{"id":689,"date":"2024-08-22T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/?p=689"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:27:40","slug":"cgmga-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"CGMGA Award Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CGMGA Awards Recipients from 1996 to now. Thank you to all our volunteers for all the wonderful work you do! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>** Updated December 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Master Gardener of the Year* <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1996: Fred and Patricia Paige*&nbsp; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1997: Anna Nolen *&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1998: Shirley Chrisman \/ Elizabeth Daniel *<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1999: Roxanne Sponable*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2000: Scott Fitch*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2001: Jean Hadley*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002: Angela Bridges*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003: Colleen Garrabrandt*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2004: Patricia Paige<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2005: Sandi Rousseau<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006: John Ihle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007: Dede Garcia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008: Anne Saxby \/ Rita Saling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009: Cindy Collins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010: Kathy McGregor \/ Jennifer Harty<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: Jordan Kim<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012: Eric and Shari Bosler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013: Nancy Slagle \/ Mary Parrott 2014:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John Stevens<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Audrey Schneider<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: Kathy Lien and Laurel DeTar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: Bud Lacey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: Sandi Rousseau<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: Eric Bosler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: Renee Taylor \/ Christie Bradley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021: Joanne Willis \/ Bill Winfield<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022: Sandy Montag<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023: Anne Gehrig<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: Tracy Willett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: Margo Damaier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025: Jennifer Harty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Behind the Scenes\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2002: Fred and Patricia Paige<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2005: Scott Fitch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007: Glenda Ryan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009: Pam Crider<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: Alan Yenne \/ Laurel DeTar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012: Dennis Carlson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013: Christie Bradley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: Crystal Pickerd \/ Leanne Hogie<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Ellen Penswick<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: Becki Montgomery\/Helga Reese<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: Sandy Montag<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: LJ Johnson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: Margo Dameier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: Anne Saxby \/ Shari Bosler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021: CJ Flick \/ Camille Jones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022: Paul Matalucci\/Linda Kaufman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023: Joanne Willis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: Helga Reese<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025: Carol Brown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Golden Trowel Recipients<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2009: Coleen Garrabrandt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: Scott Fitch \/ John Ihle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012: Dede Garcia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: Dennis Carlson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Kathy Lien<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: Sylvianne Whiting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: Tracy Willett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: Joanne Willis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: Kelly Sullivan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022: Kelsey Soltysiak<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023: Mike Naramore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: Kat Sullivan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025: Tim Wear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Impact Award \/ Projects Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021:&nbsp; Pat Morrison, Ellen Penswick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022:&nbsp; Sandi Rousseau<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2023:&nbsp; Tracy Willett<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: Norma Benson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025: Sandy Montag, Jan Kelley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Community Outreach Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021:&nbsp; Elaine Johnson, Anny VanNatta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022:&nbsp; Dennis Carlson, Leanne Hogie, Kathy McGregor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2023:&nbsp; No recipient<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: Wyeast Vista Apt. 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Thank you to all our volunteers for all the wonderful work you do! ** Updated December 2024 Master Gardener of the Year* \u2018Behind the Scenes\u2019 Golden Trowel Recipients Impact Award \/ Projects Award 2021:&nbsp; Pat Morrison, Ellen Penswick 2022:&nbsp; Sandi Rousseau Community Outreach Award 2021:&nbsp; Elaine Johnson, Anny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get-to-know-cgmga"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralgorgemga.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}