, 2020
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Chapter Awards = "Nominate Volunteers for Awards! "
Our Chapter Volunteer Recognition Virtual Picnic is Sunday November 15th from Noon to 1:30pm and will be held via Zoom.
Please submit the names of some of those wonderful Sierra Club volunteers and the partners with whom we work who you feel should be considered for a volunteer recognition award. The categories are listed below. We have also listed a history of the awards, so you can see who has already been recognized.
Please send your nominations to Sandy Bahr at sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org with a brief statement about why the individual or group should receive the award. Please submit nominations by September 30.
The categories include:
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Behind the Scenes
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Conservationist of the Decade (given periodically)
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Conservationist of the Year
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Environmental Law (given periodically)
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Environmental Partner (folks at other supportive organizations)
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Leadership Award (only given periodically)
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Lifetime Achievement
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Outstanding Service
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Outings
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Outstanding Youth
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Special Achievement
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Steve Pawlowski Memorial Award (given to those who are working for rivers, given periodically?)
~ Sandy Bahr, Chapter Director
Grand Canyon Chapter -- Arizona
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BEHIND THE SCENES...
Don Begalke – 2007
Bill Gill – 2008
Joe Wenzel – 2009
Jerry Nelson – 2010
Debbie White – 2011
Dawson Henderson – 2012
Stormy Rose – 2013
Michelle Lund – 2015
John Sheffield – 2016
Robert Bulechek – 2017
Robert Bulechek – 2017
Chris Gehlker – 2018
Marcia Burns – 2019
CONSERVATIONIST/ENVIRONMENTALIST OF THE DECADE...
Don Steuter – 2005
Gayle Hartmann – 2013
Wendsler Nosie, Sr. – 2016
Carletta Tilousi – 2017
Tricia Gerrodette – 2018
CONSERVATIONIST/Environmentalist OF THE YEAR...
Lainie Levick – 2002
Sharon Galbreath – 2003
Rincon Group – 2004
Lynn DeMuth – 2006
Jon Findley – 2007
Tom Slaback – 2008
Kim Crumbo– 2009
Gerry McCullough – 2010
Dick Hingson – 2011
No nominations – 2012
Gary Beverly – 2013
Meg Weesner – 2014
Cyndi Tuell – 2015
Tiffany Sprague – 2017
Rebecca Hinton – 2018
Nicole Horseherder – 2019
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW...
Joy Herr-Cardillo, Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest – 2011
Roger Flynn, Western Mining Action Project - 2012
Tim Hogan, Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest – 2013
Ted Zukoski, Earthjustice – 2014
Gil Venable – 2016
ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNER...
Carolyn Campbell (Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection) – 2003
Tim Hogan (AZ Center for Law in the Public Interest) – 2004
Center for Biological Diversity – 2005
Jeff Schlegel (Southwest Energy Efficiency Project) – 2006
Cary Meister, Yuma Audubon Society – 2007
Jeff Williamson, Arizona Zoological Society – 2008
Havasupai Tribe – 2009
Arizona State Parks Foundation – 2010
Chasa O’Brien, former AZ Game and Fish Research Branch Chief – 2011
Cascabel Working Group – 2012
AZ Mining Reform Coalition – 2013
Tierra Y Libertad Organization – 2014
Great Old Broads for Wilderness – 2015
Chispa Arizona – 2016
Rachel Collay and the Earth Club Westwood High School – 2017
Wild at Heart – 2018
Borderlinks – 2019
LEADERSHIP...
Ken Langton – 2006
Lynn DeMuth – 2010
David McCaleb – 2011
Jenny Roberts – 2013
Jim Vaaler – 2015
Dale Volz – 2018
Laura Dent — 2019
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT...
Bobbie Holaday – 2002
Roy Emrick – 2004
Jack Foster, Edith Reeves – 2005
Ken McGinty – 2006
Doris Cellarius – 2007
Lee Oler – 2008
Tom Lazzelle – 2009
Keith Bagwell – 2010
Tom Sonandres – 2011
Sharon Galbreath – 2012
Ray Prendergast – 2013
Bev Full – 2014
Frank Welsh – 2014
Don Steuter – 2015
Elna Otter – 2016
Ken Langton – 2017
Jim Vaaler – 2018
Hazel Chandler – 2019
OUTINGS AWARD...
William Drabkin – 2003
Denise Berringer-Wood – 2003
Beverly Jones-Full – 2004
Bob and Nancy Sutherland – 2005
Janet Krisinski-Saxer and Chris Saxer – 2006
Shelly Eberly – 2008
Mitch Stevens – 2009
Mike Brady – 2010
Meg Weesner – 2011
Jim Vaaler – 2012
Judy Rubin and Sharon Arkin – 2013
Beth Ann Kreuger – 2014
Pete Weinelt – 2015
Carol Salvati – 2016
Kyle Kacerek – 2017
Urb Weidner – 2018
Jenny Cobb – 2019
OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD...
Jerry Nelson – 2002
Tom Lazzelle – 2003
Dale Volz, Kathy Roediger – 2004
Jim Vaaler – 2005
Halina Szyposzynski – 2006
Linda Tepper – 2007
Carole Piszczek-Sheffield – 2008
Hertha Woody – 2009
Sarah King – 2010
Cynthia Pardo – 2011
Bill Thornton – 2012
Mark Coryell – 2013
Russell Lowes – 2014
Catalina Ross – 2015
Martha Hahn – 2016
Toni Hefer – 2017
Sally Howland – 2018
Roz Switzer – 2018
Korey Hjelmeir – 2019
OUTSTANDING YOUTH AWARD...
Natalie Melkonoff – 2012
Natalie Lucas – 2013
Anna Rose Mohr-Almeida – 2014
Larissa Diaz – 2015
Kaela Hamilton – 2016
Natalia del la Torre – 2017
Joshua Knight – 2017
Stephanie Vazquez – 2018
Taj Uppal – 2019
Carmen Arredondo – 2019
OUTSTANDING YOUTH GROUP AWARD...
SEEDS/Semillas – 2017
AZ Youth Climate Strike – 2019
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT...
Bennie Blake – 2003
Jim McCarthy – 2004
Tom Slaback – 2005
Dale Volz, Keith Bagwell – 2006
Sean Sullivan, Jenny Roberts – 2007
David McCaleb – 2008
Gary Beverly – 2009
Saguaro Group – 2009
Blair McLaughlin – 2010
Elna Otter – 2011
Renée Guillory – 2012
Doug and Lynne Cockrum-Murphy – 2013
John Pifer – 2014
Jo Sylvester – 2016
Ann Aust – 2017
Greg Pentkowski – 2018
Joe Shannon – 2018
Mary Price – 2019
Sarana Riggs – 2019
STEVE PAWLOWSKI MEMORIAL AWARD...
Tom Slaback – 2014
Tricia Gerrodette – 2015
Dianne Leis and Gary Beverly – 2016
Kris Wolfe – 2018
Chuck Via – 2019
LENS ON THE BORDER...
Raechel Running – 2018
Bill Hatcher – 2019
PUBLICATIONS (We really didn’t name this one.)...
Rick Isetts – 2002 = For his many years of dedicated service as editor of the Canyon Echo 1994-2001
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