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Envi Awards

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2008 PRIDE Envi Awards
The 2008 PRIDE Envi Awards ceremony will be held in August. Watch this site for details to be announced.

PRIDE now is accepting nominations for the 2008 Tony Turner Volunteer of the Year Award and Rogers-Bickford Environmental Leadership Award. Nominations are due June 20. To read the criteria for each award, please scroll down to their sections on this web page. To print nomination forms, click on the name of the award:

Nominations for the PRIDE Campus of the Year Awards were accepted through April 21. Congratulations to our finalists:
  • Elementary Schools: Walker (Wayne County), St. Camillus Academy (Knox County), Manchester (Clay County)
  • Middle Schools: Corbin Independent (Whitley County), Lee County, Russell County
  • High Schools: Letcher County Central, Somerset Independent (Pulaski County), Leslie County

About the PRIDE Envi Awards
PRIDE began the Envi Awards in 2001 to honor the individuals and organizations who excelled at pursuing the PRIDE mission — Personal Responsibility In A Desirable Environment. Envi Award winners emulate the spirit of PRIDE in cleaning up our environment and working together to find solutions to our environmental problems.

The name, Envi, refers to the environment. Envi also alludes to the desire of people outside Southern and Eastern Kentucky to replicate the region’s clean environment, which is being created through PRIDE.

During the annual Envi Awards Ceremony, PRIDE honors the award winners and thanks all the volunteers, civic groups, businesses, teachers and students who committed their time and energy to the PRIDE mission. The Envi Awards Ceremony celebrates PRIDE’s accomplishments and encourages the region’s citizens to continue working with PRIDE until they restore the region’s natural beauty.


Campus of the Year Award
This award is given to an elementary, middle and high school campus that incorporates hands-on environmental learning at their respective schools. This award seeks to recognize school projects that show creativity, leadership and community involvement, and that are tied to the Kentucky Department of Education’s core content. Schools nominate themselves for this award.

The winning schools receive field trips to natural attractions.


Year

Elementary School

Middle School

High School

2001

Johns Creek
(Pike County)

A.J. Lloyd
(Wayne County)

Williamsburg Independent
(Whitley County)

2002

Cumberland
(Harlan County)

North Laurel

Corbin
(Whitley County)

2003

Artemus
(Knox County)

Russell County

Bell County

2004

Robert W. Combs
(Perry County)

Meece (Pulaski County)

Adair County

2005

Boston
(Whitley County)

North Laurel

Southwestern
(Pulaski County)

2006 Prestonsburg
(Floyd County)
North Laurel Letcher County Central
2007 Southside
(Lee County)
Corbin
(Whitley County)
Somerset
(Pulaski County)

College/Community Program of the Year Award
This award recognizes the outstanding college or community-based education programs that were developed using PRIDE Environmental Education Grants. Grant recipients nominate themselves for the award.

2004 – Lindsey Wilson College (Adair County)
2005 – Lake Cumberland Community Action Agency Head Start Program
2006 – McCreary County Extension Service
2007 – Somerset Community College


Tony Turner Volunteer of the Year Award
Named in honor of the late champion of the PRIDE initiative, this award recognizes a volunteer or group of volunteers for going beyond expectations. The recipient will have given time to help promote PRIDE in the local community and sought to make the environment better through his or her efforts. Nominations are solicited from community leaders, PRIDE Coordinators and the general public.

2001 – Carolyn Ingram (Menifee County)
2002 – Rosa Couch & Joe Smith (Perry County)
2003 – Angela Muncy (Leslie County)
2004 – Dixie Bend Retreat Lot Owners Association (Pulaski
County)
2005 - Higgins Blair (Perry County)
2006 – Kiwanis Club of Paintsville
2007 – Ken Kinder (Pike County)


Rogers-Bickford Environmental Leadership Award
Named in honor of the two founders of the PRIDE initiative, this award is given to an individual, civic group or business that has initiated environmental leadership in a PRIDE program and has demonstrated environmental stewardship for others to emulate. Nominations for this award are solicited from community leaders, PRIDE Coordinators and the general public.

2001 – East Kentucky Power Cooperative (Clark County)
2002 – TECO Coal (Whitley County)
2003 – Perry County Judge-Executive Denny Ray Noble
2004 – Jim Ed McDaniel (Laurel County)
2005 – Whitehouse Homemakers Club (Johnson County)
2006 – A.L. Sinclair (Adair County)
2007 – Jeffrey Thomas (Casey County) and Rodney Potter (Pike County), both posthumously


Kentucky PRIDE Award
This award is given to an individual who recognizes that all Kentuckians must work together to improve our environment and works toward promoting PRIDE’s mission of Personal Responsibility In a Desirable Environment. This award is selected by the PRIDE Board of Directors.

2001 – Kevin Richardson, Founder, Just Within Reach Foundation
2002 – Bill Deaton, Founder, Image Entry
2003 – Brigadier General James E. Bickford, PRIDE Co-Founder
(posthumously) & Tony Turner, PRIDE Board Member
(posthumously)
2004 – WYMT-TV of Hazard
2005 – Tom Biebighauser, Wildlife Biologist, Daniel Boone National Forest
2006 – Penny and Robert Brown, Patrons of Riverwoods
2007 – Henry Hinkle, Hinkle Contracting Corporation

 

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