2020/10
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Elliot Levine, a member of the Park Hills Civic Association and the East Silver Spring Citizens Association,
is recognized for his innovative support of important community-based food security organizations in
Montgomery County and the State of Maryland
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2019/01
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Corinne Hart, President of Woodside Park Civic Association in Silver Spring and Co-Chair of the Dale Drive Safety Coalition, an advocacy group formed by residents working to ensure the safety of all pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists using Dale Drive
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2017/12
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Jennifer Alvaro, a licensed clinical social worker and certified sex offender treatment provider, has been on the front lines of the battle to protect children from sex abuse in Montgomery County’s Public Schools system since 2012
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2017/11
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Chris Richardson, President of the Park Hills Civic Association in east Silver Spring, has assumed
leadership roles on a variety of issues that have helped define Silver Spring’s rapidly growing
and increasingly diverse community, including school, transportation, library, environmental, and general
community development issues, working tirelessly to bring neighbors together and working with elected officials
and county government representatives for solutions to longstanding problems
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2017/03
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Valarie Barr, President of the Rosemary Hills Neighbors Association, and
Charlotte Coffield, President of the Lyttonsville Community Civic Association, have taken leading roles
in guiding their west Silver Spring neighborhoods through a long process of planning and land use in their
neighborhoods and, specifically, the deliberations surrounding the Greater Lyttonsville Sector Plan
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2017/01
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Anita Neal Powell, an effective advocate for communities of color through community-building and civic engagement,
has worked tirelessly to strengthen the Montgomery County community through her advocacy and volunteer activities
involving church, schools, government, and nonprofit organizations
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2016/12
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Bernadine “Bernie” Karns, President of Calverton Civic Association, which maintains public grounds
in Calverton, promotes public safety, and advocates on transportation, traffic, roads, street lighting, schools,
residential and commercial development, and environmental concerns in both Montgomery and Prince George’s
Counties
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2016/11
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Sisters Lene and Abeda Tsegay, co-owners of the Kefa Cafe in Silver Spring, an important
community gathering place which hosts civic meetings and local events and regularly
features the work of local artists, as well as supporting a local homeless shelter and
many newly established businesses in the area
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2016/09
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Malcolm “Mike” Winffel and Carl Unger, who intervened to prevent a carjacking
at Westfield Montgomery Mall [both were shot; Mr. Winffel was killed]
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2016/04
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Terrill North, a founder of the community-serving organization MANUP,
which works with teenage males at-risk of joining gangs
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2016/03
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Peter Murtha, a cofounder of 350MoCo, who led the ongoing effort to divest the
County’s pension funds from fossil fuel companies that drive climate change
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2016/01
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Tom Hearn, who has advocated for many years to increase our knowledge
and awareness of concussions and their effects on our student athletes —
particularly in football — and to push for safeguards in school sports
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2015/11
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Ricardo Loaiza, founder and Executive Director of the After School Dance Program and
the After School Dance Fund, Inc., two programs that have helped hundreds of Montgomery
County students realize their extraordinary potential as both students and Latin dancers
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2015/09
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Max Bronstein, for his long-term involvement in community issues
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2015/05
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Ron Ely, for his work in exposing deficiencies in speed camera
programs throughout the state of Maryland
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2015/03
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Jim Turner of Bethesda and his collaborators for their quick action on establishing and
obtaining, in less than a week, over 1,000 signatures on a petition opposing MC 24-15,
state legislation to create an Independent Transit Authority and fund transit through
property tax increases beyond the Charter limit
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2015/02
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Jasmine Andoh-Thompson, a John T. Baker Middle School student who spoke out when she was
touched inappropriately by a Montgomery County Public Schools contractor
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2014/10
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Committee to Save Kensington, which works diligently on public interest land use and government accountability
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2014/09
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Gordon Brenne, Vice President of the Montgomery County Taxpayers League
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2014/05
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Erwin Mack, pedestrian and bicyclist safety advocate
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2014/03
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Clair Garman, Kathleen Samiy, and Anne Vorce, environmental activists with Friends of Sligo Creek
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2014/02
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Abbe Milstein and Eric Hensal, public utility (electric power) activists
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2013/11
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Lyda Astrove, education activist
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2013/09
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Intergenerational Bridges, mentoring program for ESOL students
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2013/04
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Safe Healthy Playing Fields Coalition
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2013/03
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South Four Corners Civic Association and Harriett Quinn, for efforts in opposing application for excessively intensive Special Exception in SFCCA neighborhood
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2013/02
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Jean Cavanaugh, Marilyn Piety, Naomi Spinrad & William Mentzer, for work on legislation amending county Accessory Apartment standards and approval process
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2013/01
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David Reile & Barbara Suddarth, Olney master plan and environment defenders
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2012/12
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Sophia Maravell, local and organic food and agriculture educator/activist
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2012/05
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Brickyard Coalition, and Sara Shor of "Save Nick's Organic Farm"
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2012/04
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David Lucia, Head Coach of Montgomery Cheetahs, one of only three special needs youth ice hockey clubs in Maryland
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2012/03
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Little Falls Watershed Alliance, water quality activitists
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2012/02
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Judith Higgins and Eleanor Duckett, land use planning and zoning activists
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2012/01
