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II Awards ceremony We reinitiated the concept of the volunteer award ceremony, for the fhst time since the cities 'obtained control of the management of community progrmnming. Over forty volunteers and . producers showed up on Apri123i'd for hors d'ouevres, . conversation, trophies and channel 15 clothing. Eleven trophies were handed out in recognition of outstanding efforts acrosS the past Year. A detailed list of the award recipients and photos were published in the monthly newsletter, and the program. was videotaped, along with some raucous, pre-ceremony, red carpet commentary. In addition to the trophies that were handed out, we also distributed the many The awards' channel 15 logo items, like sweatshirts and jackets, that had been earned by our volunteers across the previous year. Since this was the first time we'd done this in some time, the event was held at the Media Center. Future awards ceremonies will be held at some other venue. .' '." ~ . t~:\~:~: Award winDing volunteers Dave Washburn, Mike RoeDer, and Dan Peitso. ~., ),-..:" , ~ ~ ~ THE PRODUCTION VAN,. ~ ''-._, 'v,~ , ___...... ...'~.., -:.....;, +_ , ~. . . The production van is one of the most important tools we have. According to our most ~t . . survey of cable subscn"bers, high school sporting event Coverage was the most frequently cited reason for watching the community channel Kenton Kipp, our Van Coordinator and his asSistant Matt Waldron, put up some.!eany good numbers in 2002. The number ofvan shoots, volunteers and hours that folks cont;nbuted all increased. One area that was particularly impressive was the number of hours . volunteered. In 2002 people spent 968 hours assisting in the production of community programming. In 2002 they spent 2,513 hours doing so. That is close to triple! Setting up for a shoot at the National Kenton and Matt do a great job of worldng with the Sports Center volunteers. In the words of one volunteer at last year's 10