YEC Honors 75 High Voltage Heroes

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YEC High Voltage HeroesYork Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive, Inc. is observ­ing its 75th birth­day this year and as part of its cel­e­bra­tion hon­ored 75 peo­ple who have big hearts and embody the spir­it of the coop­er­a­tive pro­gram – peo­ple who have been High Volt­age Heroes to indi­vid­u­als and our com­mu­ni­ty. On Feb­ru­ary 25, YEC announced and hon­ored the recip­i­ents of this com­mu­ni­ty ini­tia­tive and award­ed each of them a cash prize.

“One of YEC’s core val­ues is com­mit­ment to com­mu­ni­ty and our High Volt­age Heroes ini­tia­tive is an appro­pri­ate way to say thank you for the self­less giv­ing of these spe­cial com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers,” says Paul Basha, YEC’s Pres­i­dent and CEO. “York Elec­tric has been an impor­tant part of our local com­mu­ni­ty for 75 years and we are very excit­ed to include these recog­ni­tions as part of our 75th-anniver­sary cel­e­bra­tion.”

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Nominees

1.    Tam­mie Ander­son, nom­i­nat­ed by Joyce Bak­er

  • Served on YEC’s Oper­a­tion Round Up Trust Board from May 2007 until August 2013
  • Active mem­ber of Clover Pres­by­ter­ian Church where she serves as a dea­con and an elder
  • Orga­nized sev­er­al mis­sion trips to Mex­i­co
  • Vol­un­teer for Love A Child
  • Founder of Crooked Creek Farm, a 501c3 local char­i­ty that pro­vides horse­back rid­ing lessons for chil­dren who can­not afford it.

2.    Alber­ta Antho­ny, nom­i­nat­ed by Cameron Moore

  • Retired school teacher after work­ing for York School Dis­trict #1 for 40 years
  • Known as a moth­er, leader, and role-mod­el to all of her past stu­dents, as well as her two sons
  • Active mem­ber in Bethes­da Pres­by­ter­ian Church

3.    Shirley Bai­ley, nom­i­nat­ed by Mack Bai­ley

  • Past chair and cur­rent board mem­ber for the York Coun­ty Free Clin­ic where she ini­ti­at­ed a move to a larg­er facil­i­ty
  • Past Pres­i­dent of the Rock Hill Kiwa­nis Club
  • Active church mem­ber where she serves a dea­con and on the ser­vice­men and Vet­er­ans com­mit­tee, hon­or­ing those who serve our coun­try
  • Facil­i­tates a month­ly Bible Study at Brook­dale Chan­dler Place retire­ment home

4.    Dr. Sta­cy Black­mon, nom­i­nat­ed by Tee­ny Hall

  • Orga­nized and formed a free den­tal clin­ic in asso­ci­a­tion with the Clover Area Assis­tance Cen­ter, serv­ing those who could not afford den­tal care for the past 11 years
  • Vol­un­teers to pro­vide hos­pice patients den­tal care in their homes
  • Pro­vides den­tal care to young girls who are involved in the ***___ trade prob­lem in Char­lotte, NC

5.    Bet­ty Bolin, nom­i­nat­ed by Nell J. Moses

  • Known as the “glue” that holds her com­mu­ni­ty togeth­er, always giv­ing back to oth­ers
  • Retired pri­ma­ry school teacher
  • Active mem­ber of the St. Paul Unit­ed Methodist Church where she serves on the coun­cil of Health and Wel­fare
  • Always starts a prayer chain for those who are ill

6.    Dana Boutwell, nom­i­nat­ed by Lisa McCar­ley

  • Vol­un­teer at her children’s school
  • Founder and coor­di­na­tor for 30 Days for a cure to ben­e­fit Cook­ies for Kids’ Can­cer, where sales from numer­ous bake sales in our area are cou­pled with busi­ness dona­tions, then matched by OXO raise over $70,000 to ben­e­fit child­hood can­cer

7.    Stephen Burkell, nom­i­nat­ed by Meli­na Evans

  • After becom­ing an Eagle Scout, he earned his way into Order of the Arrow
  • Served our coun­try as a Staff Sar­gent in the Marine Corps for 12 years
  • Vol­un­teer fire­fight­er at Bethel VFD
  • Serves as a Watch Dog at a local ele­men­tary school

