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Community Leaders from Across the Keweenaw were honored last night in downtown Houghton at the Annual Spark plug awards dinner. The event was hosted by the Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce in partnership with MTEC SmartZone, Keweenaw Economic Development Alliance (KEDA), and Keweenaw Young Professionals, and Featured Bud Cole as the Keynote Speaker. Bud is the President of Fender Musical Instrument’s Asian headquarters and made the trip from his home in Tokyo to deliver an empowering speech to local professionals.
Among those awarded were Lt. Nick Roberts of the Houghton Police Department. The Lt. was commended for his organizational skills in developing several community involvement programs such as Treat Street, the Pigs N Heat fundraising hockey game, and this years new event the Houghton Victorian Christmas.
Other pillars of the community receiving awards included Calumet Electronics, KC Bonkers, Orbion Space Technology, Anders Hill, and the Copper Harbor Trails Club accepting the project of the year award for its fifteen years of efforts that lead to the opening of a new section of the Kweenaw Point Trail.
In his closing speech Cole spoke of the importance of benevolence and giving back to the community. A man of his word, he then made a large personal donation to the Copper Country Humane Society, and another to the Omega House as he expressed the significant role each plays in the community. Each charity received a check for $25,000.
