The Salvation Army of Northeast Florida welcomed guests to Aspire Church San Marco for its annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on Thursday, May 14.<\/p>\n
The evening marked a celebration of the people who drive purposeful and meaningful impact throughout the region, giving their time, talent and treasure to embody The Salvation\u2019s Army\u2019s mantra of \u201cdoing the most good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among the evening\u2019s honorees was A. Chester \u201cChip\u201d Skinner III, who received the Capt. Kirk Lewis Volunteer of the Year Award. Skinner has been involved with the organization for more than 25 years, serving on the advisory board and, recently, receiving the designation of Emeritus Board Member. He was instrumental in securing and overseeing the renovations of the new Area Command Headquarters on Monroe Street, among many other contributions.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is often the very first to volunteer, always ready to offer thoughtful counsel and invaluable advice. More importantly, he demonstrates his love for The Salvation Army not merely through words, but through consistent action,\u201d said Maj. Keath Biggers, Salvation Army area commander.<\/p>\n
Additional award recipients included:<\/p>\n
Individual Volunteer Award<\/p>\n
Top Teen Volunteers: Carlito and Julius Manalo<\/p>\n
Top Food Services (Kitchen) Volunteer: George Young<\/p>\n
Top Warehouse: April Vendl<\/p>\n
Top Social Services: Ester Paes<\/p>\n
Volunteer Group Awards<\/p>\n
Top School Volunteer Group: Jacksonville University Girls Basketball Team<\/p>\n
Top Corporate Volunteer Group: VyStar-Work Business Development<\/p>\n
Top Community Agency Volunteer Group: City Rescue Mission<\/p>\n
Volunteer Group Awards (by program):<\/p>\n
Angel Tree Program Volunteer Group Award: JEA Bike Brigade<\/p>\n
Can U Care Thanksgiving Volunteer Group Award: The Salvation Army Women\u2019s Auxiliary<\/p>\n
Top Bellringer Awards:<\/p>\n
Fleet Landing (raised $27,070.64)<\/p>\n
The Women\u2019s Auxiliary (raised $9,026.88)<\/p>\n
Mandarin Presbyterian (raised $6,343.36)<\/p>\n
All Souls (raised $5,294.36)<\/p>\n
The National Honor Society at First Coast High School (raised $3,220.93)<\/p>\n
A special recognition goes to Skip Willis, who single-handedly raised $5,566.35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Salvation Army of Northeast Florida welcomed guests to Aspire Church San Marco for its annual Volunteer Appreciation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-293601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}