2010 Volunteers in Action

January 2010

• We appreciate the many volunteers who shared part of their New Years Eve to help at First Night 2010. We thank you for donating your time and effort to bring this festival to the Columbia Community!
• Thanks go out to the City Park Patrollers who helped with the First Night 5K Run this year, Anne Heine, Paul Heine and Mark Lee.

February 2010

• Thanks to the following TreeKeepers for their work to remove Callery Pear trees in the Forum Nature Area: Bob Bailey, David Bauer, Angela Belden, Keith brown, Mary DeFroy, Becky Duzan, Roger Ellingson, Bryan Gillespie, Chery Hardy, Julia Karll, George Kennedy, Jacob Kingery, Anne Kome, Dave Langer, Lance Mallette, Brenda & Kyle McCommis, Stephen Meyer, Jen Micek, Dave Overfelt, Bill Reniker, Nancy Rezabek, Lois Shelton, Pam Spencer, Rebecca Spicer, Boyd Tyree, Steve Whipple, Jerry Wright and Donald Wycoff.
• Thanks to Park Patrollers, Rich Eyler, Mary Newby, Christina Wilson and Beck Duzan for helping at the annual Polar Bear Plunge held in Stephens Lake Park.
• Thanks go out to the following Columbia Hospitality Corps volunteers for assisting at the registration table for the ISA conference sponsored by Parks & Recreation: Norma and Ernie Falloon, Barb Seabotl, Bill and Kris Pauls, and Linda Breedlove.
• The following TreeKeepers removed honeysuckle vine off trails and trees at Cosmo Park on February 27... Thank you! Roger Ellingson, Boyd Tyree, Bob Bailey, Randy Ham, Jacob Kingery, Bill reniker, Don Wycoff, Rebecca Spicer, Lance Mallette, Larry Barringhaus, Nancy Rezabek, Yanyan Zhang, Jerry Wright, David Bauer, Cheryl Hardy, Teresa Long, Ted Litchfield, Teressa Litchfield, Keith Brown, George Kennedy, Nora Kennedy, Becky Duzan, Jen Micek, Julia Karll, Vanessa Melton, Pam Spencer, Barbara Ball, Steve Whipple, Herman Traudes, Anne Kome and Bryan Gillespie.
• Thanks for the park cleanup go out to Janet Bagby, Jimmy Kemper, Amy Kemper, James Wallace, Ashley Bagby, Allison Bagby, Weston Kemper, Hayden Bagby and Iyan Kemper.

March 2010

• Thanks to Columbia Hospitality Corps volunteers Diane and David O'Hagan and Norma and Ernie Falloon for staffing the information and registration table at the Association of Realtors conference at the Hilton Garden Inn.
• Thanks for the park cleanup go out to: Clairnel Nervik, Carole Barnel, Jade Andrews, Rose Begemann, Heather Andrews, David Holland, Angie Begemann and Tom Andrews.
• Thanks to the following volunteers for picking up litter at Cosmo Park: Sally Brown, Jamene Brown, Joel Brown, Aaron and Alma Collins.
• Thanks to the Julie Dusheke Group for picking up litter in Worley, Optimist and Stephens Lake Park.