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<h2 style="font-size: 200%;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">August 8, 2018</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 75px; font-size: 120%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: John Baker
<br />Trust Administrator
<br />573.817.5027
<br />John.Baker@CoMo.gov</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:200%;"><h3 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 170%;">Howard B. Lang, Jr. Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service presented to Cheryl Price</h3>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - At the Aug. 6 Columbia City Council meeting, Mayor Brian Treece presented Cheryl Price with the ninth Howard B. Lang, Jr. Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service to the City of Columbia. <br /><br />The Lang Award was initiated by a gift from Leo Hill in 2008 to honor the memory of Howard B. Lang, Jr., who served as Columbia’s mayor from 1953 to 1957, and to recognize a citizen annually who models the highest qualities of volunteerism to City programs or services. Hill was city manager during the years when Lang was mayor.<br /><br />Price has served the community through her extensive advocacy for disabled persons. Cheryl, herself, suffered a brain injury decades ago while serving as a nurse at Truman VA Hospital. The injury affected the use of her legs, and over time she was able to her own injury into a point of strength and positive change for others. <br /><br />Price has served multiple
terms on the Public Transit Advisory Commission (PTAC), the Columbia Disabilities Commission, was a founding member of both the Brain Injury Association of MO and of America, and has served on numerous other boards and commissions both local and more expansively.<br /><br />In the words of her nominator, Rachel Ruhlen, "Cheryl just will not live a life without advocacy, to the benefit of our community if also the concern of her friends." <br /><br />When Drew Brooks started his position with the City of Columbia in 2008 as transit superintendent, he said he was a novice at many of the ParaTransit and ADA issues facing Columbia. His manager at that time asked him, "Do you know Cheryl Price? If you don’t you need to set up a meeting with her immediately." Price has helped those who help, thus expanding her influence widely, and she has done so for over 30 years.<br /><br />Price is especially knowledgeable in discussions regarding ADA issues, brain i
njury survivors, pedestrian safety, veterans and the host of disability issues. Her expertise is broad and if she doesn’t know how to solve a problem, she’ll volunteer to find someone who can help. Her advocacy for people with disabilities is local, statewide and national.<br /><br />To affix a number to one area of Price’s dedicated service, she herself has provided over 25,000 hours of volunteer case management and aftermath support for survivors of brain injury and their families to receive much-needed community resources.<br /><br />Another supporter of her nomination added that her faithful volunteerism is driven by her vision of a better, fairer world, arising from her sincere compassion for people suffering misfortune and discrimination. She truly believes that society can and must provide supportive services so everyone can achieve their potential. <br /><br />The selection committee for the annual Lang Award changes every year, but always includes
the sitting mayor of Columbia. Other members of the 2018 selection committee were past mayor Bob McDavid, JJ Musgrove, Pat Fowler and Amy Sajko. The committee’s selection criteria include a nominee’s volunteer activities, personal initiative and impact.<br /><br />A cash gift of $1,000 is included with the award; Cheryl will be making donations to two selected nonprofits and helping a few veterans she has come to know at Patriot Place in Columbia. <br /><br />Cheryl’s husband, along with numerous friends and supporters, were in attendance to celebrate with her. Also present at the Council meeting was Khaki Westerfield, daughter of Howard B. Lang, Jr., and Columbia resident.<br /><br />Past recipients of the Lang Award are Ed Kaiser, Darwin Hindman, Dave Griggs, Robert C. Smith, Eva Jo Sapp (posthumously), Kee Groshong, Genie Rogers and Mary Ann McCollum.</div>
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<div class="attachments">This release has the following attachments:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.como.gov/CMS/pressreleases/downloadfile.php?id=2033">Mayor Brian Treece (L) presented the award to Cher</a><br /><a href="https://www.como.gov/CMS/pressreleases/downloadfile.php?id=2034">Cheryl Price was awarded with the Howard B. Lang, </a></div>
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