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Don Williams, Chloe Becks, Judd Van Gorder
Ruth Linoz, Stan Simonsen, Cameron Reiten,
Gary Manly, Candace Lamb-Solsbee and
Dan Solsbee pose for a portrait of the 2018
Cottage Grove Area Chamber of Commerce
Board. The group gathered for the 70th An-
nual Chamber Awards Banquet held on Sat-
urday, Jan. 19 at the Cottage Grove Armory.
Awards were given out to teacher of the
year, fi rst citizen of the year, nonprofi t of the
year and business of the year. City Manager
Richard Meyers took home the Presidents
Award for Community Excellence Award. The
new chamber board for 2019 was also sworn
in during the festivities.
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Banquet
students.
Sullivan read from Hilton’s
nomination letter: “On top of a
full-time teaching job, helping
students each day, somehow
she spends what little time she
has left in her evening translat-
ing ma-terials so our students
and parents have access to our
information.”
Moving to broader commu-
nity infl uencers, Russ McGuire
was the Distinguished Service
Award winner for his many
years of volunteerism and proj-
ect work in the community in-
cluding the eff ort to construct
the Cottage Grove carousel.
Nadine Kelly, who spear-
headed the Cottage Grove Air-
port Welcome Center project,
took home the Impact Award
in recognition of her eff orts.
Th e airport is credited with a
rise in tourism in the city.
“I’m fi guring (air) traffi c
is going to double this year,”
Kelly said.
Among local organiza-
tions, Community Sharing
was awarded Nonprofi t of
the Year for its commitment
to providing aid for families
and individuals in need.
Diane Hazen from Fam-
ily Relief Nursery said of
the nonprofi t, “[Commu-
nity Sharing] is considered
an outstanding model of
mission achievement and
community impact through
innovation, leadership, part-
nerships and community
empowerment.”
Business of the Year award
went to local manufacturing
company Kimwood Machin-
ery Inc.
On behalf of the compa-
ny, President of Friends of
the Cottage Grove Carousel
Committee Don Williams
accepted the award.
“Th ey’ve been a stable em-
ployer for 67 years,” Williams
said. He praised the company’s
“longevity in the business com-
munity and making it possible
for many, many employees to
have a paycheck and bread and
butter on the table.”
While the night was fi lled
with warm appreciations for
each of the awardees, standing
ovations were reserved for two
standout individuals.
First among them was Ana
Maria Dudley, who received
the First Citizen Award. Dud-
ley took the stage to rousing
applause for her dedication to
developing a secure network
for Cottage Grove’s Latino
community to seek education-
al opportunities and access to
health care.
“How lucky I am to live a
community where all of us
can make an eff ort to make
sure that all of our citizens, no
matter what their status, can
get help and that all of us are
here to support them?” Dud-
ley said. She directed her grat-
itude to the many community
members who helped her. “I
couldn’t do this without you,”
she said.
Also receiving a generous
round of the room’s enthu-
siasm was Richard Meyers,
whose more than two decades
of work as City Manager and
participation in a multitude of
community organiza-tions was
recognized with the President’s
Award for Community Excel-
lence.
Meyers accepted the award
while emphasizing his appre-
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