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CHANHASSEN ROTARY CLUB
2011 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
NOMINATION REQUEST
Dear Participating Organization or Former Award Recipient:
The Chanhassen Rotary Club annually awards its Distinguished Service Award to
one Chanhassen resident who exemplifies Rotary's goal of "Service Above Self."
It is through the selfless and dedicated works of citizens who demonstrate their
passion to serve others that all of our lives are enriched. Past recipients include Al
Klingelhutz, Bob Meuwissen, Ladd Conrad, Cy and Madonna Kerber, Curt
Robinson and Terre Kemble.
This year we are asking your organization to again be a part of the identification
and selection process for the Chanhassen Rotary Club's 2011 Distinguished
Service Award. Currently, we are requesting nominations of qualified candidates
for this honor from your organization and others throughout our community.
Enclosed are information about the Chanhassen Rotary Club's Distinguished
Service Award, the award criteria and a 2011 nominations form. For each
nominee, please fill out the enclosed biographical nomination form and return it to
Chanhassen Rotary in the enclosed self - addressed envelope, by fax (952) 442 -6543
or via e-mail at patmichaelson a rid�_Yeviewmedical.orv_ by 5:00 p.m. on February
18, 2011. Nominations received after that date will not be considered for this
year's award.
The Chanhassen Rotary Club Award Committee will select the finalists from all
timely nominations received. Your organization and others serving the City of
Chanhassen will then be asked to cast a vote for their choice from the list of
finalists. The recipient of the 2011 Award will be announced at the Chanhassen
Rotary Club's Spring Gala to be held on April 30, 2011.
Thank you for assisting the Chanhassen Rotary Club in recognizing those in our
city that truly represent our motto of "Service Above Self." If you have any
questions, please contact Pat Michaelson at (952) 442 - 2191x5026. We look
forward to receiving your nominations by February 18, 2011.
Sincerely,
Chanhassen Rotary Club
Distinguished Service Award Committee
CHANHASSEN ROTARY CLUB
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
PURPOSE AND PROCESS
The Chanhassen Rotary Club annually presents its Distinguished Service Award to
one Chanhassen resident who exemplifies Rotary's goal of "Service Above Self." It
is through the selfless and dedicated works of citizens who demonstrate their passion
to serve others that all of our lives are enriched.
Rotary International is a worldwide organization of business and professional
leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all
vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Our club seeks to
recognize those Chanhassen residents who serve others, primarily in our city, in a
manner that is above and beyond the level usually expected of all good citizens.
This will allow us to honor them, encourage others to follow their leadership,
promote civic pride, and advance the ideals of our local Rotary club and Rotary
International.
Our friends and neighbors serve others in ways which our club members may not
even be aware. Therefore, we seek individual nominations from the various non-
profit, religious and civic organizations located and operating within Chanhassen.
The Award Committee will evaluate each nominee's service history, and select two
to three finalists for that year's award. Ballots will be distributed to each identified
Chanhassen organization, and the finalist who receives the most votes will be
awarded that year's Distinguished Service Award at the Chanhassen Rotary's annual
Spring Gala.
All nominees will be individually recognized for their service. All finalists will be
publicly recognized at the Spring Gala and will receive a framed certificate. Each
Distinguished Service Award winner will receive an individual award plaque and
have his or her named added to a publicly displayed commemorative award plate.
Our objective is to build a tradition within the City of Chanhassen. A tradition that
honors those who exemplify "Service Above Self'. A tradition that honors those
that live up to the award's name — the Chanhassen Rotary's Distinguished Service
Award.
CHANHASSEN ROTARY CLUB
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
AWARD CRITERIA
1. Candidates must reflect Rotary International's motto of the "Service Above Self'
2. Candidates must be residents of the City of Chanhassen.
3. The candidate's qualifying service may be performed locally, domestically and /or
internationally.
4. Nominees may come from any occupation, including retired individuals and
"homemakers."
5. The service activity or activities prompting nomination are beyond the normal scope
of one's employment.
6. "Service Above Self' has been defined as: "any and all service above and beyond
the usual level required of all good citizens, which is performed in a meritorious
manner over a period of years, or would be considered extraordinary service or a
heroic act performed in any one year or over a number of years."
7. The nominee's service includes their contributions to one or more organizations.
8. Re- nominations of previous award nominees and finalists are welcome.
CHANHASSEN ROTARY CLUB
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
2011 NOMINATION FORM
Nominator's Name / Organization Nominator's Phone Number
Nominee Name:
Home Address:
Employer:
Work Phone #:
Home Phone #:
Please provide the following information for the nominee as succinctly as possible. Attach additional
pages as necessary.
List nominee's major volunteer service activities with dates, offices and awards.
2. Statement of how the nominee has exhibited "Service Above Self."
3. In a few sentences, please state why all of Chanhassen would be proud to recognize your
nominee's distinguished service to others.
To ensure the best representation of your candidate, please submit a full and complete nomination form.
This form will be reviewed with the nominee for accuracy. Nominee may, in his or her sole discretion,
decline nomination.
Please return to Chanhassen Rotary's Distinguished Service Award Committee in the enclosed self -
address envelope, fax to (952) 442 -6543 or e-mail oat. michaelson 'u,rid(e\ie��medical.ora by 5:00 p.m.
