Volunteers Helping NCPR

Without the generous help of North Country Public Radio volunteers, we would be lost. An on-air fundraiser can require upwards of 150 individuals to answer phones. NCPR volunteers form their own special community; some return every year to help in fund drives. Some are familiar to all our listeners as music hosts and announcers. Some serve as station sentinels helping to ensure that we can be heard throughout the region. Others help arrange special events in their communities. Some climb mountains for us when a transmitter has gone on the blink. Others are our "Baker Street Irregulars," feeding us news and information from around the listening area.

Approximately 200 loyal volunteers donated more than 3100 hours of their time to NCPR in 2009. When we say that we couldn't do this without our volunteers, we really mean it.

2009 Volunteers of the Year

Special service warrants special recognition. Each year we select one or more Volunteers of the Year to honor the work that they have done to support the stations. Five 2009 awards were given Sunday, December 6th. The recipients Peggy Rood and Hank Hofmann for their work during pledge drives, Rachel Montpelier for her work on the community calendar, and Nancie Battaglia and George Arnold for their help with Stories, Food, Life.

Recipients from previous years include:

2009	Margot Ernst, John Ernst, Rhonda Butler Brunner, Michael Ellis, Dick Fay, Nancy Keet, Carol Pearsall, Meredith Prime, Harriet Singer, Tricia Winterer, Tony Zazula, Barbara Glaser, Stephen Hopkins, Linda Cohen and Sarah Cohen for their work as volunteers on the Adirondack Steering Committee.
2007	Maxine Quigg, Rosanne Weir, Kate Couch, Jayn Graves, Barbara Wheeler, and Karen Freeman for North Country Reads; Hilary Oak and Beth Robinson for Open Studio
2006	Bob Andrews for A Year on the Farm
2005	no award given
2004	Lieutenant Colonel Eric Olsen Olsen's audio diary from Iraq
2003	Chris Robinson and Whitney McDermut
2002	NCPR Reading Service Volunteers
2001	Karen St. Hilaire, Paul Siskind, Betsey Kepes, Curt Stiles
2000	Varick Chittenden, Millie Whalen, Tom Warrington
1999	Jim Gould, Mike Alzo
1998	Suzanne Lebeda, Kathy Olsen
1997	Joe Liotta
1996	Alan Wioskowski
1995	Joann Elberty
1994	Willow Island Restaurant, A. Sirotkin, C. Hayes, prop., Guy Berard
1993	Jill Breit, Chris Brescia, Paul Connett, Kathy Millett
1992	David Carson, Fred Cleveland, Paul Haggett
1991	Carol Grzywinski, Carter Fish, Curt Stager
1990	Tellie and David Bray
1989	Wally Siebel

Some gifts are better than money. If you have some time to offer North Country Public Radio, please e-mail June Peoples june@ncpr.org, or call 1-877-388-6277.

2008 Volunteer of the Year Award recipients, the Adirondack Steering Committee

2007 Volunteer of the Year Award recipients (l to r) Roseanne Weir, Karen Freeman and Maxine Quigg of the North Country Reads project.

2007 Volunteer of the Year Award recipients Hilary Oak (left) and Beth Robinson (right) flank Open Studio host Todd Moe.

2006 Volunteer of the Year Award recipient Bob Andrews.