Nominations Now Being Accepted for Orange 2010 Living Treasure Awards

ORANGE - Nominations are now being accepted by the Orange Community Services Department for this year’s Living Treasure Awards.
Nomination forms are available in the Orange Community Services office, at Town Hall, and can be printed from the town’s Web site at www.orange-ct.gov.
Three people will be selected by a review committee made up of town representatives. The three people chosen will be honored at the Orange Senior Center’s Pasta Festa! Supper on May 21, 2010.
Nominees must be current residents of Orange and at least 65 years of age. They must have demonstrated positive actions to improve the quality of life for individual residents or enhanced the Orange community as a whole. The nominee must have made these contributions as a volunteer.
"Often we do not honor people for the contributions they have made until it is too late," said Orange Senior Services Coordinator Joanne Byrne, founder of the Living Treasure Awards. "It is so much better to recognize people for their contributions when they can enjoy it. Awardees serve as an example and inspiration for others"
Each Living Treasure selected receives a plaque engraved with his or her name and all names will be added to the plaque hanging in High Plains Community Center that contains names of previous recipients.
Those honored in the past as Living Treasures include Mary Jewell, Margaret Howland, Walter Bespuda, Bob Archambault, Hannah Clark Russell, Mary DeVito, Bob Drobish, Harry Jones, Lucy Scillia, Dr. Edmund Tucker, Dr. George Whitney, Dorothy Berger, Albert "Skip" Clark, and Bob DeFeo.
Nominations must be received by March 31, 2010.





Editor's note: the information in this news item was provided by the Orange Senior Center