Annapolis, MD – Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (Maryland LCVEF) today announced that City of Salisbury Mayor Jake Day has been awarded the organization’s second annual President Theodore Roosevelt Award, acknowledging his integral role in the ongoing renaissance of the downtown area.
Specifically, the community’s notable record of progress in streetscape rehabilitation and building revitalization and reuse were acknowledged, as were river waterfront access and beautification efforts. Further, Salisbury’s commitment to the unglamorous but vital work of improving a 100-year-old underground water and sewer infrastructure was key as well.
The President Theodore Roosevelt Award – presented by Maryland LCVEF annually on the anniversary of the birth of President Theodore Roosevelt – recognizes the individual, group, or organization in Maryland who through a specific action, event, or body of work leaves a positive conservation legacy that mirrors the ethos of President Roosevelt.
“It is our honor to present this award to Mayor Day,” said Maryland LCVEF Board Chair Chuck Porcari. “Teddy Roosevelt served his community and his country in many forms, as does the Mayor. As the traditional anchor of Maryland’s Eastern Shore and the Delmarva Peninsula as a whole, today the City of Salisbury brings with it a spirit of renewal, revitalization, and long-term sustainability that Mayor Day, his team, and the region as a whole can be proud of.”
Mayor Day released the following statement:
“What we do here in Salisbury has repercussions well beyond our City limits, and so we strive to provide the best future possible for all of our citizens – in Salisbury, around the Chesapeake, and throughout Maryland – by raising the bar on our commitment to sustainability, conservation, and quality-of-life.
“The Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund has been clearing that bar for years. I am humbled to receive this award and proud of what it represents. President Theodore Roosevelt himself said of our natural resources, ‘The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.’ It is then our obligation to protect it.
“Whether rebuilding our wastewater treatment plant to become the producer of some of Maryland’s cleanest effluent, hiring a full-time sustainability coordinator, introducing curbside cardboard recycling, providing composting at our major events, becoming a USA Bee City and a Sustainable Maryland city, or securing the largest conservation easement inside a municipality in Maryland, we seek to meet our obligation, raise and clear new bars for environmental quality, and set an example that others are eager to follow.”
Nominations for the Maryland LCVEF President Theodore Roosevelt Award were actively solicited from all areas of the state, with the winner selected from a pool of a dozen finalists.
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I just puked up my breakfast
ReplyDeleteWhat drugs are these guys taking??? This is like the Nobel Prize going to the Kenyan-in-Chief (Muslim)
ReplyDeleteChuck Porcari is a guy who sets up these organizations as part of his PR business.
ReplyDeleteHypocrisy abounds. Getto paintings, tagging utility boxes and equipment, transexual abominations of rainbow crosswalks {designed to confuse drivers and pedestrians and cause harm} millions and millions spent on a non-workable treatment plant....which of these is a conservation act?!?!
ReplyDeleteMaryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund...blatant liars are usually thieves as well.
He and Teddy Roosevelt have about as much in common as fire and water.
ReplyDeleteJake Day's body of works??? He's been nothing but a liar and thief. He steals taxpayers dollars and award them in construction contracts to two different construction firms. Main Street is still looking ghetto fabulous
ReplyDeletestupid is as stupid does! total bs made up pile of puke! like everything else with idiot boy!
ReplyDeleteThis organization represents leftist views.
ReplyDeletewell I've formed the maryland low iq politician fund and we've selected day for our politician of the year!
ReplyDeleteTeddy award for "speaking softly and carrying a big twig" - maybe!!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't see the correlation at all!
5:09 - Ditto, but just my mid morning coffee.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of this organization. Is it the same kind of thing that PRMC does when it pays to be chosen as a national standout in cancer or heart treatment?
ReplyDeleteWe need to send letters, texts to this organizations and let them know from the citizens of Salisbury his real accomplishments(failures). The orange bikes for visitors to Salisbury, which were stolen and remaining ones returned. The blue street markers to locate hydrants in the dark which came up with normal street clean sweepers and traffic. The suggestion that the Presidents Neighborhood and high crime areas take down any chain link fences as they were not seen as appealing! The removal of the fence around the Wicomico County River in town because it wasn't appealing resulting in more floating bodies including one during the Downtown Festival. The outdoor Ampitheatre installed against Home Land Security's advise as being not a good spot next to a main road, heavy traffic and a high crime area. And now a skating rink installed at the same bad location. The first contractors working on Main Street Construction having to sue the city for the removal of trash to the city dump which we had promised to pay for and later refused causing them to sue the city. Please lets pursue this response to this award as it is a slap in the city's face.
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