ALLIANCE − An overjoyed Lisa Trummer, preventing again tears, mentioned she does not usually like surprises.
The one she obtained Monday was a “nice shock,” she mentioned afterward.
Trummer, an agent at Tanner Actual Property, obtained the celebrated Athena Leadership Award from the Ladies’s Division of the Alliance Space Chamber of Commerce.
She was one among 5 award recipients honored throughout Monday’s Enterprise Alliance Awards luncheon at College of Mount Union’s Hoover-Worth Campus Heart.
About 200 neighborhood, faculty and enterprise leaders attended the occasion.
“I am blessed and humbled by this award,” Trummer instructed the group.
The Athena Management award is given to a girl who embodies the very best stage {of professional} excellence in her enterprise or occupation, devotes time into the neighborhood and actively assists different ladies in fostering their management potential.
Extra award winners
The next additionally obtained awards from the chamber:
Small Enterprise of the 12 months (Lower than 20 workers) − YWCA of Alliance. The company was honored for its outreach providers and mission to finish racism, empower ladies and fight social injustice.
“It means a lot that individuals are recognizing the work that we do. We have now a mission and we don’t cease as a result of folks suppose hate belongs in our Alliance neighborhood,” mentioned Stacie Weimer, government director and CEO of the YWCA of Alliance.
Massive Enterprise of the 12 months (Greater than 20 workers) − Grove Equipment, TV, Furnishings and Mattresses. It was awarded for its 4 generations of retail service and giving again to the neighborhood.
“It is so good to dwell in a small city,” mentioned Dave Mitchell, president of Grove Equipment. “In Alliance, we at all times know who to go to (with an issue). It is so great. And the small companies in our city make the standard of our lives so significantly better.”
Spirit of Enterprise Award – Nancy Castellucci of Cassaday-Turkle-Christian Funeral and Cremation Providers. The award honors a person who demonstrates dedication to the Alliance-area enterprise neighborhood.
“This neighborhood is nice, and everybody works collectively when they should do one thing,” Castellucci mentioned. “I am so blessed to have grown up on this neighborhood.”
The ceremony ended with one other shock.
R. Mark Locke, the chamber’s president and CEO, who’s retiring in April after 20 years, obtained an Lifetime Service Award. Shocked, Locke mentioned this award wasn’t on the agenda.
Locke obtained the particular recognition from Rick Baxter, president of Alliance Space Growth, to shut out the festivities.
“I used to be concerned in any side of as we speak’s occasion. After I made the agenda, this was not on the agenda,” Locke mentioned, smiling. “Thanks. It has been an unimaginable 20 years.”
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