Every year in Garfield County and Glenwood Springs, there are basically three very different in energy awards ceremonies and celebrations honoring those who give of themselves in humanitarian or community service ways.
Not too long ago, Melanie Sturm, up on the Aspen Times, very artfully put out a column on Rotary International and local Rotary. Without any collateral damage to these wonderful folks who give of themselves and actually participate in these types of organizations, Sturm jumped into the highly controversial problem in society today, of transparency and accountability in the world of non-profits.
She is to be commended, it was an excellent piece that nailed the point and did so in Sturm's very own version (we love it!) of 'yellow journalism'.
A respected columnist who refuses to be a wordsmith, instead just speaking in a skilled and forthright manner to her followers.
Here is a link to Garfield County's recent 2012 Humanitarian Awards celebration.
An annual event that has true common folks pride, every year, as it is the focus of the 'off the beaten path' lives of the common man, the little guys, the folks.
Put on by Garfield County officials, there is a feeling of security and trust that is inherent in the celebration. One that stands alone and finds it unnecessary to be gleaned away from the trustworthy and stellar moral character of the recipients themselves. Simplistically stated, the folks who receive the awards and those who attend with their support for the event, are not the ones frequently called upon to lend credibility to the events of other's organizations.
The Garfield County Humanitarian award is an honor held where cronyism, self-aggrandizing and power are simply not present.
The GarCo ceremony is a place where the folks feel secure, comfortable. They are there among inherent credibility and also drawn with the desire to sincerely honor another of worth. Rather than throw a social soiree.
With that said, GarCo Humanitarian Award ceremony is also usually buzz titled as the best party of the year. Go figure, who knew?
http://www.postindependent.com/article/20120417/VALLEYNEWS/120419911/1083&parentprofile=1074
With all of the above said, congratulations to the recipients of all local and regional service awards. You are amazing people, trusted and so appreciated by all.
Heather McGregor:
"The Athena award presentation came at the pinnacle of the Premier Awards Gala hosted Tuesday evening at the Aspen Glen Club by the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association.
“I love awards. I like to get them, I like to give them, and it makes everybody feel good,” said Marianne Virgili, president and CEO of the chamber.
A new award, the David Delaplane Award for Community Partnership, was given to Stan Jensen, president of Colorado Mountain College. Delaplane, 85, now of Denver, presented the award after being introduced to the audience by Virgili.
“David was a young minister and the chamber director in 1963,” Virgili said. “He was cleaning out his files and found one labeled Education Committee.”
With the thought in mind that “there really ought to be a college here,” he called the committee together. From those meetings at the chamber, plans emerged for Colorado Mountain College.
Nearly 40 years later, CMC is a strong community institution from Glenwood Springs to Breckenridge and Steamboat Springs to Buena Vista. Virgili created the new award to honor Delaplane for his original vision, and to recognize the college's current president for his work in building partnerships all over the college district with businesses, local governments, churches and community organizations.
She cited CMC's partnership in downtown Glenwood Springs with the city government, the Garfield Public Library District and the Downtown Development Authority to build the new library and parking garage at Eighth and Cooper.
“We needed somebody with vision and to have trust in the room. That's what we have with Stan,” Virgili said."..." (Read more? Click title)
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10 comments:
Sorry, haven't heard much on the elections focus from this front. Seems to be focused on cultivating the new help at the chamber and a couple of board members at strategic points to suit her various 'causes'. Oh, and one fairly high profile divorce that must have some reward down the road from the way it looks from here on the sidelines. John Martin has no one running against him which is probably fortunate. Funny how all that old slander online gets dredged back up again with creative SEO on the old I-phone clicking away. Sorry, can't help much here at World Headquarters.
Nobody deserves recognition in the community more than Stan, he's such a great guy. Look for others that are of his same caliber to start doing that is the buzz to negate the overtures of this one.
'nails'.
Clean it up.
As you say.
"Hey, anybody out there know which way VirgZilla is swinging this election season? Right or left? Can't see much damage on national or state levels that she can do, has lost a lot of clout over the past few years. That end of a dying era thing, probably. So I'm thinking local is the focus. Thanks for getting back to me on the booted comment, inkie. Boards, new employee schmooze and meddlesome fingers in a divorce, eh? Good to know she's back up and running. Don't see how she can harm John Martin again. She's been there, done that back in the day when she first learned that rip off reports and the internet negative works for her. Beeson can probably expect a few homemade goodies and batted eyelashes. Samson might have concerns, she probably isn't doing so good with Tresi gone. Needs a liberal to keep all the fingers in the pies.
Glad to see Stan being recognized. He's a very good man. Sorry to see him being used for personal gain by someone who hasn't had her own validity in trust in the room for many years now.
