Call For Nominations: Award Helps Woodworkers Who Speak Up For Others Stand Out From The Crowd

Furniture World Magazine

If you know a woodworker who stands up for others, then now’s the time to help them stand out from the crowd! Your nomination could transform one unsung hero into a recognized WHO Award (Woodworkers Helping Others) winner. The WHO Award, which was developed several years ago by industrial event organizer Trade Shows, Inc., honors and encourages outreach by members of the woodworking community. During their next Midwest Industrial Woodworking ExpoSM—a record-breaking show which returns to the Grand Center this November 8th and 9th—Trade Shows will honor one deserving professional or organization with this year’s sought-after Midwest WHO Award. Consistent with the future-focused industrial event’s ‘Experience Tomorrow Today’ theme, the award will spotlight exceptional outreach efforts that give back to the community today, and make the community better for tomorrow. In honor of the award recipient, the event organizer will donate $2,000 to the winner’s charity of choice—a process that has generated more than $15,000 for deserving organizations in the last two years alone. In preparation for this great show and distinguished honor, Trade Shows has begun an extensive search for qualified award candidates. Professionals in and associated with the woodworking industry are invited to submit nominations for the Midwest WHO Award, which will be accepted through October 3rd, 2001. "With all the charitable campaigns, educational programs, and other forward-thinking partnerships taking place in the woodworking community," Trade Shows’ executive Tricia Eidson admits, "we have to rely on tips from our industry professional community. Without them we never would have found past recipients like Fessenden Hall’s Ed Birdsall, whose extraordinary involvement with the Southern New Jersey Ronald McDonald House was revealed to us in a nomination letter from a grateful colleague." Each Midwest WHO Award nomination letter should include a detailed overview, no longer than one typed page, of the nominated individual or organization’s outreach efforts and humanitarian contributions. For a nomination form or more information about this unique award, visit www.midwestwoodshow.com or call Patrick Cloninger at (800) 315-0648, extension 17. Submissions received by the October 3rd deadline will be judged by a three-person panel of prominent industry leaders. This expert team includes Carol Kooistra, GRAFMA’s executive director, Duane Griffiths, Stiles Machinery’s Manager of Educational Services, and Steve Ehle, Wood Digest’s Editor-in-Chief. For more details about the November 8th and 9th Midwest Industrial Woodworking ExpoSM—or any other regional woodworking and plastics events produced by Trade Shows—please e-mail tsi@tsishows.com or visit www.midwestwoodshow.com. Trade Shows, Inc. may also be contacted by mail at P.O. Box 2000, Claremont, NC 28610-2000, by phone at (828) 459-9894, or by fax at (828) 459-1312.