[Vision2020] Biennial Ismat & Mannan Sheikh Award

[Stephanie Kalasz]

Press Release - Biennial Ismat & Mannan Sheikh Community Unity Award 

 

To:      Interested Media

From:  Gary J. Riedner, City Supervisor

            206 E. 3rd St., Moscow, Idaho 83843

Telephone: (208) 883-7006; Fax: (208) 883-7018

E-mail: griedner at ci.moscow.id.us

c:         Mayor, City Council, All City Users

Re:      City of Moscow Press Release

Date:   September 28, 2009

 

For Immediate Release:

 

Biennial Ismat & Mannan Sheikh Community Unity Award

 

Moscow, Idaho - 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, the
late Ismat Ara Sheikh and 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 23, 2009.  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 recipients of the Ismat Ara and Abdul Mannan Sheikh Community Unity
Award will be announced at a public ceremony in City Hall Council
Chambers on Thursday, November 18, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. 

 

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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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