Save The Bay names environmental award winners

SAVE THE BAY has named its 2016 environmental award recipients.
SAVE THE BAY has named its 2016 environmental award recipients.

PROVIDENCE – Save The Bay said its 2016 annual environmental award winners will be honored at the organization’s annual meeting on June 9.
The annual meeting begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by Save The Bay’s Taste of The Bay fundraising event at 7-9 p.m. at the Bay Center, 100 Save The Bay Drive in Providence.
This year’s award recipients are:

  • Lifetime Achievement Award – Eugenia Marks, of Providence, former senior director of policy at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island.
  • Environmental Achievement Award – Julie Sharpe, of Saunderstown, president of the Narrow River Land Trust in Saunderstown.
  • Environmental Achievement Award (posthumous) – Michael Brown, of Jamestown, founder and former president of Packaging2.0.
  • Alison Walsh Award for Outstanding Environmental Advocacy – Bob Aldrich, of Bristol, president of Save Bristol Harbor.
  • Volunteer of the Year – Fran Pijar, of Mystic, Conn., retired aerospace engineer and recording secretary for Clean Up Sound and Harbors Inc.
  • Bay Educator of the Year – Lynn Dambruch, of Narragansett, director of elementary education for Warwick.
  • Bay Student of the Year – Joel Blanco, of Providence, seventh-grader at Gilbert Stuart Middle School.

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