the vice president of student council rachel hobbs and the president of the freshman class sam lindsay good evening my name is rachel hobbs and welcome to the character council award ceremony and we're going to go ahead and get started with the first award the first award is given to see who was nominated by stephanie ali exemplifies the ideals of respect responsibility and honesty in many ways siani attends various lunchtime friendship groups as a role model student in each group she is positive  as a fabulous job working with other students who have special needs she is engaging and always friendly siani serves as a sixth grade student a student ambassador and takes her role very seriously she was also able to introduce a speaker a day without using notes it was obvious that she practiced well in advance very well and takes pride in her school work and she is always friendly to teachers she is respectful to both adults in her life as well as peers siani has a kindness that is a parent she makes it a point to stop and say hello she is highly recommended for the character counts award completion of education are the reason that many working parents have more family time with their children at night and less homework worries this miracle is performed by the high school students who charmed tired primary children  primary age children these high school students have undoubtedly improved the attitudes of struggling children with their cheerful one on one encourage them and it is easy to see the positive impact that they have on their younger counterparts lives they have consistently gone above and beyond what is needed to establish a personal bond with p v children they deserve the recognition for a job continuously well done and the next character counts award is given to mrs christina hard as she was nominated by alexandra wilson as written by her student alexandra mrs hart is the best teacher i have ever had i was lucky to have had her for kindergarten and second grade she taught me supported me loves me and continues to do so and she has become my friend she shows how much she cares for us students on a daily basis she encourages us even if we do not think that we can she makes us feel important she listens to us and she always makes her lessons interesting sometimes is with humor sometimes facts and sometimes it's with doing cartwheels mrs harper has a lot of energy she's always cheerful and creates an environment where her students want to learn she encourages her students to be the best that they can she teaches her students to be respectful of one another to be responsible and to always be honest she always goes above and beyond her students and is very well deserving of and our next award is given to connor daily nominated by james and hardy as written by james and hardy i've known conor for several years as former pastor i have seen him grown into a fine young man who exempl qualities of respect responsibility and honesty these qualities have seen and i have seen in him the whole time i have known him he shows integrity and leadership as a student athlete and young christian man he comes from a family that is dedicated to being of high character and integrity having exposure to a vast number of young men and women i believe the connor is very deserving of this award i believe that he would be a great base for character counts nobody wants both of us children just in a day and friends would have the opportunity to partake in a sport where not just some of the things that make mr killen great but what truly sets him apart from the average individual puzzle of wonderful support stuff that supports struggling students on a daily basis as a young teacher who is always striving to find new and interesting ways to keep her students engaged in the learning process she always has in the craft game making the difficult curriculum easy to understand receive the character counts award first she is one of the most kind and most caring people i have ever had the good fortune to meet she also has great perseverance and bravery in the face of adversity she was awarded the wish  make a wish foundation last year of all the potential things to choose from she decided she wanted to use her wish to help find the technology to restore my health her compassion and quality of character are remarkable and rare if everyone had even would still like to read a little bit about her mother mixed with a lot from herself morally athletically and academically she stands up for what she believes in despite what some of her peers do more than has the ability to rise above everything else and see things for what they are her level headed pragmatic approach to everything in her life makes her a force to be reckoned with has a very hard working student you never makes any excuses nor does he let anything get in the way of him achieving his goals you know is above and beyond in everything that he does shawn volunteers to help out anyone that again he gets a positive attitude towards is one of the kindest and most considerate members of the class of two thousand and seventeen it's certainly great everyone the positive board as he helps them in class hold the door for them or just pass them and all these teachers wrote that after talking with under you remember why it was you want to go into teaching in the first place evening i looked into this mr bryan shill executive director of the peter township chamber of commerce good evening ladies and gentlemen tonight we are going to present the first annual carol foley memorial character counts award at this time i'd like to ask dr foley to come join me up front here many of you are aware that carol served this community for over a quarter of a century in her role as the peters township chamber executive director before passing away last summer she was well known and well loved and she was a true pillar of the community so just makes perfect sense to remember her legacy choosing recipients who dedicate themselves not only to the chamber but to this entire community to recipients have distinguished themselves by doing just that they spent a significant amount of time on behalf of the chamber to help make peter's township a great place to live work and play there both current board members of the chamber spending countless hours of outstanding service to the community and devoted duty to the chamber of commerce so it gives me great pleasure to present the first annual carol foley memorial character counts award to linda webster and linda is the owner of minuteman press she was a board member is currently a board member she's been on the board for eight years she's first served as secretary then a vice president then ten years as president and now she's coming back around she's secretary again so in her own words the chamber helps bring community businesses together so they can get to know each other and do business with each other it is our responsibility as business owners t the standards set by carroll fully as she served as director for twenty five years it is up to us to continue carol's vision to serve others with respect demonstrate responsibility to our family and our community and to conduct our businesses with honesty and integrity greg is the owner of millers ace hardware and is currently treasurer of the board of directors he is also chairman of this year's twenty fourth annual chamber golf outing which is scheduled coming up on june tenth he is also a junior achievement volunteer here right at the middle school and he is a member of the j leadership council now both linda and gregg supported the peters plan comprehensive planning forums they are members of my web development team we're hoping to go live within the next month or so and you can always see them in the  office i was going to show some photos but i was told maybe i shouldn't there are hanging decorations for of the holidays you might even see photos on the internet when i post them of them on their hands and knees cleaning the office i'm christian less than assistant principal at the high school and i just wanted to let you know a little bit about rachel and sam our two mc said night these are two students that are absolutely phenomenal to work with they're not only academic superstars they're also just there whenever you need them they are leaders that serve their classes they serve the student council they are working they're part of a group of students that is working to change the culture at the high school and to really drive some really great initiatives and really see that that students take over the leadership of the high school in terms of what they want to see and take ownership of what's going on up there and so i'm really proud to work with a bob reminds me that there are a couple things that i need to go over here in regards to character counts for your information one of them is one of their peers xena's you angus also starting the easies running the logo competition so one of the community things that that we're doing right now is we're having a competition for the percentage of character counts logo that hasn't been changed in fifteen years is that what it is so it's time to dust it off and  get a new logo so we're doing a competition across the school district as well as open to the community it is online there's an e mail blast went out about it you can also check your school's website for information  so that's one thing another thing to look forward to is in the fall we're going to have a kickoff event for character counts and that's being planned as we speak and so we look to have a really good event to kick off kick off a new school  year and get things going for character council again a third thing is that we do have this award ceremony every fall and every spring so please look for the e mail blast to go out and for the nominations that are out there and please continue to nominate people that are making a difference in this community because for those a just showed up tonight those are received awards congratulations again you are driving the character of this community and we are so thankful for it so thank you everyone there are refreshments in the back i hope you'll join me afterwards otherwise i hope you have a great evening