The 2019 Bellamy Community Awards will be presented to Tim Birnie, CEO of Birnie Bus Service, Inc.; Alice Dearo, former executive director of the United Way of Rome and Western Oneida County, who passed away late last year and will be honored posthumously; and Rick Weltz of the WKAL 1450 radio station. The awards honor […]
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The 2019 Bellamy Community Awards will be presented to Tim Birnie, CEO of Birnie Bus Service, Inc.; Alice Dearo, former executive director of the United Way of Rome and Western Oneida County, who passed away late last year and will be honored posthumously; and Rick Weltz of the WKAL 1450 radio station. The awards honor outstanding individuals who exemplify the ideals of Francis Bellamy.
The organization said that it will bestow the three awards at its 7th Annual Francis J. Bellamy Community Awards Breakfast to be held at 8 a.m. on Aug. 28, at Delta Lake Inn. The event falls on the 88th anniversary of Bellamy’s death. Congressman Anthony Brindisi (D)(NY-22) is the event keynote speaker and Lenny Giardino of Taberg will be emcee.
NBT Bank is the key sponsor of the breakfast for the seventh straight year.
The Francis J. Bellamy Community Awards Committee was founded in 2013. The inaugural Bellamy Community Award winners were Charles Sprock and Ava Dorfman in 2013. Father Philip Hearn and Dennis Surace were the 2014 recipients. In 2015, Community Awards were given to Charles (Chip) Roe (posthumously), Common Council President John Mazzaferro, and former Rome Mayor Carl Eilenberg, who received a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2016, Bellamy Community Awards were given to Rev. Paul Angelicchio, Fred Normand, and Monsignor Francis Culkin (posthumously). Last year, the committee bestowed Bellamy Community Awards to Rome Fire Chief Ron Brement and Rome Elks Lodge #96, and its first Bellamy Career Achievement Award to local Winter Olympian Erin Hamlin.
Tickets for the breakfast are $25 per person and are available at the Rome Area Chamber of Commerce and other organizations. For more information, contact: bellamyawards2019@gmail.com.