Plenty of Excellence in Gilbert

The AZ Republic printed this article about the Excellence Awards tomorrow night:

Saturday night will mark 10 years of Gilbert honoring residents and business leaders at the annual Community of Excellence Awards.

"What makes it unique is that it's a community program, so instead of all of us doing our own award, we bring the community together to celebrate," said Kathy Langdon, president of the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce, one of the event's sponsors.

In this milestone year, the awards ceremony will include a Taste of Gilbert - an opportunity for the public to sample food from a variety of local restaurants. Gilbert Fine Arts Association will provide live entertainment.

The awards reception will be at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Trilogy at Power Ranch ballroom, 4369 E. Village Parkway. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $25 each or $230 for a table of 10 by contacting the Chamber of Commerce at (480) 892-0056.

"It's a little more formal for Gilbert than most events, but there's lots of mixing and mingling,"
Langdon said.

Maybe we'll see you there; some of us from our office will be attending:

Morrison Ranch, one of the neighborhoods built on the Morrison family farmland, will be given the Beautification Award. The neighborhood's white fences, individual mailboxes and porches were part of the developers' goal to keep Gilbert's agricultural heritage alive in the community.

On a personal note, I returned from out of town yesterday, and it almost seems like I should have stayed away a little longer. The accident (which The Mister posted on yesterday) that took out the power to the office has really evolved into a mess. I thought I was really dependent on my computer, and I am; but without electricity, the scanner doesn't work, and the computer eventually runs out of juice, so there's no paperless office happening; the wallpaper guys can't finish the job in the dark; even paying bills is in the too-hard-to-do box without a working printer. So all these dangling jobs will have to dangle on... Darn; I guess I shall be forced to spend my time working on wedding plans.