January 4, 2012

Nominations are being accepted for the Distinguished Public Service Award, which will be announced at the Cambridge Area Chamber’s Annual Dinner on Thursday, February 23, 2012.  Recipients of this award demonstrate outstanding personal contribution by way of active service, leadership, and ideas to chamber area civic or service organization(s), and/or cause(s). The selected candidate’s contribution will be for the past calendar year.

Nomination forms, which include an outline of the criteria used for consideration, are available at the Cambridge Area Chamber office, 607 Wheeling Avenue, Cambridge, or on-line at www.cambridgesupersite.com. 

Completed nomination forms must be received at the Chamber office by Friday, February 3, 2012.

The Cambridge Area Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Public Service Award 

1)     The Distinguished Public Service Award shall be an annual Cambridge Area Chamber of Commerce event, to coincide with the Chamber’s Annual Dinner. 

2)     The DPSA certificate and medal will be presented to a resident of the Cambridge area by the current chairman of the Chamber board of directors at the Annual Dinner. 

3)     The DPSA award winner shall be selected by a committee of recipients from the past five years; however, the past chairman of the Chamber board shall also serve on this committee to assure continuity of purpose. 

4)     Nominations for the DPSA shall be solicited from the Cambridge community at large via appropriate publicity. 

5)     The selection made by the committee shall be final.

 Criteria

1. The person selected must be a resident of the immediate  Guernsey County.

2. There shall be no restriction as to age, race, color, or creed.

3. The person selected from the list of nominees as the recipient of the DPSA must demonstrate outstanding personal contribution by way of active service, leadership, and ideas to any chamber area civic or service organization(s), and/or cause(s). The selected candidate’s contribution will be for the past calendar year.