MARSHALL EARNS AWARD FOR SERVICE TO SCOUTING
State Labor Commissioner Glenn Marshall has been named recipient of the George Meany Award — the highest honor given by organized labor — presented by the Scouts of America for service to youth. Marshall is a past member of Boy Scout Troop No. 60, which is chartered to the Lake Forest Association in Bridgeport. He is a member of the board of directors of the organization’s Connecticut Yankee Council, which serves nearly 23,000 young people in Fairfield, New Haven and parts of Hartford counties. Marshall played a role in forming the Connecticut Construction Industry’s Good Scout Luncheon in 2005 — an event that has since raised more than $250,000 for character building and leadership development programs in southwestern Connecticut.
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GUILFORD TEENS SELECTED AS VIDEO CONTEST FINALISTS
A video created by Guilford teens Alyssa Crespo and Heather O’Connell has been chosen as a finalist in the American Bankers Association Education Foundation’s “Lights, Camera, Save!” national video contest. The winners receive a U.S. savings bond. The video was submitted to Guilford Savings Bank in October and was selected by a panel of local judges. Crespo and O’Connell will each receive a $1,000 savings bond from Guilford Savings Bank for achieving first place on the local level.
After winning the first round, the video was entered into a national contest and was selected as a top 12 finalist from videos submitted by more than 175 participating banks — the only entry from New England to make it into the top 12. Lights, Camera, Save!, an offshoot of the ABA Education Foundation’s Teach Children to Save program, is a competition that encourages teens to use video to communicate the value of saving and inspire others to become lifelong savers. Grand prize winners will be announced in March via YouTube.
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HOP MEADOW COUNTRY CLUB HONORED
Simsbury’s Hop Meadow Country Club recently received the Distinguished Club Award presented by the Connecticut State Golf Association. Hop Meadow, established by local residents in 1961 and home to a Geoffrey Cornish-designed championship golf course, has hosted two Connecticut Mid-Amateur Championships and several USGA qualifiers, including the 2008 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship.
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SIMSBURY LIBRARIAN RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD
Jennifer O. Keohane, a business outreach librarian at the Simsbury Public Library, has been named one of just 10 librarians in the country recognized for service to their communities as winners of the Carnegie Corp. of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. In addition, Michelle Luhtala, a librarian at the New Canaan High School Library, was also honored.
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