2023 Annual NRVRC Awards

2023 Annual NRVRC Awards 4Help us recognize the people who make an impact in the New River Valley! We need you to nominate worthy candidates for this year’s awards program. The Commission is accepting nominations for our regional awards until August 15th.  Award recipients will be honored in the Fall of 2023. Please click on the links below to nominate candidates for Champion of the Valley (elected/appointed official), Citizen of the Valley, and Friend of the Valley (outside the region).

 Champion of the Valley-Elected/Appointed Official (nominate here)

Previous award recipients include:

2014 Mr. Joseph Sheffey
Pulaski County Board of Supervisors, retired

2015 Mr. Rick Boucher
U.S. House of Representatives 1983-2011

2016 Delegate Joseph Yost
12th House District of Virginia 2012-2018

2016 Mr. William Brown
Montgomery County Board of Supervisors, retired

2017 Mr. Chris McKlarney
Giles County Administrator

2018 Ms. Susan Kidd
Town of Narrows

2019 Delegate Nick Rush
7th House District in Virginia

2020 Mr. Chris Tuck
Montgomery County Board of Supervisors, retired

2021 Mr. Craig Meadows
Montgomery County

2021 Ms. Lydeana Martin
Floyd County

2022 Ms. Penny Franklin
Montgomery County School Board

 Citizen of the Valley (nominate here)

Previous award recipients include:

2014 Dr. Charles Steger
Virginia Tech President

2015 Mr. Ken Anderson
CEO, Anderson & Associates, Inc.

2016 Ms. Penelope Kyle, JD
Radford University President

2017 Mr. Woody Crenshaw
Floyd County Entrepreneur

2018 Mr. David Hagan
Business Owner / Investor

2018 Ms. P. Buckley Moss
Artist / Philanthropist

 2019 Mr. Raymond Smoot
Community Leader

2020 Mr. Bill Ellenbogen
Community Advocate

2021 Ms. Shelly Fortier
Habitat for Humanity of the NRV

2021 Mr. John Dooley, PHD
Virginia Tech Foundation

2022 Mr. Janaka Casper
Community Housing Partners

 Friend of the Valley (nominate here)

Previous award recipients include:

2016 Mary Moody Northen Foundation

Mountain Lake Lodge

2017  Mr. Bill Shelton

Director of the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development

2019 Mr. John Smolak, III

Appalachian Power

2022 New River Conservancy

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