Human Services Council of Mesa County, Colorado

Mary Beth Luedtke introduces this year's White Ribbon nominees: from left, Carol Viner (Colorado West Regional Mental Health);
Ucshi Hall (Colorado Discoverability); Greg Trainor (United Way of Mesa County); Duke Wortmann (St. Mary’s Hospital)
Cary Eidsness (The Tree House Center for Youth) Winner; Terri Pontente (Mesa County RSVP)
Ed Gardner (Museum of Western Colorado). Not shown: Doug Aden (Grand Valley Catholic Outreach);
George Rossman (Mesa County Partners); John Williams (Hilltop Community Resources);
Dr. Kenneth Lampert (Marillac Clinic)

Mary Beth Luedtke hands Cary Eidsness this year's beautiful ceramic bowl as his award; last year's winner, Sheri Sjerven, center
announced the winner.

Cary Eidsness wins 2010 White Ribbon Leadership Award

Cary has been on the Tree House Center for Youth board for 8 years and was instrumental in the initial development of the organization. Cary is a decent, generous, hard working member of this community and is a champion for youth prevention services.With this award, the Tree House Center was also awarded $1000 from the Human Services Council.

We want to thank everyone for making this year's Award Breakfast a huge success! Our Guest Speaker was Duke Wortman;
our leadership judges were :
Jeff Nichols, Mesa Developmental Services
Steve Acquafresca, County Commissioner
Shawna Greiger, Grand Jct. Chamber of Commerce
Rhonda Toland, City Market

Thanks to the generous sponsors for this event