11/25/2025
It is time to nominate the Volunteer of the Year - 2025
As you are all aware, the DVDP does not run with paid county staff.
From a Board of Directors and Committees viewpoint, we see a lot of people helping in a LOT of different ways that the average park patron has no idea happens behind the scenes. Photography for write ups in the Comstock Chronicle, carefully crafted letters to government entities, grant writing, artistic creation of pieces of dog art to help make the dog park a little nicer, and even just being a body at an Advisory Board meeting to show support for an initiative to try and reduce the water bill for the Dog Park – they all take the one thing most of us don’t have a lot of these days – which is time. But this last year, patrons from the DVDP showed up for the park when they were really needed.
There is a ton of help that we don't see, that is just as valuable and often goes without thanks. So we want to hear from the folks who are at the park all the time. Who are those nameless people who pick up broken bottles every day and make our park safer for the dogs? Who fills those water jugs every morning and makes sure the jugs are clean? Who is doing daily p**p patrol? Who has flown under our radar?
This is your chance to be heard and call those special people out who really treat this park like their own and every single day leave it in better shape than when they came in.
So here is how this will work. To be considered, we need EITHER a TEXT MESSAGE via cell phone or an email that tells us who you nominate (and it is ok to nominate yourself) and why. Full name would be extremely helpful, as we all know there may be multiple people named Mary. If you don’t know their name, but know their dog’s name, well, that is par for the course for our Dog Park. Tell us the dog’s name and a brief description and we’ll do out best to identify your nomination.
Nominations will be taken from now through Monday, December 8th.
The Board of Directors will then vote from the top 3 nominated to determine the single Volunteer of the Year.
The Volunteer of the Year – 2025 will be announced at the Holiday Tree Lighting on December 14th and the Board of Directors will ask the top three nominations to attend the Holiday Tree Lighting, if they can.
Email for Nominations: [email protected]
Cell for Text Message: 775-741-4118
