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Sandy City ceremony traces decades of volunteerism around Noel Bateman Service Award
Summary
At a Sandy City event, residents and presenters recounted the history of the Noel Bateman Service Award, established in 1986, and highlighted long‑time volunteers and civic projects that shaped the city.
Sandy City residents and speakers used a city ceremony to recount the history of volunteerism in Sandy and to summarize recipients of the Noel Bateman Service Award, an annual honor established in 1986 to recognize long-term community service.
The award was named for Noel Bateman, described in the program as “widely known as Mister Sandy,” who devoted more than 70 years to community service and served about 20 years on the Sandy City Council and as mayor. The program noted Bateman as the 1986 inaugural recipient and listed other honorees and longtime civic leaders, including Charles Grant Hurst, Bertha Soderbergh Rand, Nathaniel Clark Stringham and others whose work helped found local organizations and civic projects.
Why it matters: the presentation placed the award and individual biographies in the context of Sandy’s civic institutions — the…
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