Celebrate Berlin! Award Selection Committee Named
Nine Berlin business and community leaders have been chosen to serve on the Selection Committee for the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain’s Celebrate Berlin! 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.
Named to serve on the committee along with co-chairs Mayor Adam Salina and Berlin Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Kate Fuechsel were: Mary Jean Agostini of Realty 3, Carroll & Agostini Valley Properties in Kensington; Rosemary Conway Beaupre, a Kensington resident and member of the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain’s Board of Directors and Grants Committee; Peter Campanelli, president of Cambridge Specialty Co., Inc., in Kensington; Susan Ford, Curriculum Director, Berlin Public Schools; Bob Mayer, Managing Editor, The Berlin Citizen; James L. McNair, a Berlin resident and financial consultant with Smith Barney; Roger Perno, owner of Roger’s Marketplace IGA, Kensington; Ida Ragazzi, a well-known Berlin community volunteer; and Len Zielinski, Chairman of the Town of Berlin’s Parks and Recreation Commission.
“This group represents an outstanding cross-section of business and community leaders in Berlin and is extremely qualified to choose the Celebrate Berlin! Award winner from among nominees submitted by residents of the community,” said Foundation President Jim Williamson.
The Celebrate Berlin! Award winner will earn the right to designate a $2,500 grant award from the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain to a Berlin 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.
The Berlin Citizen is a co-sponsor of the Celebrate Berlin! Award. Nomination forms are available by visiting the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain’s website at www.cfgnb.org, or The Berlin Citizen website at www.theberlincitizen.org. Nomination deadline is February 21. The winner will be announced in The Citizen in March and an award ceremony will take place at a community event to be announced.
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