The 2020 Awards Ceremony has been a tradition for many years where we as an agency take time to celebrate the people we serve and their achievements. Despite the pandemic making it look different, we are determined to keep this tradition alive. We have cancelled the Marriott event due to continued high community spread of COVID-19. Instead, a management team member will record the reason why the person won the award. We are then going to make available to the staff and the family of the winner a chance to video record how proud they are of that person for their achievement.

This is the part where it gets fun and we could use your help. On October 2^nd, we are going to do a “Congratulations” parade where staff can get in their cars and drive by with signs in their windows. Each winner will receive their award by Casey with balloons and flowers, which will all be recorded. Afterwards, everything will be put together in a video to be viewed by staff and made into a disc for each of the award winners. We will be doing this in all areas that are winners. If interested in joining the parade, please contact Jolene Sorenson at jolene.sorenson@sui.org or call extension 328.

While this may look different this year, we are excited to try a different format and maybe we will take away a new tradition.