Dave Ross and KOAA’s Dianne Derby. Photograph courtesy Dave Ross, through koaa.com
Dave Ross of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a former B-52 pilot who served in Operation Desert Storm, nevertheless it’s his work with Project Healing Waters that earned him a Lighthouse Award from his native information station:
[His] volunteer work began with cooking for the non-profit’s daylong fishing journeys throughout southern Colorado. He then began to tackle the tasks for coordinating in a single day fishing journeys, then fundraising. The nationwide non-profit finally acknowledged Ross as a high fundraiser.
“I actually needed to acknowledge the hours that he spends that folks don’t see,” mentioned Sue Ross. “He’s on his laptop searching for grant sources, enhancing grants, ensuring that he has all the data that he wants, and ensuring each journey is full and that the suitable mentors match with the suitable participant.”
It’s that sort of selfless service to others we knew deserved another particular recognition, the Information 5 Lighthouse Award.
Click on the hyperlink under for a video report and to listen to among the outstanding tales of Ross’s (actually) life-saving work by means of fly fishing.
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