Kansas PRIDE awards earned by Alton PRIDE

Community Achievement: 1986, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997

(Community Achievement awards were changed to Community of Excellence awards.)

Community of Excellence (COE): 2000-2001; 2002-2003; 2004-2005; 2006-2007; 2008-2009; 2013-

2015; 2016-2018; 2019-2021; 2022-2024; 2025-2027

COEs are recognized in Kansas PRIDE’s Annual Review and on their Website, are eligible to apply for

Partners in PRIDE (PIP) grants, Project Excellence and Community Partner/Rising Star awards, plus

receive a trophy or plaque and a bar to add to their highway signs. Kansas PRIDE letters of

recommendation to submit with local grant applications are also available to COEs (upon request).

Eligibility requirements to maintain a COE status and qualify for perks throughout the current three-year

award period include submitting quarterly activity reports

Star Awards

(for special projects): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007

(Award signs/plaques/trophies listed above always came with a monetary prize. The state PRIDE

program changed their awards program after 2009 and did not give out community awards until 2012.

After that time, no monetary prizes accompanied the signs/plaques/trophies that were received.)

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Kansas PRIDE Project Excellence Capital Awards

Capital Awards may be applied for in the following categories:

Built - Cultural - Financial - Human - Natural - Political - Social

Alton PRIDE’s Project Excellence Capital Awards:

Built:

(1 undated built capital award in trophy case)

2012 (skateboard park)

2017 (bluffs cross)

2018 (park improvements)

2019 (Community Room Fixer-Upper)

2024 (Community Room Floor Project)

Cultural:

2022 (1970 Centennial Garden Revitalization)

2023 (Summer Jubilee)

2024 (Hay Bail Banners)

Human:

2022 (Kansas Food Bank: Alton Distribution Site)

Natural:

2019 (Retire our Tires)

Social:

2014 (annual Choc. Festival)

2020 (Christmas in Alton – Phase 1)

2021 (Christmas in Alton – Phase 2)

2022 (Kansas Food Bank Program in Alton)

2023 (Ladies Night Out)

Community Partner/Rising Star Awards

2013 – Dorothy Mitchell 2020 – Jo Peterson

2015 – Deanna Roach 2021 – Bull City Community Foundation

2016 – Homer Smuck 2022 –Tony Dibble

2017 – Carolyn Williams

2018 – Lillian Conway

2019 – Robbin Dibble

2022 - Tony Dibble

2023 - Ginger Howell

2024 Pastor Dorothy Ellsworth