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Janis Zink Sartucci, education activist
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2011/11
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Neighborhood Montgomery, countywide zoning and land use education and activism group
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2011/10
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Marvin Weinman, budget and fiscal issues activist
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2011/09
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Washington Revels
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2011/06
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Save Our Parks/Preserve Our Community Coalition, Rosemary Hills-Lyttonsville neighborhood group
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2011/05
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George Lane, public safety advocate
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2011/04
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Gordon Clark, community gardens activist
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2011/03
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Mike Heyser, for volunteer education & training activities on farming and local food production
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2010/11
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Members of the Young Activist Club at Piney Branch Elementary School, and Sponsors Nadine Bloch and Brenda Platt
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2010/05
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Donna Baron, community activist
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2010/04
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Karen Roper, community activist
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2009/04
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Plyers Mill Crossing HOA, Plyers Mill Estates, and McKenny Hills Carroll Knolls Civic Association
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2009/01
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Sandy Spring-Ashton Rural Preservation Consortium
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2008/09
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Dick Kauffunger, community activist
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2008/06
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Faye Nabavian, Pat Price, and Al Geske, community activists
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2008/01
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Diane Cameron, environmental activist
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2007/12
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Harriet Lurensky Kuhn and Sue Ghosh Stricklett, community activists
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2007/05
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Eileen Finnegan, community activist
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2007/04
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Bernie Fisken, community activist
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2006/12
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Bette Petrides, environmental and community activist
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2006/10
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Steve Kanstoroom, community activist
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2005/10
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Clarksburg Town Center Advisory Committee
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2005/09
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Carol Green and Barbara Siegel, community activists
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2005/04
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Save Seven Locks School Coalition
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2004/10
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Laura Van Tosh, mental health advocate
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2004/09
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Bill Henry, Kay Cummins and VASAP Volunteers
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2004/05
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Ira Shesser, community activist
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2004/04
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Nancy Wendt, community activist
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2004/03
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Andrew White, volunteer fireman
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2004/02
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Dan Tuten, community activist
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2004/01
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Law Firm of Knopf & Brown
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2003/11
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Leah Haywood, Edward Murtagh, and Kathleen Michels for their work in the renovation of
Northwood High School
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2003/10
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Evelyn Burton for her many years of advocacy for persons with mental illness
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2003/05
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Rosey Poole, civic activist
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2003/03
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Jim Humphrey (founder of the Rally for Montgomery) and Sarah Gilligan (Maplewood Citizens Association) for
their exemplary civic work
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2003/02
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Dr. Thomas Jeremiah Baltimore, Sr., founder and senior minister of the People’s Community Baptist Church, for his service to people and communities
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2003/01
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Lois Sherman, founding member of the Montgomery Inter-County Connector Coalition (MICC)
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2002/10
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Marvin Weinman, for volunteering to help the county in many ways and over many years
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2002/09
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James M. Fary, environmental activist
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2002/05
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Randy Bosin, a dedicated and tireless volunteer advocate for Montgomery County’s seriously mentally ill
citizens
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2002/04
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David Brown, for this efforts to stop the Conference Center
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2001/12
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Montgomery County Fire Administrator Gordon Aoyogi, Chief Roger Strock, and Chief David Dwyer, in recognition of the day-to-day services of the men and women, both career and volunteer, of Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services
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2001/04
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W. Gregory Wims, founder of the Victims Rights Foundation, Inc., community activist
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2001/03
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Samira Hussein, for her efforts to advance interfaith and interethnic understanding in Montgomery County
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2001/02
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Volunteer Victim Assistants (working in the Abused Persons Program under the direction of the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services) for their dedication, generosity, and most effective work
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2000/12
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Frank Vrataric, community activist
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2000/11
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Barney Evans, an advocate for transportation, schools, seniors, and the environment
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2000/10
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Tony Caffrey, for suimg the County over its failure to make public the scoring guidelines by which a multimillion management contract was to be awarded
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2000/09
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Whistleblowers at Potomac Elementary School who brought the MSPAP cheating scandal to light
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1999/11
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Marcie Stickle, for her tireless work for historic preservation across Montgomery County
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