8.    Michelle Cherikos, nom­i­nat­ed by Alex Cherikos

  • Own­er and oper­a­tor of Angel Eye por­traits — using pho­tog­ra­phy to inform, edu­cate, and make a dif­fer­ence in the lives of orphans
  • Orga­nized events to bring aware­ness regard­ing orphan care to our area and inter­na­tion­al­ly, includ­ing 4 trips to Haiti

9.    Jes­si­ca Cody, nom­i­nat­ed by Sheila Comin­sky

  • Active mem­ber of Moped to Mem­phis group, rais­ing thou­sands of dol­lars each year for St. Jude Hos­pi­tal
  • Host­ed sev­er­al fundrais­ing events includ­ing proms, wom­an­less pageants, and walk-a-thons
  • Grant coor­di­na­tor for Eat Smart Move More York Coun­ty
  • Pres­i­dent for Bethany Ele­men­tary PTO

10. Scott Cra­ton, nom­i­nat­ed by Sal­ly Cra­ton

  • Received “Thumbs Up” awards for find­ing an elder­ly woman in her yard who had fall­en and need­ed assis­tance and for deliv­er­ing a baby on Hwy 521
  • Active mem­ber of his com­mu­ni­ty

11. Bob Dav­en­port, nom­i­nat­ed by Michael Roach

  • Active mem­ber of the Bethes­da Vol­un­teer Fire Depart­ment
  • Helps coor­di­nate many com­mu­ni­ty and fire depart­ment fundrais­ers

12. Kyle Dow­dall, nom­i­nat­ed by Gary Louns­bury

  • Full­time fire­fight­er with the Tega Cay Fire Depart­ment
  • Vol­un­teer fire­fight­er for the Riverview Fire Depart­ment and Wes­ley Chapel Fire Depart­ment
  • Coor­di­nat­ed events to teach area youth about fire safe­ty
  • For­mer coach for Fort Mill lacrosse youth

13. Rev. James Erle, nom­i­nat­ed by Bren­da Fair

  • Pas­tor at Cor­ner­stone Fam­i­ly Wor­ship Cen­ter
  • Instru­men­tal in grow­ing the church’s food pantry from help­ing 25 fam­i­lies per week to more than 145 fam­i­lies per week
  • Helped secure the church’s food pantry to be the Ben­e­fit Bank pre­mier site in South Car­oli­na

14. Rebec­ca Chris­ten­bury, nom­i­nat­ed by Troy Chris­ten­bury

  • Pur­chas­es and donates goods to the needy
  • Coor­di­nates and hosts many fundrais­ing events to aid in the cost of hos­pi­tal bills and funer­al expens­es for those in need in our com­mu­ni­ty

15. Cindy Down­ing, nom­i­nat­ed by Bar­bara Stephen­son

  • Com­mit­tee Chair­man for Com­po­ri­um Pio­neer Club, Sal­va­tion Army board mem­ber, ITPA board mem­ber
  • Past Guardian Ad Litem
  • Vol­un­teer for Come See Me events and par­tic­i­pant in sev­er­al fundrais­ing events in our area includ­ing Light the Night and Take Steps for Crohn’s and Col­i­tis

16. Gary Far­ris, nom­i­nat­ed by Paula Grein­er

  • Past board mem­ber for Keep York Coun­ty Beau­ti­ful
  • Active mem­ber of Abid­ing Pres­ence Luther­an Church
  • Vol­un­teers most of his spare time pick­ing up lit­ter in York Coun­ty and has encour­aged oth­ers to join his mis­sion to pro­tect our world by orga­niz­ing and edu­cat­ing oth­ers about recy­cling and trash pick­up events

17. Richard Fox, Jr., nom­i­nat­ed by Lau­ren McSwain

  • Active mem­ber and dea­con of West End Bap­tist Church
  • Vol­un­teers his time to help oth­ers in his com­mu­ni­ty and his church fam­i­ly, includ­ing main­tain­ing the church grounds
  • Avid hunter, shar­ing his meat with needy fam­i­lies

18. Con­nie F. Free­man, nom­i­nat­ed by Ethel Sut­ton

  • Influ­en­tial com­mu­ni­ty mem­ber by tru­ly car­ing for peo­ple who come into her store
  • Takes her time to check on oth­ers and vis­it with them when they do not have fam­i­ly

