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Award Nominations Deadline is October 1,
2008.
Click here for more
information.
The
club gives two special awards - one annual and one as the occasion rises -
to
bring attention to particularly worthy persons:
| The Benjamin
Franklin Award |
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annually for the purpose of stimulating, encouraging and recognizing
exemplary public leadership, the Benjamin Franklin Award recognizes
those persons who, through public appointed or elected service, have
exhibited extraordinary integrity, courage and achievement.
Click here for a list of past
recipients
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The 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award was
presented on December 20, 2007 to
Robert Milligan
The
2005 Benjamin Franklin Award was
presented on March 14, 2006 (at left) to
Judge George Greer
The Benjamin Franklin bust is custom made exclusively for STBC by
local sculptor Steve Dickey. |
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The
Grassroots
Award
was most recently presented to
Emily Rogers Coeyman
on
March 14, 2006. |
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The Grassroots
Award |
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Presented on
an occasional basis, the Grassroots Award is given to a citizen whose
grassroots efforts have made a singular contribution to public policy,
either by way of having had a beneficial effect on a public issue, or
issues, or by contributing to a broader understanding of public affairs.
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Emily
Coeyman (right) shows off the Grassroots Award with former STBC Board
member Rob Eschenfelder
(L), who nominated her for the award. |
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