Jim Powell - Distinguished Citizen of the Year 2008
and Eagle Award Winner 2009
On December 15th, the Mt. Pleasant Rotary Club was happy to present the 2008 Distinguished Citizenship Award to Mr. Jim Powell for his 50 years of devoted service to coach youth sport teams. Ken Schaeffer presented the award at the Rotary luncheon held at Riverwood Country Club.
As part of its annual banquet, the Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber of Commerce presents Eagle Awards to some of the community's most deserving volunteers. This years recipients represent extraordinary service to their organizations and to our community.
Congratulations and thank you all for your hard work!!!
2008 Mt Pleasant Rotary club’s nomination for the Chamber of Commerce Eagle Award is Kathy Beebe.
Okay here goes. I have to write a story about myself.
Secretary and web master (me) Kathy Beebe joined Rotary in 2004. I was recruited by the imfamous Ken Schaeffer. From the get-go I took an active leadership role, as newsletter editor. As other things came up and needed to be done, I always seemed to have my hand up, volunteering to serve the club.
I do a bit of everything. From set up to take down, paper work, record keeping, board meetings, music, computer programming, and writing, I do it all. This includes running around town willy-nilly, soliciting items for the auction, of which I am chairman. I am there for every project and event, doing my best to fulfill my pledge for “service above self”. I am the webmaster of this awesome site. Needless to say, I love Rotary, but more than the organization itself, I love the Rotarians.
In my “real job” I am Coordinator of Access to Recreation Project for the Mt. Pleasant Community Foundation. (See below.) That has led me to work with the Women's Initiative's Speaker Series. Also, I am serving as chair of publicity and promotions for the Isabella County Sesquicentennial, to be held in August of 2009, and will again serve as Rotary Auction Chair this year. I help my pastor's wife with projects for her Women's and Childrens ministries when I have a few extra minutes. I am secretary of the Mt Pleasant Women's Forum, which meets once a month as well. (Wow...no wonder I never have time to clean my house.)
In my “real life” I take care of my elderly parents one day each week. That is especially hard since my 86-year-old mother has Alzheimer’s and my father has suffered three strokes. The love of my life is Dr. Bill Beebe of MidMichigan Health and my four very accomplished children, aged 29,31,33,and 36. The joy of my life is Leah and Susannah Beebe, my two incredibly beautiful and brilliant granddaughters. I have the priveldge of caring for my two year old Leah on a fairly regular basis.
“I thought we moved to Mt. Pleasant for you,” I recently said to my husband, “But now I know, it was for me.”
Access Adventure Trail is a universally accessible pathway through one of Mt. Pleasant’s newest, most scenic and protected areas. The trail will start at Chipp-A-Waters Park, and extend one mile south towards CMU campus. This trail joins the existing, barrier free, three-mile Mt. Pleasant Riverwalk Pathway. It follows the Chippewa River corridor through five major city parks and through the heart of historic downtown Mt. Pleasant. The trails blend the urban environment with the unique natural resources found inside the city limits to promote healthy lifestyle options and universal access for people of all ages and abilities.
Access to Adventure Trailis made possible by a $419,000 grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation received by the Mt. Pleasant Area Community Foundation, who is partnered with the City of Mt. Pleasant Parks and Recreation department for this project. This was one of eight Access to Recreation grants received statewide. The City of Mt. Pleasant gave a matching grant of $200,000. Supporters of the Mt. Pleasant Area Community Foundation for an endowment fund pledge another $120,000, for future Access to Recreation projects.
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