Tag: Citizen of the Year

CITIZENS OF THE YEAR

Gus and Christine Halandras are the Meeker Chamber of Commerce’s designated Citizens of the Year for 2022 for their many decades of service to the Meeker community. The award was presented at Saturday’s Mountains & Mules end-of-the-season event put on by Trappers Lake Lodge. | CAITLIN WALKER PHOTOS

Editor’s Column: Gobsmacked!

It means “utterly astonished; astounded,” and it’s the perfect descriptor for my reaction to the announcement that I was chosen Meeker’s Citizen of the Year for 2019. It’s taken me several days to wrap my head around it. First, I’m honored and challenged: honored to be chosen when there are[Read More…]

CITIZEN OF THE YEAR …

About 100 Meeker Chamber of Commerce members gathered at “One Table” for the annual chamber dinner Friday, June 29. Father Scott Hollenbeck, rector of St. James Episcopal Church since 2007, was nominated by members of his parish as Meeker’s Citizen of the Year for 2018 for his community volunteer work[Read More…]