February 18, 2011. Thank You!
Nominations must be received on or before February 18, 2011, in order to be considered.
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or recount how kids nearly dashed into
traffic to reach a dog that had been hit by a
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Unlike most residential parts of Edina, the shopping
area of 50th Street and France Avenue S. has plenty
of accessible sidewalks.
Amid an urban design push to
emphasize walking, Edina plans to
look harder at how to increase its
pedestrian appeal. Minneapolis is
already a national leader.
By MARY JANE SMETANKA Star Tribune
Last update: December 22, 2010 - 8:01 PM
Month after month, requests for new stop
signs come to Edina City Hall. People
emotionally plead with the City Council for
Then city engineers step forward to explain
why no stop signs are needed: There aren't
enough accidents, average vehicle speed isn't
too high and traffic volume doesn't meet the
threshold for a stop sign.
Council Member Mary Brindle heard these
appeals last spring. She thought that
sometimes traffic analysis is too clinical to
reflect how people really live and want to live.
"It's about healthy living, neighborhood
connectedness and livability," she said.
Brindle wants Edina to consider developing a
"pedestrian master plan," which lays out how
to reduce conflicts between pedestrians and
vehicles, tries to improve accessibility for
people on foot and make walking in the city
more pleasant.
Edina Mayor Jim Hovland shares Brindle's
interest in making it easier to be a pedestrian
in Edina, saying he wants to make his city
"the most walkable community in
Minnesota."
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Last year Minneapolis approved what is
believed to be the state's first such city
pedestrian plan. The city now has a
pennanent citizen advisory committee that
gives officials feedback on street
reconstruction and design from a pedestrian
point of view.
Cities such as Seattle, Denver, Portland and
Boston also have pedestrian master plans.
The goal is urban design that encourages
walking, not only for residents' health, but to
create an active street life that makes
neighborhoods feel welcoming and safe.
'Not so auto - oriented'
Minneapolis transportation planner Anna
Flintoft, who was project manager for the
city's pedestrian master plan, said that until r
ecently cities often lumped planning for
pedestrians with planning for bicyclists. They
are not the same thing, she said. That means
a new way of thinking for city officials.
"There's a definite shift happening," she said.
"There's so much more public engagement
now ... more recognition of livability, health
and transit issues. They're all pointing in the
same direction: not so auto- oriented."
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In Mimleapolis, 92 percent of streets have
sidewalks, and much of the city is easy and
pleasant for pedestrians to navigate. The city
is among the top 10 nationwide in the
proportion of residents who walk to work,
and 13 percent of all the trips people make in
Minneapolis are made by walking.
But 56 percent of adult Minneapolis residents
are overweight and 20 percent are obese,
and people don't walk where they don't feel
comfortable.
Flintoft said some intersections are so wide
that they're difficult or intimidating to cross
on foot. Other areas with sidewalks are
unappealing, and people don't want to walk
there.
In the Warehouse District, where sprawling
buildings are being converted to housing,
very long blocks and the presence of loading
docks present challenges for sidewalk
design.
"It's about creating appealing places ...
whether it's a vibrant place to walk or a place t
o hang out and socialize," Flinftoft said.
A goal of Minneapolis' pedestrian master plan
is to create a culture of walking. It suggests
creating walking maps and better signs in
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areas like the downtown skyways. It talks of
getting people to advocate for themselves as
pedestrians much as bicyclists already do.
Many people simply don't think of
themselves as pedestrians, Flintoft said.
Where sidewalks don't rule
If Minneapolis is blanketed with sidewalks,
Edina has very few.
When Edina residents take a stroll, they often
walk along the edge of wide, quiet residential s
treets. But not all of those streets are quiet.
In neighborhoods like Brindle's, roads are so
curvy that a driver rounding a turn may not
see a pedestrian until the last second. Brindle
said that rather than walk along a road with
hairpin turns to reach a nearby school, she
bikes or drives.
Some of Edina's 39 parks are on very busy
roads, like 50th or 70th Streets.
"I had someone tell me that when they take
their kids to Arden Park, they have to cross
50th Street in a car," Brindle said. "Their kids
can't just go to the park."
Edina a pedestrian danger?
Recently Edina council members received an
e -mail from a resident with children who
complained about how fast traffic was near
schools. The resident added that though they
had lived in New York, Los Angeles and
Minneapolis, "Edina stands out as the most
dangerous and stressful place I have ever
attempted to be a pedestrian."
The city already has school safety zones
where drivers are supposed to slow to 25
miles per hour and marked crosswalks help
people cross the street. Brindle wonders if
perhaps similar zones need to be set up
around parks.
"We need something to make parks a center
point in their neighborhood, to celebrate the
park and make it easier to get there," she
said.
Much of Edina was purposely developed
without sidewalks. Adding them is
controversial. When streets are replaced,
residents are assessed for almost all of that
cost and few want the added expense of a
new sidewalk, Hovland said. Ilse would like to
see the state allow cities to assess a citywide
sidewalk utility fee to lighten the financial
load on individual residents.
Brindle said the City Council will meet soon
with the city's Transportation Commission to
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