19. Anne Gil­fil­lan, nom­i­nat­ed by Brown Simp­son, Jr.

  • Active mem­ber of Mount Ver­non Unit­ed Methodist Church includ­ing fundrais­ing events and the Unit­ed Methodist Women
  • Influ­en­tial vol­un­teer for the Hick­o­ry Grove Fire Depart­ment includ­ing coor­di­nat­ing their Trac­tor Show and Cow Pat­ty Drop fundrais­ing events
  • Cur­rent Oper­a­tion Round Up board mem­ber

20. Eliz­a­beth Diana Ham­mond, nom­i­nat­ed by Tim­o­thy Childers who suf­fered a brain injury 7 years ago

  • Moth­er of 6 who cares for her son, Tim­o­thy
  • Trav­els to var­i­ous mil­i­tary bases to sup­port the troops, feed­ing them and thank­ing them for their ser­vice in a dec­o­ra­tive school bus

21. Eliz­a­beth Har­ris, nom­i­nat­ed by Antho­ny Nichols

  • Active enrolled mem­ber of the Cataw­ba Indi­an Nation
  • She has served on the trib­al gov­ern­ment since 2009, help­ing to estab­lish a new Con­sti­tu­tion, strate­gic plan for the future, a tran­sit ser­vice, a well­ness pro­gram, along with many oth­er com­mu­ni­ty events
  • Serves at the Com­mu­ni­ty Plan­ner for the tribe and on the tribe’s Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Board

22. Shirley Har­ris, nom­i­nat­ed by Lor­raine Stew­art

  • Retired school teacher after work­ing for 31 years
  • Cur­rent Adult Edu­ca­tion teacher for 8 years
  • York School Board mem­ber for 16 years where she was chair­man for 2 years
  • York Rotary Club mem­ber
  • Active mem­ber of the Wood­lawn Pres­by­ter­ian Church where she is a Cir­cle Leader, Sun­day school teacher, Pres­i­dent of the Women of the Church, served as an elder for the church, and is cur­rent­ly the mod­er­a­tor of the Pres­by­ter­ian Women of Prov­i­dence Pres­bytery

23. Pat­ti Imler, nom­i­nat­ed by Jill­Marie Eaton

  • Plays San­ta for fam­i­lies in need dur­ing Christ­mas, pur­chas­ing gifts for chil­dren
  • Deliv­ers fire­wood and pays util­i­ty bills for fam­i­lies in need dur­ing win­ter months
  • Orga­nizes var­i­ous fundrais­ing events to feed the hun­gry, pro­vide for funer­al expens­es for fam­i­lies in need, care for the elder­ly in our area, and pro­vide fund­ing for the Burned Children’s fund of South Car­oli­na

24. Ruth Jack­son, nom­i­nat­ed by Danielle Childers

  • Influ­en­tial care­giv­er to many dur­ing her years as a floor sec­re­tary for York Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, fol­lowed by Pied­mont Med­ical Cen­ter
  • Vol­un­teer at Hope House of Rock Hill
  • Active long­time mem­ber of Cataw­ba Bap­tist Church where she is a cir­cle mem­ber and men­tor to many

25. Butch Jamieson, nom­i­nat­ed by Megan McMa­han

  • Deliv­ers meals to home­bound neigh­bors and donates food to those in need in our area
  • Donat­ed large items such as air con­di­tion­ers, phones and cars to those in need
  • Con­tributed a large selec­tion of toys to the Children’s Atten­tion Home this Christ­mas

26. Mary Jones, nom­i­nat­ed by Aki­lah Jones

  • Reg­is­tered nurse who works in home care
  • Took in a home­less teen, suc­cess­ful­ly offer­ing her a nur­tur­ing envi­ron­ment and push­ing her to con­tin­ue her edu­ca­tion
  • Local school vol­un­teer

27. Car­o­line Krueger, nom­i­nat­ed by Don­na Mur­ray

  • Active mem­ber of Oak­land Bap­tist Church where she is a mem­ber of the choir
  • Past vol­un­teer Sun­day school teacher at a local nurs­ing home
  • Coor­di­na­tor of the Oak­land Min­istry Cen­ter, Cloth­ing Side
  • Rock Hill High School land­scape vol­un­teer and retired Eng­lish teacher

28. David Lawrence, nom­i­nat­ed by Kristin Lawrence

  • Worked as an eco­nom­ic devel­op­er for our area for 20 years
  • His work has helped pro­vide jobs to many in York Coun­ty and revi­tal­ize Rock Hill’s down­town area includ­ing Foun­tain Park, Knowl­edge Park, and the restora­tion of many his­toric build­ings

