Edmunds Accessibility Effort Wins Award

The many local volunteers working to make Edmunds accessible were among those recognized with an award last night! Here's the video from CCTV... start watching just shy of 50% into the piece. A clip from the newspaper's account too...

Champions of diversity in education honored in Burlington
By Molly Walsh
Burlington Free Press
June 4, 2009

When Somali refugee children needed financial assistance to attend summer camp, Nancy Zahniser stepped up to establish a scholarship fund. When Patrick Brown arrived in Burlington 26 years ago, he began a long career of community service designed to reduce racism and increase equal opportunity.

Both received standing ovations and lifetime achievement awards at the first Champions of Diversity and Equity program at Burlington City Hall on Wednesday. More than 100 people attended the awards ceremony designed to honor Vermonters who have worked to affirm social and cultural diversity in Burlington public schools, build bridges across differences in the community and create a culture for leadership and social change...

The awards were sponsored jointly by city government, the school district and the Social Equity Investment Project...

Other champions award recipients included student Nicole Murphy of Burlington High School; Joy Kipp, an art teacher at Hunt Middle School; Michael Wood-Lewis, a Burlington parent who is leading a drive to make Edmunds Middle School handicapped accessible; Denise Dunbar, coordinator of Reading to End Racism of Chittenden County; and Nimo Girreh, a Burlington school district bilingual/bicultural home school liaison...