Celebrate Southington! Award Co-Chairs Named
Two local community leaders have been named as co-chairs of the selection committee to choose the recipient of this year’s Community Foundation of Greater New Britain Celebrate Southington! award, part of the Foundation’s four-town Celebrate Our Communities! community service awards program in Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington.
The awards will honor one outstanding grassroots volunteer in each community, and a local charity of the honoree’s choice.
Co-chairs of the 2007 Selection Committee will be two long-time fixtures of Southington community service: the Rev. Victoria Triano, director of pastoral care at Southington Care Center, a member of the Southington Town Council and of the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain Board of Directors, and Joe LaPorte, current chairman of the Town’s Board of Park Commissioners. The full committee is in the process of being selected.
The Celebrate Southington! award recipient will earn the right to designate a $2,500 grant award from the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain to a Southington charity or community service organization of their choice. The Community Foundation has earmarked a total of $10,000 in grant awards for the program in its four communities.
On-line nomination forms are available by visiting The Southington Citizen website at www.thesouthingtoncitizen.com, or the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain’s website at www.cfgnb.org. Nomination deadline is February 28. For more information call (860) 229-6018. The winner will be announced this spring.
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