Hometown Spirit Award
2012 Update: Betsy Dassau and Joy Pike are the two co-award recipients for 2012! (View photo)
The Hometown Spirit Award is bestowed annually on a 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
Visit the archive of award recipients.
Contact the town clerk for additional information: sue.rowland@townofcary.org; (919) 469-4011.