29. Dou­glas Lit­tle, Jr., nom­i­nat­ed by Sharon Hart­soe

  • Makes char­i­ta­ble donates to the fol­low­ing: Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety, Upper Pal­met­to YMCA, York Police Depart­ment, York School Dis­trict One, and York Com­pre­hen­sive High School
  • Pro­vides books for ele­men­tary schools in York School Dis­trict One
  • Board mem­ber of First Cit­i­zens Bank and YMCA
  • Police offi­cer for 15 years and cur­rent­ly serves as an offi­cer reserve for the York City Police
  • Donates Thanks­giv­ing meals and Christ­mas gifts to fam­i­lies in need

30. Albert Lopez, nom­i­nat­ed by Ann Faulk and Tina Laws

  • Col­lects pay­ments from com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers to cov­er util­i­ty bills for his 94-year-old land­lord
  • Donates funds him­self to help cov­er any bills that are unpaid in his neigh­bor­hood

31. Mark McCarter, nom­i­nat­ed by Daniel Cox

  • 4‑H leader in the com­mu­ni­ty, includ­ing many vol­un­teer hours to teach under­priv­i­leged chil­dren about hors­es
  • Offi­cer with the York Coun­ty Sheriff’s Depart­ment

32. Grady Meeks, Jr., nom­i­nat­ed by Jer­i­lyne Meeks

  • Dis­abled vet­er­an, serv­ing 3 years and 9 months in the Air Force includ­ing tours in Viet­nam and South­east Asia
  • Upon his hon­or­able dis­charge in 1970 due to exten­sive injuries and after his retire­ment from 40 years in man­u­fac­tur­ing, he has helped oth­er vet­er­ans receive over $8 mil­lion dol­lars in ben­e­fits since 2005

33. Pat­ti Mer­cer, nom­i­nat­ed by Lisa McCar­ley

  • Vol­un­teer coor­di­na­tor for the SC Straw­ber­ry Fes­ti­val pageant result­ing in thou­sands of dol­lars being donat­ed to var­i­ous char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tions through­out our com­mu­ni­ty
  • Pro­motes lead­er­ship and pro­vides a good exam­ple for those who work with her, espe­cial­ly to young girls
  • Vol­un­teer judge for Fort Mill’s annu­al Danc­ing with the Stars

34. John Mer­i­cal, nom­i­nat­ed by Nina Mer­i­cal

  • Devot­ed his time and tal­ents to build a bed­room, kitchen, bath, and laun­dry area for a fam­i­ly in need liv­ing 6 hours away by uti­liz­ing his per­son­al vaca­tion time from work and long week­ends away from his fam­i­ly
  • Active mem­ber of his church, serv­ing as a dea­con, Vaca­tion Bible School leader, Bap­tist Men Leader, and Aging Min­istry com­mit­tee where he builds ramps for the elder­ly

35. Frances Moore, nom­i­nat­ed by Joyce Hud­son

  • Sec­re­tary at Col­lege Park Bap­tist church
  • Wife, moth­er, and grand­moth­er of 9
  • Care­tak­er for her 84-year-old moth­er who is in the last stages of demen­tia
  • Vis­i­tor of com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers who are sick, in need, and who are lone­ly

36. Don­ald Murfin, nom­i­nat­ed by Lin­da Murfin

  • Founder of The Com­mu­ni­ty Café, a 501c3 non­prof­it that pro­vides free meals to the less for­tu­nate
  • Coor­di­nates the fundrais­ing, dona­tions, vol­un­teers, and meals to make the non­prof­it run smooth­ly
  • Recip­i­ent of the AARP SC Roger Jermyn Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vice Award

37. Lau­ren Opitz, nom­i­nat­ed by There­sa Opitz

  • 12th grade stu­dent
  • Past assis­tant coach for “Girls on the Run”
  • Vol­un­teer for preschool­ers at a local pri­vate school
  • Pro­motes good self-esteem to oth­er kids in an effort to coun­ter­act the neg­a­tiv­i­ty she expe­ri­enced from being bul­lied in school at a young age

