By LARRY LANNAN
In celebration of National Volunteer Week, the City of Fishers has announced the City of Service Awards. Three new community-nominated awards will be featured this year: Essential Worker of the Year, Non-Profit Staffer of the Year, and Community Servant of the Year.
Boy Scout Troop 199 was named the Fishers Parks Group Volunteer of the Year. (Photo provided by City of Fishers)
Winners were selected by the Fishers City Council through a blind process and will be celebrated throughout the week online at ThisIsFishers.com/CityofService and on social media.
This year’s award winners include:
- Essential Worker of the Year: Jesse and Debra McDaniel, American Red Cross
- Non-Profit Staffer of the Year: Jennifer Miller, Shepherd’s Center of Hamilton County
- Community Servant of the Year: Anitha and Vani Sharma
- Fishers Non-Profit Volunteer of the Year: Jamison Vance, Mudsock Youth Athletics
- Fishers Parks Adult Volunteer of the Year: Wishes to Remain Anonymous
- Fishers Parks Youth Volunteer of the Year: Johna Coffey
- Fishers Parks Group Volunteer of the Year: Boy Scout Troop 199
- Fishers Police Department Volunteer of the Year: Art Hennig
- Hamilton Southeastern Schools Foundation Volunteer of the Year: Michael Zahm
The city says that in the year 2020, over 350 individual and group volunteers dedicated over 17,000 hours of their time and talent to the local community.