Congratulations to Keith Bliss, the 2011 Hometown Spirit Award Recipient!

Read more about Bliss and all the 2011 nominees. Visit the archive of award recipients.

The Hometown Spirit Award is bestowed annually on one Cary resident who enhances the quality of life in Cary by preserving, promoting and carrying out positive and quantifiable traditional small-town community values and traits as embodied in the following criteria:

• Helps out neighbors and fellow Cary residents
• Demonstrates hospitality
• Promotes and preserves traditional American past-times
• Shows a concern for preservation and works to preserve traditions and the small-town atmosphere in the community
• Promotes entrepreneurship through supporting locally-owned business
• Promotes a sense of community in their neighborhood and all of Cary
• Demonstrates patriotism through promotion and preservation of the country's symbols and dedication to the U.S. military, past and present
• Serves the community through business

    Criteria and Eligibility

    Process

Information about the 2012 award program will be available in the summer of 2012.  Contact the Town Clerk with questions at sue.rowland@townofcary.org or (919) 469-4011.