Morgantown Care and Rehab Volunteer Awards Ceremony

Fri, 04/26/2013 - 2:29pm — Jeremy Hack

A splendid year has been had by the Morgantown Care and Rehab Volunteer Program! A record 37 medalists from the Presidential Awards exceeded and goal that may have been set. Varying age groups required different numbers of hours for recognition. There were 4 gold medalists, 13 silver, and 20 bronze recipients. We are so proud of these and other folks who have contributed.

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Our gold medal recipients included Delaney Embry, Taylor Harris, Destiny Holland, and Tracy Ouellette. The total number of hours contributed by this group alone is 917.

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Silver medalists include Matthew Embry, Gaylen Givens, Earl Hartlerode, Iris Moore, Eddie Neighbors, Roger Southerland, Thomas F. White, Charles Wilson, Aberdeen Baptist Church Youth, Barnett's Lick Baptist Church, Butler County High School FCCLA, Morgantown Elementary School and Oak Ridge Baptist Church.

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Groups and individuals require different hours to qualify, but our silver medal individuals racked up 2,357 hours- a fantastic total! Our groups that competed on the silver medal level compiled 3,165 hours, a feat unequaled previously by MCRC.

There were 20 bronze medalists, individuals included James Robert Beliles, Kimberlea Embry, Virginia Fields, Barry Givens, Shirley Givens, Kay Hartlerode, David Hunt, Florence Jones, J. L. Jones, Frances Johnson, Lynn Keown, Charlie Mauzy, Helen Phelps, and Phyllis Ray. These hours represent 2012 devoted duties and these all add up to 2,081 hours of concentrated support.

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Groups that earned bronze medals included The Anointed Ones, Butler County High School HOSA, BelmontChristianAcademy, Cool Springs Baptist Church, Lennie's Girls, and North Butler Elementary. These folks made a great contribution and devoted 1,824 wonderful hours to our program.

We are honored to announce our Volunteer of the Year for 2012 with 360 hours is Gaylen Givens. Anyone who knows him and sees his dedicated endeavors is a fortunate person and we are so lucky to be a part of the service he donates. We salute Gaylen for his achievements!

There were a total of 85 people in attendance and food was served. Food that was left over was donated to the Butler County Jail.