Medfield Foundation 2014 Volunteer Recognition Reception
3:00 PM, Sunday, March 23 at The Center at Medfield
The Medfield Foundation is pleased to announce that the following people will be celebrated at the recognition reception next Sunday at 3:00 PM, Sunday, March 23 at The Center at Medfield, One Ice House Road. All were nominated for special recognition by fellow residents for doing extraordinary volunteer work.
Youth Volunteer of the Year
- Andrea Nevins for initiating the Miss Amazing Massachusetts event, and for volunteering with the Medfield High School Student Council, Project 351 Alumni Leadership Council, Boston Cares Teen Advisory Council, Best Buddies, Special Olympics, and as a Adaptive skiing volunteer instructor.
- Dina Roche for running food drives to benefit the Medfield Food Cupboard at the Montrose School for the past five years.
- Siddharth Arun for starting and running the Chess Club at the Library, and also for volunteering at Norwood Hospital, and teaching chess in other places.
- Wesley, Corey, & Aaron Dron for being great and caring neighbors to a couple needing assistance.
Volunteer of the Year
- John Thompson for his work with the Medfield State Hospital Mediation Committee, and also for the State Hospital Environmental Review Committee, Medfield Archeology Advisory Committee, Medfield Conservation Commission, Friends of the Dwight Derby House, Vine Lake Preservation Trust, and Port of Galilee Advisory Committee Narragansett RI Town Council.
- Sonja Johanson for her work with the Victory Garden at the Wheelock School, and also the Wheelock School Site Council, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association.
- Kim Price for her work with the Medfield Coalition for Public Education, and also for the Medfield Kids PMC, and Dale St. School CSA.
Lifetime Achievement
- Andy Thompson for his work with Little League, Soccer, Lacrosse, Ice Hockey, Boy Scouts, Medfield Park & Recreation Commission, operating the football scoreboard for 47 years, Medfield Physical Fitness Association for 48 years, The Center, the American Legion, and MPRC activities at Medfield Day.
Click to see the announcement for:
- All the volunteers
- Andy Thompson who received the Lifetime Achievement Award
- John Thompson who is the Volunteer of the Year
- Andrea Nevins who is the Youth Volunteer of the Year
Now all Medfield gets to hear their interesting stories, about why they were nominated, what they do, and why they do it. The MFi’s 2014 volunteer recognition reception provides an afternoon of storytelling by and about these exceptional volunteers – anyone is welcome to attend, and all are guaranteed to be entertained.
The seventh annual MFi volunteer awards are again sponsored by the generosity of the Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation (for the third year).
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Hi Pete,
I posted photos on PATCH from today’s volunteer event and ‘borrowed” your write up on each recipient/nominee…I disclosed that it was taken from your blog…I hope it’s okay! This is up on my blog on PATCH, and might be “spotlighted” on tomorrow’s PATCH.
Thank you,
Colleen Sullivan
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Colleen,
Thank you for attending, photographing, and then posting about the Medfield Foundation volunteer of the year event and the extraordinary volunteers who were being honored. It is absolutely alright to use anything. The goal of the MFi volunteer of the year event is all about giving recognition to the volunteers, so the more they can be celebrated in as many places as possible the better. You borrowed from what I had written about the volunteers, which I in turn had borrowed from what the nominators had written about his or her nominee.
Pete
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