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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:
 
 
 
  • Behind the Scenes
  • Conservationist of the Decade (given periodically)
  • Conservationist of the Year
  • Environmental Law (given periodically)
  • Environmental Partner (folks at other supportive organizations)
  • Leadership Award (only given periodically)
  • Lifetime Achievement
  • Outstanding Service
  • Outings
  • Outstanding Youth
  • Special Achievement
  • Steve Pawlowski Memorial Award (given to those who are working for rivers, given periodically?)

 

 

 ~ Sandy Bahr, Chapter Director

 


Grand Canyon Chapter -- Arizona

 

Previous...
 
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
 
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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