[Vision2020] Press release

[Stephanie Kalasz]

City of Moscow

Administration

 

 

Press Release

To:       Interested Media

From:   Gary J. Riedner, Moscow City Supervisor, 206 E. 3rd St., Moscow,
Idaho 83843, telephone: (208) 883-7006, Fax: (208) 883-7018, e-mail: 
griedner at moscow.com

cc:       Mayor, City Council, City Management Team

Date:    October 5, 2007

Re:       Outstanding Nominees Sought for Biennial Sheikh Community
Unity Award  

Mayor Nancy Chaney is asking for nominations for the Ismat Ara and Abdul
Mannan Sheikh Community Unity Award, a biennial award in honor of the
memory of two outstanding Moscow citizens, Ismat Ara Sheikh and her
husband, Abdul Mannan Sheikh, who demonstrated the meaning of community
unity in their personal lives and outreach to the Moscow community. This
was marked in particular with their open invitation to anyone for
community Thanksgiving meals they hosted for many years in Moscow. 

 

The Ismat Ara and Abdul Mannan Sheikh Community Unity Award is a
biennial civic award given to highlight and honor the achievements of a
Moscow citizen or group who have made outstanding commitments to
community unity and who have a history of significant effort on behalf
of diversity, inclusion and human rights in Moscow and the surrounding
community. The recipient(s) of the award will also have a strong history
of broad community service throughout Moscow and beyond.

 

The selection of the recipient of this award will be made by Mayor Nancy
Chaney from nominees forwarded by the Moscow Human Rights Commission.
Nominees are being solicited from the ranks of Moscow citizens and
screened by the Human Rights Commission. The intention is to reserve
this award for extraordinary contributions to diversity, inclusion,
community and service to all of Moscow.

 

Anyone wishing to nominate a person or group for this award should put
their nomination in writing to Moscow Human Rights Commission, c/o
Moscow City Clerk, with a short (up to one page) explanation of what
prompts this nomination. Nominations must be received at City Hall,
delivered to the City Clerk in person or by mail, PO Box 9203, Moscow,
no later than 4 P.M. Friday, October 26, 2007. The nominees forwarded to
the Mayor for final consideration shall meet the following criteria:

 

*        significant contributions to community unity and human
understanding in and around Moscow.

*        significant efforts on behalf of diversity, inclusion and human
rights in Moscow.

*        outstanding commitment to community, public service and the
City of Moscow.

 

The award includes a plaque and inclusion of the recipient's name on a
central plaque to be housed in a prominent place in City Hall as well as
a commemorative tree plaque on city property to honor the award
recipient and the Sheikhs.

 

The recipient of the Ismat Ara and Abdul Mannan Sheikh Community Unity
Award will be announced at ceremonies in the 1912 Center on Thursday,
November 29, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. 

 

 

 

 

 

To get more information about the lives of Ismat and Mannan Sheikh or
reactions to the creation of the award, the Sheikh children would be
very willing to talk with the press about this award: Mahmood Sheikh,
Boise, Idaho: Work: (208) 364-4027; Cell: (208) 850-0550; Zahrah Khan,
Littleton, Colorado: Work: (303) 691-9339; Home: (303) 347-1473;

Amtul Siddiqui, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Work: (604) 709-6617; Home: (604)
468-3827.

 

 

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