38. Rev. Jef­frey Park, nom­i­nat­ed by Dian­na Park

  • Founder and direc­tor of the Learn­ing Help Cen­ters of Char­lotte, plac­ing chap­lains in low income, immigrant/refugee major­i­ty apart­ment com­plex­es and pro­vides free after school tutor­ing, sports pro­grams, sum­mer camps, and fam­i­ly sta­bi­liza­tion to keep kids in school
  • Active mem­ber for For­est Hill Church FM where he leads small groups and is an Elder in the con­gre­ga­tion
  • Vol­un­teer with Habi­tat for Human­i­ty, Riverview Ele­men­tary, and JAARS min­istry cen­ter

39. Dr. Vina Pesaru, nom­i­nat­ed by Toni Burke

  • Excel­lent care for patients with demen­tia and Alzheimers
  • Edu­cates our com­mu­ni­ty regard­ing these dis­eases and hosts month­ly sup­port meet­ings for fam­i­ly mem­bers and friends of the patients
  • Per­son­al­ly involves her­self in every aspect of her patients, includ­ing back­ground checks for each care­giv­er to insure her patients receive the best
  • Works with Hos­pice to pro­vide end of life care
  • Orga­nized com­mu­ni­ty fundrais­ers to raise aware­ness about the grow­ing prob­lem of these dis­eases and to raise mon­ey for the research and treat­ments of these dis­eases

40. Roger Phillips, nom­i­nat­ed by Pat Phillips

  • Reserve deputy for Lan­cast­er Coun­ty Sheriff’s office for 17 years
  • Helped orga­nize and plan events for the com­mu­ni­ty to insure safe­ty was a pri­or­i­ty

41. Scott Phillips, nom­i­nat­ed by Lisa Phillips

  • Vol­un­teer Adopt-A-Pilot Ambas­sador for local schools rep­re­sent­ing his employ­er, South­west Air­lines
  • Den Leader for Boy Scout Pack 832 and Coor­di­na­tor for Boy Scout Troop 832, STEM Men­tor for Pal­met­to Coun­cil of the Boy Scouts of Amer­i­ca, helped 8 scouts earn their Super­no­va Award
  • Orga­nized the Polar Plunge at the Upper Pal­met­to YMCA
  • Board mem­ber for the Fort Mill YMCA and the Bax­ter Bar­racu­d­as

42. Scott Prophet, nom­i­nat­ed by Alok Singh

  • Extra­or­di­nary neigh­bor and fam­i­ly man
  • Vol­un­teer handy­man to those in need in his com­mu­ni­ty
  • Offered help to a neigh­bor whose hus­band was diag­nosed with ALS by com­plet­ing tasks around her house and main­tain­ing her lawn

43. Melvin Propst, Jr., nom­i­nat­ed by Susan Smith

  • Care­tak­er of the elder­ly, wid­ows, neigh­bors and friends in our com­mu­ni­ty
  • Donates mon­ey, time, food, and clothes to those in need includ­ing large bas­kets of fruit to needy fam­i­lies dur­ing Christ­mas

44. Michael Radl, nom­i­nat­ed by Ray­mond Howard

  • Col­lects and dis­trib­utes baked items to the needy around York Coun­ty includ­ing Pilgrim’s Inn and Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen
  • Active mem­ber of Knights of Colum­bus on the local and state lev­el

45. Floyd Robin­son (deceased), nom­i­nat­ed by Fred Durston

  • Char­ter mem­ber of the Tega Cay Vol­un­teer Fire Depart­ment where he served for 42 years
  • Until his death, he was an active mem­ber of Grace Pres­by­ter­ian Church in Fort Mil
  • Col­lects and recy­cles alu­minum cans from local restau­rants for mon­ey which he donat­ed to the SC Children’s Burn Cen­ter

46. Oscar Sadler, nom­i­nat­ed by Tom­mie Brat­ton

  • Long­time mem­ber of York Electric’s Board of Trustees where his lead­er­ship, sound judge­ment and wise coun­sel helped the Coop­er­a­tive give back and serve our com­mu­ni­ty to the best of our abil­i­ties
  • Active mem­ber of Bul­locks Creek Pres­by­ter­ian Church where he serves as an elder

47. Dr. Winslow Schock, nom­i­nat­ed by Rev. Michael Poore

  • Founder and CEO of Cheer for Chil­dren, a 501c3 char­i­ty help­ing chil­dren
  • Advo­cate for lit­er­a­cy for chil­dren
  • Rock Hill Com­mu­ni­ty Rela­tions Coun­cil board mem­ber and Clin­ton Col­lege Board of Trustees

