Spirit of Rotary Award goes to....

Congratulations to Joanne Trefethen as this club’s first ever First Quarter 2008 Spirit of Rotary Award! The first selection team included Tasmine Bennett, Tammy Colledge, Barbara Cotting and Jerry Million. Tammy read and presented the following:
Our Rotary Spirit Award is being presented to honor a fellow Rotarian in our club who not only exemplifies the 4-way test, but one who truly puts service above self.

While each of these might describe any of our members, the member that we are honoring this quarter is very special, and near and dear to my heart.

This member joined our Rotary club on May 1, 1996. Since that time, thismember has served on numerous committees, and taken on many, many projects to include the flower garden, highway clean-up, and our Christmas families. Some larger projects include our annual Halibut Feed, the
NP Health fair, our community skateboard park, as well as serving as President of our club for two consecutive years.

Outside of Rotary is no different. This member has served on the community planning board for the Fairbanks North Star Borough, and is currently deeply involved serving with the Fairbanks Resource Agency. This member also gives generously to other community fundraisers, such
as the annual Go Red event for women, a function of the American Heart Association. In addition to being self-employed with a construction business, this member took on an additional business and hit the ground running with dog mushing supplies. In any spare time left over, this member
also designs quilt patterns with a sibling, and enjoys a glass of good red wine. Congratulations Joanne!

Be thinking about who YOU think is deserving of this award for the current
quarter. We will present the next award in January. If you are interested in
serving on the selection committee, let Jeri know!