Family, friends, Steward village officials and 2019 Outstanding Citizens Scout Troop No. 64 gathered Friday night, July 31, to congratulate and celebrate Steward’s 2020 Outstanding Citizen, Gavin Altepeter.
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STEWARD — Family, friends, Steward village officials and 2019 Outstanding Citizens Scout Troop No. 64 gathered Friday night, July 31, to congratulate and celebrate Steward’s 2020 Outstanding Citizen, Gavin Altepeter.
He is the son of Adrienne and Tom Altepeter. Altepeter demonstrated that he had self-initiative to make a difference in his community by not only seeing trash along a nearby path, but picking it up — all two and a half garbage bags worth.
Not able to attend classes in school because of COVID-19, he checked with his mother to see if he could pick up the trash as a PE class credit. He is the sixth person to receive the Outstanding Citizen Award. Steward Village President Hugh McKiski presented him with an engraved brick that will be added to Celebration Garden. When McKiski spoke, he noted that this is Steward’s sesquicentennial year.
On behalf of the community, Les Bonnell, village trustee, presented Altepeter with a gift card.
Bonnell challenged those present as he paraphrased a former President of the United States, “Ask not what your village can do for you. Ask what you can do for your village.”
