Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers honored its founders and recognized its volunteer of the year for 2020 at a 25th anniversary celebration on Dec. 5.
Commemorative plaques were presented to co-founders Michael Hutton and Kevin O’Brien. David Hamilton, another founder and the organization’s longtime executive director, was unable to attend.
Also at the event, Helen Carlsen was honored as volunteer of the year by current RFOV executive director Ron Rash.
Michael Hutton (left) is congratulated by Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers executive director Ron Rash for being a founder of the organization.
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Kevin O’Brien (left) receives recognition for his co-founding role with Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers at a ceremony in Basalt on Dec. 5.
One of the many I can’t believe this is real moments that hit me in the first days, back when my wife was the only one who was sick, was when we were speaking to each other through a glass door. I thought to myself, Wait, I wrote this scene once.
She had woken on a Monday morning with body aches, headache, and a fever. In retrospect, she’d been fighting it for a couple days but had thought it was a cold or allergies. Now it was Thursday; she and our asymptomatic (thank God) 10-year-old son had tested positive; our 14-year-old and I had tested negative, though that would soon change.
To the editor:
After seeing the images included in Becky Johnsonâs âPublic may finally get chance to speak at Waynesville meetingâ story and reading a Dec. 2 letter to the editor, itâs clear that the town board is only getting to hear voices that represent one side of the masking mandate (which shouldnât be a debate at all).
Perhaps if the statewide mandate were actually enforced in the meeting spaces, the science-believing, empathetic Haywood County residents would come out and share their thoughts, but as has been pointed out, weâre not willing to risk our health to conspiracy nuts who clearly donât care about anyone but themselves.