48. Michael Scog­gins, nom­i­nat­ed by Bryan McDougald

  • York Coun­ty his­to­ri­an
  • South­ern Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War Insti­tute direc­tor
  • Author/­co-author of 12 boos on local and region­al his­to­ry for York Coun­ty
  • Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vice oper­a­tor
  • Car­oli­nas His­toric Avi­a­tion Muse­um vol­un­teer
  • Active mem­ber of Arme­nia Unit­ed Methodist Church includ­ing choir mem­ber, Sun­day school teacher, trustee, and the ceme­tery asso­ci­a­tion
  • Vol­un­teer and exec­u­tive com­mit­tee for Boy Scout Troop #66

49. Judy Smith, nom­i­nat­ed by Anne Wil­son

  • Vol­un­teer for the Fort Mill Care Cen­ter, work­ing to con­nect those that are for­tu­nate with those in need
  • Coor­di­nates Christ­mas gifts for fam­i­lies in need in the Fort Mill area, often donat­ing gifts her­self when they have not been sup­plied by oth­ers in the com­mu­ni­ty

50. Jay Stack­ley, nom­i­nat­ed by Johan­na Sipe

  • Active and ded­i­cat­ed mem­ber of the First Bap­tist Church in York where he serves as a dea­con
  • Vol­un­teer for Habi­tat for Human­i­ty where he recent­ly trav­eled to Roma­nia to build homes, along with sev­er­al oth­er mis­sion trips around the Unit­ed States and abroad
  • Retired elec­tri­cal engi­neer, father to 4, grand­fa­ther to 7, and great-grand­fa­ther to 3.
  • Viet­nam Army Vet­er­an

51. James Tims, nom­i­nat­ed by Susan­na Lee

  • Respect­ed and ded­i­cat­ed neigh­bor to his com­mu­ni­ty where he cur­rent­ly lives and grew up
  • Always will­ing to lend a help­ing hand or ear to those in need in our com­mu­ni­ty
  • 40 Year Vet­er­an
  • Active mem­ber of his church where he has served as the chair­man of the dea­con board for 25 years and as a dea­con for 40 years

52. Bri­an Trail, Sr., nom­i­nat­ed by Bri­an Trail, II

  • City of York Police­man for 27 years
  • Award­ed home­town hero because of his will­ing­ness to serve and his humil­i­ty
  • Giv­ing and loy­al to the mem­bers of his com­mu­ni­ty

53. Tot­ty Wilk­er­son, nom­i­nat­ed by Ann Spencer

  • Leader of a team who pre­pares week­ly meals at Dorothy Day Soup kitchen for more than twelve years
  • Con­ducts a week­ly Bible study for women in prison at Moss Jus­tice
  • Upon release from prison these women, with whom she has lead the study, often call on her for help.  She picks them up and finds them a place to stay
  • Vol­un­teer for the Haven Men’s Shel­ter, His­toric Brat­tonsville, and Muse­um of York Coun­ty
  • Board mem­ber for the fol­low­ing: Haven Men’s Shel­ter (past), YMCA, Glen­cairn Gar­dens, Come See Me (award­ed vol­un­teer of the year award), Fam­i­ly Promise, and was the past com­mis­sion­er for the Cul­ture and Her­itage Board

54. Troy Williams, nom­i­nat­ed by Allen Thomas

  •  Vol­un­teer dog walk­er for elder­ly com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers and those who have fall­en ill
  • Handy­man for those in need in his com­mu­ni­ty who are unable to com­plete the tasks them­selves

55. Kier­ra Lan­drum, nom­i­nat­ed by Saman­tha Niemey­er

  • Work­ing to com­plete her master’s degree in Clin­i­cal Men­tal Health from Winthrop Uni­ver­si­ty and plans to pur­sue her Psy.D. in Clin­i­cal Coun­sel­ing next fall
  • Vol­un­teer work­ing with Autism Spec­trum Dis­or­der, “Girls on the Run” Pied­mont Med­ical Cen­ter and York Coun­ty Board of Dis­abil­i­ties
  •  Pre­sent­ed a lead­er­ship work­shop at the 2015 Emerg­ing Lead­ers Edu­ca­tion Con­fer­ence

56. Ron­nie Aiton, Sr., nom­i­nat­ed by Nicole Shack­elford

  • Vol­un­teer for Area Eleven Spe­cial Olympics
  • Found­ed and fund­ed “Kids for Jesus Bus Min­istry” in our com­mu­ni­ty which picks up kids and adults in the Rock Hill area to attend church who would oth­er­wise not have trans­porta­tion to attend
  • Took a group of chil­dren and a bus load of bot­tled water to Colum­bia to help dur­ing the flood

