Cordell Chamber of Commerce presents annual awards at banquet

  • RIGHT: The cover of the program for the banquet BELOW: L-R Community Service award recipient Flora Walters, past Chamber president and co-emcee of the evening Judge Christopher Kelly, Community Award recipient representatives Gayle Wilcox and Cricket Moore, Chamber director and co-emcee David Thain, Business of the Year recipient representative Dr. Bob Abernathy, and Cordell Beacon and Great Plains Bank Person of the Year Alan Newman. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
    RIGHT: The cover of the program for the banquet BELOW: L-R Community Service award recipient Flora Walters, past Chamber president and co-emcee of the evening Judge Christopher Kelly, Community Award recipient representatives Gayle Wilcox and Cricket Moore, Chamber director and co-emcee David Thain, Business of the Year recipient representative Dr. Bob Abernathy, and Cordell Beacon and Great Plains Bank Person of the Year Alan Newman. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS

Slice 183 hosted the annual Cordell Chamber of Commerce awards banquet on Monday, April 12th. Winners, Chamber board members, and their guests were treated to a delicous meal of pizza, salad and dessert.

Winners included the Business of the Year, Cordell Memorial Hospital, for their efforts in treating and healing patients during the pandemic; the Community Service award recipient Flora Walters of the Cordell Beacon for her writing highlighting the youth of Cordell; the Community Improvement award honoree Cordell Christian Home for their role in continually protecting their residents from COVID-19 as well as comforting them during their isolation with creative ideas for socialization; and the Person of the Year, Alan Newman, who helped put food on the table of anyone in Washita county who was in need during a tough year.