By DENISE MOE
For the Reporter
Noblesville School Board member and longtime GOP faithful Laura Alerding has been given the Susan Armstrong Heart of the GOP Award.
Alerding
Alerding has consistently volunteered for the Republican Party. She is a precinct committeeman, co-chair of the Noblesville GOP club, treasurer for the Republican Women’s Club, and last year won her race for Noblesville School Board.
Alerding has come up with some creative ideas for events, including next Sunday’s chili cookoff between the Noblesville and Westfield GOP clubs, raising money for the party including a very successful silent auction, and ways to heighten public awareness of the GOP. She has knocked on hundreds of doors for candidates and made phone calls.
Hamilton County Republican Party Chair Laura Campbell and the entire Hamilton County GOP was honored to present Alerding with the 2021 Susan Armstrong Heart of the GOP Award.
Susan Armstrong was a longtime precinct committeeman and volunteer, who during the course of her later years struggled with heart failure. While awaiting a heart transplant, she continued her work for the party by making phone calls and writing notes to voters. She received a donor heart and was able to continue volunteering in person for the party for several years prior to her passing.
More about Laura Alerding
From 2010 to the present, Alerding was elected or assigned to be a Convention Delegate at the Indiana GOP Conventions. In 2014, Alerding was named Republican of the Year for Washington Township.
In February 2016, she and her husband Jim moved to Noblesville and soon afterward she met Laura Campbell, Hamilton County GOP Chairwoman. Campbell assigned Alerding as a precinct committeeman in Hamilton County. In late 2018, Alerding became a co-chair for the Noblesville GOP Club and participated in GOP parades, volunteered at the GOP 4-H Fair booth and planned several Noblesville GOP Club meetings featuring candidates for various offices in addition to campaigning for several candidates. She continues to co-chair this club.
Alerding ran for Noblesville School Board in 2020. She campaigned for her own office and for Victoria Spartz at the same time during the months leading up to the 2020 general election.
With the help of her husband Jim and other volunteers, Alerding won her election and helped Spartz win her election to be the Congresswoman for District 5.
Alerding’s school board term began in January 2021, at which time she also agreed to be a board member of the Hamilton East Public Library and was placed on the Noblesville Redevelopment Commission as a non-voting member. She and her husband Jim have a combined family of six children and 18 grandchildren.