57. Jules Cagle, nom­i­nat­ed by Car­son Tay­lor

  • Mem­ber of the Extend­ed Bik­er Sis­ters
  • Com­plet­ed fundrais­ing cam­paigns for the fol­low­ing: fun­dal expens­es, “Kru­sade for Kelsey” – a cam­paign to help with med­ical expens­es for brain can­cer treat­ment, Seniors Need San­ta, SC flood vic­tims (and their pets), Safe Pas­sage, Toys for Tots

58. Dale Dove, nom­i­nat­ed by Frances Mabry

  • Founder of Renew Our Com­mu­ni­ty, Inc. (ROC), a 501c3 char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tion found­ed in 2012 help­ing those in need in our area
  • He works to gath­er vol­un­teers and make con­nec­tions through­out the com­mu­ni­ty to help the home­less, pro­vide job edu­ca­tion, and meals when nec­es­sary
  • Award­ed the Con­gres­sion­al Angel of Adop­tions Award, he is a local adop­tion attor­ney in Rock Hill

59. Rev. Dr. Ron King, nom­i­nat­ed by Marc Howie

  • Found­ed his “Feed the Hun­gry Min­istry” over 35 years ago
  • Has helped to feed and clothe thou­sands of home­less over the years

60. Jesse Miskel­ly, nom­i­nat­ed by Tra­cy Miskel­ly

  • 4th year teacher of agri­cul­ture at Floyd D. John­son Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­ter
  • Orga­nizes fundrais­ers to help those that are less for­tu­nate trav­el with the class to learn about the impor­tance of the agri­cul­ture indus­try
  • Board mem­ber for the local soil and water con­ser­va­tion board and nom­i­nee for the State Farm Bureau Young Farmer & Ranch­er com­mit­tee
  • Active mem­ber of Philadel­phia Unit­ed Methodist Church
  • Received the “Teacher Turn the Key” award

61. Dr. Wendy Schon­feld, nom­i­nat­ed by Dr. Michael Schon­feld, Paulette War­moth and Natal­ie Bran­ham

  • Founder of Ride­Abil­i­ty Ther­a­peu­tic Rid­ing Cen­ter, a 501c3 orga­ni­za­tion using hors­es for ther­a­py
  • This cen­ter helps patients gain mus­cle con­trol, trust, and to have fun despite any dis­abil­i­ties they may have
  • The cen­ter focus­es on patients with autism, Down Syn­drome, learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties, mul­ti­ple scle­ros­es, brain injuries, and more
  • Dr. Schon­feld works tire­less­ly along with her staff of 40 vol­un­teers and 9 spe­cial­ly trained hors­es to pro­vide the best ser­vices to her patients so that they can max­i­mize their abil­i­ties

62. Babette Sabia, nom­i­nat­ed by Tra­cy Lit­tle

  • Mem­ber of the Indi­an Land Rotary Club, serv­ing for many years and help­ing to secure thou­sands of dol­lars to be redis­trib­uted to our local schools and libraries
  • Vol­un­teer for Unit­ed Way and Indi­an Land Fall Fes­ti­val

63. Elouise McCree, nom­i­nat­ed by Rick Jiran

  • 25-year vol­un­teer with the 4H pro­gram in Chester
  • Her work with the 4H includes orga­niz­ing the Annu­al Big Fish Tour­na­ment and lead­ing youth in bak­ing pies for those in need on Thanks­giv­ing
  • Part­ner­ing with the Red Cross Dis­as­ter Man­ag­er, she led their com­fort kit pro­gram in the Chester area 3 years, tak­ing in over 500 kits each year

64. Ainslee Moss, nom­i­nat­ed by Wen­di Cham­bers

  • Founder and pres­i­dent of Ten­der Hearts Min­istries of York, a place for women and their chil­dren to find refuge

65. Liz­a­beth Swayne, nom­i­nat­ed by Paul Basha

  • Vol­un­teers 30 or more hours per week to care for women and cou­ples who are strug­gling to make wise choic­es or who sim­ply need good Chris­t­ian advice
  • She pri­mar­i­ly focus­es on sin­gle women try­ing to bet­ter them­selves
  • She meets with a group week­ly to help guide them, speaks to sev­er­al over the phone, and meets with up to 5 indi­vid­u­als on a giv­en week

