City of Destiny Award Nominations Due Jan 18th (11. January 2010, 09:16 by Derek Young) ~ It's Monday. Do It Now!
We were just reminded that the City of Tacoma’s City of Destiny Award nominations are due next Monday January 18th, 2010. These annual award promote the importance of community service and recognize individuals and groups who make outstanding contributions in Tacoma. Do yo know a great volunteer? Now’s the time to give them the recognition they deserve!
Nominations are being accepted in the following individual and group categories:
- Leadership – There are two awards in this category. One award will be given to one adult and one award will be given to one youth (up to 18 years of age) for individual leadership that inspires others to help meet a need in the community.
- Sustained Service – There are two awards in this category. One award will be given to one adult and one award will be given to one youth (up to 18 years of age) for dedicated service that benefits the community performed over an extended period of time.
- Neighborhood Group or Community Partnership – This award will honor a group of volunteers demonstrating teamwork on a project that benefits the community.
- Corporation or Business – This award honors a corporation or business instrumental in developing or supporting community programs. Requirements for this category include a program that is initiated by management, has voluntary participation and demonstrates the involvement of employees in community activities.
- Employee Group or Union Group – This award honors employees of businesses, unions or governmental entities instrumental in developing or supporting community or environmental programs. There must be a program that is initiated by employees, has voluntary participation and demonstrates the involvement of employees in community activities.
- Youth or Young Adult Group – This award recognizes dedicated service performed by a youth or young adult group for a period of time that benefits the community. Nominees must be up to 18 years of age.
- Environmental Sustainability – This award honors groups or individuals dedicated to improving, conserving or protecting the environment. This category is open to all ages.
The Citizens Recognition Committee will review the nominations and select the winners. The City Council will present the City of Destiny Awards to the winners and recognize nominees at a ceremony on May 11, 2010 at the Stadium High School.
To obtain a nomination form, call Maria Lee in the City’s Community Relations Office at (253) 591-2054, or stop by the office, 733 Market St., Room 11, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can also pick up nomination forms in the City Clerk’s Office, Tacoma Municipal Building, 747 Market St., Room 220. You can download an electronic copy of the nomination form from the City of Tacoma’s Web site at www.cityoftacoma.org/destinyawards.
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Time for a virtual beauty pageant to subtly suggest personal hopes of nomination. Here’s my entry:
[stage left, vicinity of pink podium]
Presenter asks:
“Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans believe the Tacoma Dome is a 360-degree-view gunner’s bubble designed as accessory for a Toyota truck. Why do you think this is?”
My Response:
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.
4 | Posted by captiveyak | Jan 11, 03:11 PM
Captiveyak, if you’ve a plastic smile and a great set of purchased bolt-ons to go with that little speech, you have a future with the pagent circut.
5 | Posted by Christine | Jan 11, 04:07 PM
Rick Talbert has more ‘educations’ in his pinky fingernail than captiveyak has in his whole 140 character body.
Rick Talbert for Everything!
6 | Posted by RR Anderson | Jan 11, 04:22 PM
Say, is this the forum where we practice our award acceptance speech?
“Ladies and gentlemen and whatever, thanks a lot for this leadership award. It’s not easy commentating on local blogs, but I don’t write because it’s easy; I write because, well, it’s not so easy to put into words…
I think it’s time for a little short story. Someone once asked me why I don’t keep up with local Tacoma news. I said first of all, I don’t have the kind of money that some people have to buy a newspaper everyday. And secondly, I always forget what I read, so what’s the point?
Well, upon hearing this, that someone then said to me, “See that wicker basket over there? Go over to the sink and fill it full of water.” I said, “That basket is full of holes.” Then again I was directed, “Take that basket over to the sink and fill it with water.” So I said, “What’s the point? All the water will just rush out the side.” Then the person said to me, “True, but the basket will be a lot cleaner.”
Well ladies and gentlemen and whatever, that’s why I read and commentate on local blogs—-It’s pointless, but I get a good brain rinse.
Thank you and God Bless.
7 | Posted by Mofo from the Hood | Jan 11, 05:21 PM
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