Citizens can nominate volunteers for the Tacoma City Councils 2003 City of Destiny Awards through Feb. 7. These yearly honors promote the importance of community service and recognize individuals and groups who make outstanding contributions to Tacoma.
You can nominate adults in the following categories:
– Leadership: Honors the volunteer who provides leadership that inspires others to help meet a need in the community.
– Sustained Service: Honors the volunteer who provides dedicated service over an extended period of time to benefit the community.
– Neighborhood Group or Community Partnership: Honors the group of volunteers that demonstrates teamwork in a project that benefits the community.
– Corporation, Business or Entrepreneur: Honors the corporation, business or entrepreneur instrumental in developing or supporting community or environmental programs. Criteria for this category include programs initiated by management, voluntary participation and involvement of employees in community activities.
– Employee or Union Group: Honors employees of businesses, unions, or governmental entities instrumental in developing or supporting community programs. Criteria for category include programs initiated by employees, voluntary participation and involvement of employees in community activities.
You can nominate youth (up to age 21) in the following categories:
– Leadership: Honors the young volunteer who provides leadership that inspires others to help meet a need in the community.
– Service: Honors the young volunteer who has provided a quiet, yet consistent, vital service to others that often goes unnoticed.
– Youth/Young Adult Group: Honors the group of young volunteers that has demonstrated extraordinary initiative and originality in creating, designing, organizing or reinvigorating a program or project to respond to community needs and create positive social change.
The City Council will present the City of Destiny Awards to the winners and recognize nominees at a special ceremony May 13 at the Theatre on the Square.
To obtain a nomination form, call the citys Community Relations Office at 253/591-5790, or stop by the office, 728 St. Helens Ave., Room 11, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can download a copy of the nomination form from Tacomas Website at:
www.cityoftacoma.org/DestinyNomination.
You can also pick up nomination forms in the City Clerks Office, Tacoma Municipal Building, 747 Market St., Room 220, and from Tacoma Public Library branches.