66. Ricky Teal, nom­i­nat­ed by April and Dale Miller

  • Invites fam­i­lies and peo­ple with spe­cial needs to come to his home to wor­ship
  • Mr. Teal calls this loca­tion Spar­row Ranch and funds the ser­vice through pri­vate dona­tions and his own mon­ey
  • His goal is to cre­ate a place where every­one feels wel­comed despite any obsta­cles they may have in their dai­ly lives because of their dis­abil­i­ties

67. Robert O. Williams, nom­i­nat­ed by Bethany Hardin

  • Past pres­i­dent and CEO of York Elec­tric, his guid­ance was instru­men­tal in grow­ing our coop­er­a­tive and sup­port­ing the com­mu­ni­ty
  • Ded­i­cat­ed to our area and mak­ing it bet­ter, he helped to grow our mem­ber­ship from 5089 mem­bers in late 1960 to 32208 in 2003 upon his retire­ment

68. Mitchell Trues­dale, nom­i­nat­ed by Roy Dun­lap

  • Amer­i­can Red Cross Dis­as­ter Vol­un­teer, help­ing with 7 nation­al dis­as­ters
  • Vol­un­teer at the Daniel Boone Boy Scout Camp in Can­ton, NC
  • Retired Air Force vet­er­an serv­ing for 20 years includ­ing tours in Iraq, Viet­nam and the Cuban Cri­sis
  • Vol­un­teers his time to main­tain moun­tain trails around Asheville, NC includ­ing the Appalachi­an Trail
  • Servers on the Admin­is­tra­tive Coun­cil at Anti­och Unit­ed Methodist Church

69. Ron­nie Hogue, nom­i­nat­ed by John and Jan Myers

  • Vol­un­teer at PATH
  • Cans food to give away to the needy
  • Vis­its shut-ins in their homes, hos­pi­tal rooms, and nurs­ing homes
  • Mem­ber of the Sharon ARP Church, serv­ing as an Elder

70. Dr. George Hook, nom­i­nat­ed by Richard Roach

  • 34-year mem­ber of Oak­land Avenue Pres­by­ter­ian Church, serv­ing as the mod­er­a­tor on the board of dea­cons, elder, and chair­man of the plan­ning and devel­op­ment com­mit­tee
  • Vol­un­teer at ROC den­tal clin­ic
  • Com­plet­ed sev­er­al den­tal mis­sion trips includ­ing Hon­duras and Guatemala
  • Board mem­ber and chair­man of speech and hear­ing cen­ter

71. Minor O. Gask­ins, nom­i­nat­ed by Richard Roach

  • Worked with Rev. Dr. Ron King on his “Feed the Hun­gry Min­istry” for 28 years
  • Dis­trib­uted his book “But­tons” to chil­dren who could not afford it
  • Finan­cial­ly sup­port­ed the Edge­moor Auc­tion Barn to dis­trib­ute over 1000 bicy­cles through­out York and Chester Coun­ties for Christ­mas each year

72. Clay­burn Bar­nette, nom­i­nat­ed by Ragin Craig

  • Active mem­ber of the Bethes­da com­mu­ni­ty for more than 60 years
  • Active mem­ber of his church
  • Serves as a mag­is­trate judge and vol­un­teers with the Bethes­da Fire Depart­ment

73. Wayne Hern­don, nom­i­nat­ed by Ragin Craig

  • Active church mem­ber, includ­ing mis­sion­ary work
  • Vol­un­teer with the Bethes­da Fire Depart­ment
  • Always first on the scene, even at the age of 80, when dis­as­ter strikes

74. Elaine T. Bak­er, nom­i­nat­ed by Michael G. Bak­er

  • Retired school teacher and admin­is­tra­tor, serv­ing the Rock Hill school dis­trict for 49 years
  • Named the Home Town Hero by CN2 News
  • Ded­i­cat­ed ser­vant to the com­mu­ni­ty and to her past stu­dents, always push­ing them to suc­ceed

75. Judy Gray, nom­i­nat­ed by Car­olyn Sue Potts

  • Active mem­ber of Doby’s Bridge Pres­by­ter­ian and leads many events there for both adults and chil­dren
  • Pur­chas­es school sup­plies for needy fam­i­lies at the begin­ning of each school year, but also sup­ports them in oth­er ways includ­ing spir­i­tu­al­ly, finan­cial­ly, and more

 
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