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Community Champions
Cathi Kellett,
Marlene Anderson,
Richard Kearns, Valley United Way Youth Leadership Group
Jack Walsh
Richard O. Belden
Officer Joe DeFelice
ComCast Cable
Wendy Baldino
William F. Bubbico
Nominate Your VSAAC's Valley Community Champions Awards, created in 2006, are given annually to those individuals in the Valley community who take action and effect change in the field of substance abuse prevention and or intervention activities. Individuals can be nominated by friends or colleagues, or identified by VSAAC staff.
To learn more about the awards or to nominate
someone, please
click here to download and print a nomination application, |
“We are so excited about the awards and the positive response that we received from the community in participating in the nomination process,” said Pamela Mautte, Director of VSAAC. “The work that is being done to help prevent substance abuse, on the grass-roots, community level, is so critical to our efforts to keep our kids safe from tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse – and these awards will help spotlight and applaud those efforts.” The Valley Community Champions Awards are supported on a national level by General Mills. As the makers of Wheaties cereal, General Mills creates special memorial Wheaties cereal boxes featuring pictures of each award winner. The awards were also sponsored locally by Wal-Mart. This year's Community Champions Awards Breakfast will be held in conjunction with VSAAC's 20th Anniversary Celebration. To attend the 2010 Community Champions Awards Breakfast (and 20th Anniversary Celebration), call (203) 736-8566. To nominate someone for the 2011 Community Champions Awards, click here to download and print a nomination application, or contact VSAAC at (203) 736-8566. Photo Gallery - 2009 Awards Ceremony
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VSAAC
will host its annual Valley Community Champions Breakfast and Award
Recognition Event on June 2, 1010, at Grassy Hill Lodge
in Derby, CT. The event will honor several Valley citizens who have
“taken action and effected change to help prevent substance abuse
in the Valley community.” This year's honorees include
Daun Barrett, Griffin Hospital - Valley Parish Nurses; Colleen Holt, Derby
High School Student; Joe Laucella, Echo Hose Ambulance; Fred Ortoli, Fred
Ortoli Photography; and John Saccu, Derby Youth Service Bureau. 
