2006 Preservation Awards Winners!
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Sweet, Sweet Orange Award: For outstanding restoration, preservation or enhancement of an historic residential home in the Old Towne Orange area that was built pre-1940. The awards recognizes a residence which enriches the historic quality of its neighborhood, contributes to neighborhood pride, and "sweetens" the quality of life in Old Towne.
WINNER: Robert and Ursula Imboden, West Palmyra
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The Pitcher Award: For outstanding landscape or garden enhancement of a historic site in Old Towne Orange. This award is named after Lawrence and Alice Pitcher who planted and maintained a small, but lush arboretum-like ranch at Almond and Cambridge. The Pitchers donated the property to the citizens of Orange to be used as a park. This award encourages both the preservation and establishment of trees, yards, and gardens which compliment and highlight the sense of history in Old Towne Orange.
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The Plaza City Award: For outstanding restoration, preservation or enhancement of a commercial, industrial or public use property in Old Towne Orange built pre-1940, which sustains life and vitality inherent in the original Orange township. The award recalls that the Orange Plaza was the first commercial and institutional hub in Orange.
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The OTPA Special Merit Award: Recognition to a person, group, program, process, project or building that has contributed significantly to preservation in Old Towne.
WINNER: Joanne Coontz
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The Spirit of Old Towne: This award is given to the person or group who has most contributed to the goals of the Old Towne Preservation Association which are to preserve and enhance the unique Old Towne Orange area through education, communication and community involvement. This award recognizes frequent and consistent preservation effort made in a spirit which cultivates neighborhood pride.
WINNER: This year's award was shared by Judie Owens and Jacky Wenglein
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The Good Neighbor Award: For a structure built in Old Towne which demonstrates outstanding compatibility and harmony with the existing historic structures it neighbors. This award encourages new development which is sensitive to the rhythm and pattern of the streetscape of the entire block and which blends into the neighborhood in architectural design, size and use of material.
WINNER: Sandy Quinn, North Shaffer
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Dale Rahn Volunteer of the Year Award: An award named after OTPA's first President is a special award, given in cases of extreme merit and not necessarily each year, for endless hours of volunteer work helping shape the preservation of our community.
WINNER: Bob Hitchcock