Nominations for the 2010 Seattle-King County First Citizen Award will be accepted by the selection committee until August 15. The award, presented annually since 1939, celebrates community leadership, volunteerism and public service.
This year’s recipient, Seattle Symphony Music Director Gerard Schwarz, will be honored at a civic banquet on October 7. (For tickets: www.seattlefirstcitizen.org.) In 2010, the First Citizen banquet will revert to a springtime event, necessitating the current “call for nominations.”
Letters of nomination, together with any supporting material, should be sent to First Citizen Selection Committee, c/o Seattle King County Realtors, 12410 SE 32nd St., Suite 100, Bellevue, WA 98005 or submitted by e-mail to Val Towler, vtowler@nwrealtor.com.
Nominees should be current or former residents of King County whose leadership, benevolence or inspiration has helped enhanced the quality of life for the area’s residents.
The First Citizen Award, believed to be the region’s most senior citation of its kind, has no fund-raising expectation, but instead is designed solely as a not-for-profit celebration of community involvement.
Since inception, the honorees have included individuals, couples and families, plus one organization whose community involvement has benefited humanitarian organizations, charitable and educational institutions, arts groups and various philanthropic causes that have enriched the community.
The Seattle King County Realtors is a nonprofit professional trade association whose goals include promoting business practices that reflect a strict code of ethics and supporting policies that preserve and expand real property rights and housing affordability. Based in Bellevue, SKCR is one of 1,800 local associations of the National Association of Realtors.
