Richard R. Miles Award

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5^th Annual Recognition Dinner

The Fifth Annual One Columbus Recognition Dinner is scheduled for Thursday, January 22, 2009, where a person or organization will receive the prestigious Community Excellence Award for their work in the field of diversity and race relations. The Dinner will be held at the Trade Center at 7:00 pm and will conclude a week of events that start with Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

The winner would have demonstrated significant efforts toward assisting, encouraging and promoting diversity and affecting change in the quality of life for the Columbus community as well as contributed to improving racial harmony.

Former Community Excellence Award winners include Dan Amos, Carmen Cavezza, Rev. J. H. Flakes, Jr. and the South Columbus Revitalization Task Force.

Criteria for nominations and the nomination forms can be found on the One Columbus website  www.onecolumbus.org, and on www.wtvm.com.  

“There are dozens of people and many organizations in our community that are making a significant difference with respect to improved race relations,” Awards Committee chair Teresa Tomlinson said, “and we want to learn about their important work and show them how deeply the community appreciates their efforts.” 

‘The One Columbus Recognition Dinner is an educational event that has developed a reputation for bringing together the most diverse audience of any major activity of this sort in the Valley,” Tomlinson said, “it is a true community celebration.”

Nomination forms should be completed and sent to One Columbus by the end of October.

The dinner will also include the presentation of the Richard R. Miles Award, which goes to a high school student who has demonstrated outstanding service or activity in the field of race relations.

Contacts:
Teresa Tomlinson 706-494-1633
Henry Holt 706-576-3000
Ken Crooks 706-315-0162

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