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Wednesday, February 14, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
AWARDS: Annual
event recognizes
achievements
broke down into personal
attacks in public and in the
media.” C4C fosters civility
and constructive communica-
tion in public discourse.
Holman has also helped
to create a Senior Alliance in
Sisters.
“Nothing gives me greater
joy than when I see people
wanting to do something
positive in the community,”
she told the assemblage.
A deeply moved Brett
Miller accepted the Non-
profit of the Year Award
on behalf of Warfighter
Outfitters. Miller, himself a
wounded veteran of the war
in Iraq, founded the organi-
zation to promote healing
for veterans through hunt-
ing and fishing expeditions
and “engagement missions,”
which recreate the camara-
derie of military life while
conducting demanding work
in national parks in the
West.
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from a trip to Mexico to
accept Volunteer of the
Year honors for her work in
building the organization
Citizens4Community.
“Robyn is a person of
enormous energy,” said
Jeanette Pilak in presenting
the award. She noted that
Holman is the kind of volun-
teer who recognizes a need,
pulls people and resources
together to meet it, and works
to keep the momentum going.
That’s what Holman did
with the founding of the
community-building organi-
zation. She recalled that C4C
grew out of a fraught climate
in Sisters a couple of years
ago, where issues had divided
people and “communication
Miller expressed his
appreciation to the Sisters
community.
“A nonprofit is nothing
without its support and dona-
tions, so you have made us
what we are,” he said.
The Customer Service
Award went to a business
that evolved out of a garage
to become a destination spa
at FivePine in Sisters.
O w n e r Z o e Wi l l i t t s
saluted the staff members
who attended the banquet,
who apply Shibui Spa’s ethic
of customer service every
day.
“I’d like them to stand
up,” she said. “I’m so proud
of them.” She singled out
Kendra Littrell as “a manager
like no other.”
She also thanked her hus-
band, Bill Willitts, for the
impetus to actually create a
spa at FivePine, “because I’d
still be in the garage.”
Cris Converse accepted
her Citizen of the Year Award
in honor of her mother,
Dorro Sokol, a pioneer of the
Sisters business community
who died last year. Converse
was honored in part for her
gift of $250,000 worth of
municipal water rights from
Pine Meadow Ranch.
The donation, as presenter
Lon Kellstrom noted, means
that “the viability and sus-
tainability of the community
has been strengthened for
decades to come.”
“I love this town — this
PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
Lon Kellstrom presented the Citizen of the Year award to Cris Converse.
town, this community is a
really special place, with
incredible people, differ-
ent opinions,” Converse
said. “It’s all good, because
y’know what? We’re all here;
we’re all committed to this
community… The next well
will be called ‘Dorro’s Big
Drink!’”
Bend/Sisters Garden RV
Resort won Business of the
Year.
Owner/developer Celia
Hung accepted the award,
noting that, like a family, dis-
agreements and frustrations
in Sisters all are subsumed
under one overarching real-
ity: “It is the love that we
have for this place that bound
us together.”
Hung credited her father
with opening her eyes to her
surroundings, an awareness
she brought to bear in cre-
ating the exceptional atmo-
sphere at Bend/Sisters
Garden RV Resort.
“I took what God has
given us, this whole com-
munity, His creation, and dis-
covered it and made it acces-
sible,” she said.
Hung says that she wants
her visitors to feel like they
have found a home away
from home, that they are
pulling their camper into
their own garden.
That kind of effort and
that level of commitment to
Sisters is commonly found
— and yet remains excep-
tional — and ensures that
the Sisters Area Chamber
of Commerce always has a
deep pool of potential honor-
ees for their service to their
community.
PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
Chamber director Judy Trego (left) with Volunteer of the Year Robyn
Holdman at the annual awards dinner on February 8.
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