This is your opportunity to nominate a person of your choice for the 2017 Moorestown Citizen of the Year Award.
Moorestown’s Citizen of the Year Award is announced annually by the Moorestown Service Clubs Council which consists of the Rotary Lunch and Breakfast Clubs, The Lions Club and the Y Service Club. All four Clubs take great pride in enhancing the quality of life in Moorestown by contributing various community service projects within the town and encouraging others do to the same.
To foster these ideals The Service Clubs Council has, since 1954 (this is the 63nd anniversary), solicited nominations town wide and selected an individual each year who “is a Moorestown resident and has through varied voluntary community service activities significantly contributed to the quality of life of both our community and its citizens.”
Please contact Keith Omlor for a nomination form and submit your nomination in either hard copy to: Service Club Council, attn. Keith Omlor, Vice-Chair SSC, Community House, 16E Main Street, Moorestown, NJ 08057 or in electronic format to: rkomlor@comcast.net
All nominations must be submitted to the Service Club Council by Thursday, Dec. 1. The council will announce their selection in January and there will be a Citizen of the Year celebration in the Moorestown Community House in February, 2017.
Factors to be considered for nomination are:
Although service activities are not geographically limited to Moorestown, nominee must be or have been a resident of the Moorestown Township.
Community service through individual volunteer effort and/or participation in group activities, unrelated to nominee’s employment.
Contributions through public service (elective or appointed positions at the local county, state or federal levels).
Multiple and varied volunteer efforts, including services which help bring our community and its citizens closer together.
Honors, awards and citations which bring recognition to the nominee and community for his or her contributions.