There couldn't be anyone more deserving than Stan of public accolades. Wonderful man. Congratulations! And thank you again to all of our CMC trustees for upholding truly high standards of leadership. You're appreciated!
As for Marianne making sure the press knows she whipped this new annual award up, how much she likes being praised and in that glow, 95% or better of the awards and accolades Marianne Virgili has are ones she applied for rather than others recommending her. Or submitted herself for or created for herself online. I used to wonder what she would say or do if ever put on the spot and asked to give verifiable information for each one so that authenticity could be checked.
Every employee who's ever worked for her knows that and far more in the community know it than she is aware of. Whether employees will admit it or not depends on if she has them currently dependent on her for their paycheck or in some other way.
It's always good these awards that go to the truly deserving happen. The Athena and Top Brass Awards withstand true honor only because of the recipients. Shame the chamber board doesn't appear to care about the representation.
It's always a shame to see the overshadowing of this event.
Congratulations to all recipients. Richly deserved and very much so. The organizational ethics behind the event is the problem commenters have. But that is simple to see when you think for yourself. Thanks going out to all of you for helping to make our area a wonderful place to live.
Good lord, Marianne Virgili has been priming the pump for over 25 years. There's another one in the PI this morning. Tom Jankovsky. What was Marianne doing in 2008 and 2009 that's easy enough to spot in public records? That she had to cultivate a Hail Mary to save her bacon and keep the old tourism board under her spider web controls? What better target than preying on Jankovsky, the guy with the most power in tourism and who started the first tourism board. Always it's the ones in the spotlight that she thinks will further her personal aims. So glad to see that Jankovsky finally made it into the news today for Ski Hall of Fame. Too bad that Hail Mary failed and backfired on virgzilla and didn't save her from either problem. Loss of all control over many millions of public fund dollars and the complete disgrace and horribly irretrievable consequences from her actions in her private/employee life. The classic Virgili cultivation of a power figure for her own gain is not a new tale in 81601. It's a shameful, disgraceful and sad tale. One that unfortunately touches every life in town at some point in time.
McGregor on this one and Stroud on Jankovskys in Sat. PI. Colson on flaming Spring Valley in the same way he did Strawberry Days arrests first article 2011. They do the valley no good when they stay either completely clueless or deliberately misleading in their output.
It all still comes down, from Aspen to Utah to the front range, that when the people can't trust the mass communication somewhere they suffer as a whole.
Anybody who has a brain knows exactly where Virgili is going to manipulate her chamber and her town. She never even changes her style she just gets worse in how far she goes. Same thing goes with a lot of other people in the area who abuse power in other ways. Few, if any, are as covert malicious for personal gain or salvation. That's not really the problem, Marianne and her roll-a-dex of who's her shill or in her pocket or control by their own vulnerability is de jour.
The problem is the coverup of all the consequences of every person in kind. That blame lies square on our leaders and our press. It's more troubling to think about their callous disregard for even putting forth the effort to find out that is worth putting energy of outrage into.
We are not the same kind as those. Stan Jensen, Dorothy and others in honor prove that.
Ode to the day when the majority rather than the small minority, can have respect and trust in our civic and elected leaders. To the day when there are no far beneath the caliber of what position of trust means individuals taking advantage of those beneath them. Ode to the day when the brave enough, fed up enough no longer have to get down to the subterranean depths of ooze in order to effectively communicate enough of a shock into a community that they can be heard.
Ode to that day.
Stan, you are one of the best guys around and you do an incredible job in all you do. Thank you.
If there was ever a city manager or elected council or commissioner that had the guts to stand up long enough to go the distance with the chamber board and Marianne, stripping off all this fake imagery she's cloaked a town in for over 20 years would slip away so easy it's mind-blowing. She's so phony she goes out and layers everything that could be or would normally be credible with fake, gushing personality most can't stand listening to it. I wonder what kind of award the people could concoct that would puff up the chest enough of one of those obligated leaders of ours to look after public money and overall credibility to our town and county? There's the ticket. Become Marianne and fake it up first, layer it with enough generational sediment to hide everything and then ice the Italian wedding cake with a trophy and a gala. Maybe then somebody could be swollen with enough patriotic duty that they finally would strip it all down and answer the questions with hard fact and hard news. The other one in this that is a real eye popper is Vicky Nash being honored. Riding the backs of all those hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in the people's advertising and tourism promotion dollars does not a shooting star make. Got the talent? Then cut the kite tail and prove it without the dough making it easy. Is anybody else as thoroughly ashamed of what Glenwood Springs has become all for the greed of a few? I don't need to congratulate Stan and the others who really are deserving of recognition. The fact that they don't need it speaks volumes.
Nash lost all credibility with the Snowmass Village tourism failures and questions. Notice there aren't any more awards coming at her as high as this by anybody but a crony. She sure won't be getting any from up valley.
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