Last week, a packed room of Coronado residents, business owners, and community leaders gathered at Feast & Fareway for the Chamber\u2019s Annual Celebrate Coronado Dinner and Awards. The evening recognized Chamber member milestones and honored some of Coronado\u2019s finest first responders and City employees, as well as the recipient of the Lewis R. Hardy Memorial Award.<\/p>\n
Each honoree was recognized for excellence, tenacity, intelligence, leadership, and a commitment to leading by example.<\/p>\n
A heartfelt congratulations to each of this year\u2019s award recipients:<\/p>\n
Kelli Maples \u2014 City Manager\u2019s Employee of the Year<\/p>\n
Police Service Officer Jose Sandoval \u2014 Police Department Employee of the Year<\/p>\n
Corporal Kevin Engelke \u2014 Police Department Employee of the Year<\/p>\n
Coby James \u2014 Lifeguard Employee of the Year<\/p>\n
Trent Cresap \u2014 Firefighter Employee of the Year<\/p>\n
Bill Sandke \u2014 2025\u20132026 Lewis R. Hardy Memorial Award recipient<\/p>\n
Rena Clancy, Kerri Dowling, and Cathy Brown deserve an award of their own for the tremendous work and dedication they bring to the Coronado Chamber of Commerce. Their commitment to supporting our local businesses, City, and community is evident in all they do.<\/p>\n
I was delighted to be there to celebrate these outstanding individuals and especially proud to have the opportunity to recognize the Lewis R. Hardy Memorial Award recipients, past and present. Seeing community leaders Ruth Ann Fisher, Cathy Brown, Dave Landon, Mike Woiwode, Bill Gise, Suzanne Popp, Doug St. Denis, and Dean Eckenroth Jr. welcome Bill Sandke into this prestigious group of award recipients was a particularly special moment.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to Bill and to all of this year\u2019s honorees – and thank you to the Coronado Chamber of Commerce for another wonderful evening celebrating the people who make our community so special!<\/p>\n
Bravo!<\/p>\n
VOL. 116, NO. 39 – Sept. 30, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, a packed room of Coronado residents, business owners, and community leaders gathered at Feast & Fareway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-486938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}