We recently held our Annual Meeting and Volunteer Celebration to honor our dedicated volunteers and board members. The annual meeting is an essential part of The Shea Center’s business and governance and is a chance to recognize new leadership. Shea Center board chair Greg Talbott welcomed the event guests.
During the evening, we celebrated the outstanding achievements of our Shea Center volunteers throughout 2023. We’re thrilled to announce that, because of their dedication, 762 volunteers volunteered their time, talent, and treasure for an estimated total of 21,587 volunteer hours. Our volunteerism thrives, in part, because of the dedicated staff who taught 99 classes in 2023 for a total of 1053 hours.
Everyone enjoyed dinner from Aioli, Krispy Kreme donuts, and homemade cookies from one of our Triple Crown Award winners, Lynn Nikolenko. Lots of awards were given out, including the Golden Manure Award for our 5-time winner Don Iler. Our Horse of the Year, Superman, was present to accept his award as well as the runners-up. All in all, it was a wonderful celebration for all our guests and award recipients.
Mark E. Aldrich Board Leadership Award
Betsy King
Fran Joswick Leadership Award
Wallace Chan, Jack Godard, Steve Stambaugh, Kevin Walker, Greg Talbott
Fundraising Leadership Award
Bryan Coniglio
Peer-to-Peer Award
Jim Washburn
Corporate Philanthropy Award
Applied Medical
Fundraising Award
KNU for Kids Foundation
Horse of the Year
Show – Auggie and Dolly, Place – Easy, Win – Superman
Above and Beyond Award
Paul Elwart, Jacqueline Porter
All for One and One for All Award
Susan Cox, Kristi Giddings
Behind the Scenes Award
Eric Espinoza, Liam J., Maureen Supple
Golden Manure Award
Don Iler
Mentorship Award
Greig Ellis
Triple Crown Award
Rhonda Moore, Lynn Nikolenko, Cori Vernam
Saturday Backbones Award
Nolina Beauchamp, Nate Brown, Linda Owens, Judy Shumaker
Anniversaries
5 years – Josephine Brooks, Kimberly Llamas, Stephany McCollum, Greg Talbott, Reagan Wagner
10 years – Suzanne Franzen, Laura McFeaters, Cindy Roe, Sharon Shrewsbury
20 years – Susan Hardy
Hall of Fame Award – Greg Talbott
Youth Volunteer of the Year – Ella B.
Volunteer of the Year – Carly Green