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Congratulations!
2018 Neighborhood
Partnership Awards Honorees
 The Neighborhood
Partnership Awards recognizes neighbors or groups who through their
leadership and service work with the City’s Recognized Neighborhoods are
making exceptional contributions to improve the quality of life in their
neighborhoods. The program honors those who make a difference in the
community without seeking or receiving recognition for their service. The
2018 honorees include individuals and groups, who organized worked to
develop a sense of community and pride in their neighborhood, who volunteer
time for neighborhood beautification, spearheaded community building
efforts, organized neighbor helping neighbor initiatives, and provided
excellent leadership.
The
Neighborhood Partnership Awards program provides an excellent opportunity
for Concord’s neighbors to celebrate neighbors and community groups whose
work has contributed to increasing the quality of life in our neighborhoods
and City. We’re pleased to announce the following as the 2018 Neighborhood
Partnership Awards honorees:
Ms. Shirley Brannan
The Beverly Hills
Neighborhood would like to recognize Shirley Brannan for her continued
support and participation in neighborhood activities. As a past board
member, Shirley provides insight and suggestions to the board on how to
improve our programs and gain added support from the neighbors. As a
long-time Beverly Hills resident, Shirley also has great knowledge of the
neighbors and helps the board keep up with new residents who have moved in
as well as families who have had losses in the family
so we can send a card as a neighborhood. We appreciate Shirley's energy,
efforts, and her desire to return Beverly Hills to a vibrant, tight knit
community.
Lee Shuman, David and
Shannon Burpeau, and Joni Liebel
The Beverly Hills Neighborhood
would like to recognize Lee Shuman, David and Shannon Burpeau,
and Joni Liebel for their leadership in the
Beverly Hills Elementary School Save Our Schools initiative. This
amazing foursome poured their hearts and souls into an effort which initially
was about saving our neighborhood elementary school but has grown into a
much larger effort around protecting all Concord city elementary
schools. They organized our neighborhood and surrounding
neighborhoods into asking for insight and answers from our school board and
in doing so they have helped to create a tighter bond in the Beverly Hills
neighborhood and within our city schools. Regardless of the end
outcome of the SOS effort, these Beverly Hills neighbors have shown us all
what can happen when we unite for a common goal.
Recognized
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills Neighborhood Association
Janet Coward
Janet is a tireless
community leader on our Afton planned unit development board and smaller
townhome board--and has been for years. Janet is worthy of recognition for
her tireless hours of service to our neighbors/landscapes and for her
bookkeeping and leadership volunteer services for our community. Janet gets
her hands dirty: tirelessly planting, pruning and securing community
beautification grants so that the beauty of Afton's common areas can be
enjoyed by all. Janet's service work, leadership, and acts of
kindness for her neighbors and Forest Hills United Methodist Church members
and guests help to make our city a great place to live, work, and play.
Recognized
Neighborhood: Afton Village Community Association
Hampden Village Social
Committee
Members of the Hampden
Village Social Committee consistently work hard and goes above and beyond
to bring their neighbors together. They plan social gatherings that
give time for families to unite and get to know one another, and giving so
much of themselves to plan meetings, special activities, and fun family
events that the whole neighborhood can attend. The community at one time
during the year struggled with some animosity among some of the neighbors
and the events planned and executed by the Social Committee help restore
trust and encourage members with developing a sense of community. All of the neighbors have been given the opportunity to
gather, talk in a laid-back setting, dance, share a meal, and have our
children play together. AII of the ladies and gentleman
involved should be super proud of all the "togetherness" they
have promoted in Hampden Village.
Recognized Neighborhood:
Hampden Village
Logan
Community Board members Maya Jones & Donald Watson
Strong leadership on the neighborhood’s
executive board is essential to the overall success of the neighborhood
association. In the Logan community, we are fortunate to have
volunteer board members who are consistent and committee to ensuring
success for our neighborhood organization. Therefore, we would like
to recognize the commitment and work of two board members - Ms. Maya Jones
and Donald Watson. As a new board member, Mr. Watson is a committed
community activist who provide great guidance and is well versed in
housing, code enforcement, and community develop and provides the board of
directors with a lot of insight and guidance. Maya brings a lot of youth to
the board and is helping the board explore opportunities to get the youth
involved in activities of the associations. The leadership and
dedication of these two board members is certainly appreciated and
appreciate their continued service to the Logan Community.
Recognized Neighborhood: Logan
Community Association
Mr. Elmer Spratt
Mr. Spratt is a
committed servant to the neighbors in Underwood with a big heart for
improving the quality of life in the City of Concord. Throughout his many
years of service as the President of the Underwood Park Neighborhood he has
worked closely with the City to help address substandard housing conditions
and safety in the neighborhood. He is the type of neighbor and
citizen that makes Concord a great place to live. He has maintained a
close relationship with city officials as well as established great
relationships with neighborhood leaders in adjoining neighborhoods.
Whenever anyone needs a helping hand, Mr. Spratt has made it his duty to help out or to find someone to help out. He is very
generous, kind, and community-oriented person who cares about neighbors.
Recognized
Neighborhood: Underwood Park Neighborhood Association
Mark Michaud
Mark has served the Asheford Green community honestly, admirably and
tirelessly almost 20 years. For many of those years, he graciously
served simultaneously as board treasurer and secretary. During his tenure,
he assisted in development strategies to enhance the value of our
properties and worked to increase the quality of life for our residents.
Much of Mark's efforts for Asheford Green
centered around the finances, budgets and fiduciary responsibilities that
come with the financial integrity of a planned development. Mark was truly
a one man "Management Company"...long before we actually hired one! He has always been most
unselfish and has continually risen to the challenge of issues that have
confronted our neighborhood. He has been a steady hand and a guiding
force to promote what we believe is the greatest residential community in
Concord. We are proud to nominate Mark Michaud as Asheford
Green's NEIGHBORHOOD HERO. A wonderful neighbor and a truly good
friend.
Recognized
Neighborhood: Asheford Green Homeowners
Association
Ken Clay & Mary
Byers
Ken Clay and &
Mary Byers are neighbors who make a difference in their neighborhood by
quietly but regularly taking on the task of maintaining their
neighborhood’s entrance sign. They have done this consistently
without ever being asked to do so – they just took it upon themselves to
maintain the entrance because they feel that it is the right thing to
do. The neighbors benefit from a well-kept welcoming entrance
sign. They have done this for years without ever seeking a public
thank you. Why? Because they don’t expect it at all…that is why
they’re our neighborhood heroes. Just committed neighbors who taken
on responsibilities for someone (or neighborhood) without any expectations
or need for thanks.
The Tay
Mar neighborhood is grateful to have these committed neighbors.
Nominated by Tay Mor Neighborhood Lind Clay resident. Tay Mor is not a City recognized neighborhood.
These
individuals/groups were nominated by their neighborhood for the hard work
and significant efforts made to engage residents, lead, or volunteer time
in their neighborhoods. The honorees will be recognized during the December
17, 2018 Neighborhood Leadership Council Recognition event and also be featured in the City Circular Magazine, the neighborhood newsletter, and posted on the program website.
RSVP for the recognition
event.
Please share this information with members of your
neighborhood organization.
Contact Cherie Jzar, AICP Concord Community Outreach
Coordinator via email at jzarc@concordnc.gov or call 704-920-5298 for more information.
Partnership
for Stronger Neighborhoods
BUILDING relationships to
EMPOWER communities
and CONNECT citizens to resources.
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