Business Enterprise Awards from Saline Chamber of Commerce

Posted by Missy Caulk on April 12th, 2008

Every year the Saline Chamber of Commerce honors three citizens at their Business Enterprise Award Reception.

This year the awards go to Betsy Marl for the Citizen of The Year. Besty was born and raised in Saline and has been a first grade teacher since 1975. She is married to Gary Marl, former owner of Saline Dodge in Saline.

Taylor Jacobsen is this years recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Taylor was also a teacher in Saline Schools,where he taught art for 40 years. Taylor also graduated from Saline High School. He is a founding member of the Saline Historical Preservation Committee and was involved extensively in the restoration of the Weber-Blaess one room school house. A school that he attended as a child formally called the Lodi Plains School.

Finally the George A Anderson Vision Award goes to newly elected Saline Schools Superintendent Scot Graden. Formally a teacher, football coach and Community Education Director for Saline Schools, Scot has been involved in many project around Saline. Scot has served for eight years as the Chairman of the CARES Mileage Advisory Board. The board annually gives out grant money to fund various projects around Saline, including Soccer, African American Culture and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County and is currently funding the restoration of Henne Field.

Congratulations to Betsy, Taylor and Scot.

The Youth of the Year Award, which is also presented the night of the Business Enterprise Awards goes to Andrew Schantz. Andrew is a Jr at Saline High School and was responsible for the Dress for Less Saline which donated homecoming and prom dresses to benefit Charity. He has been chairman of the Saline Youth Council for 2 years and is running for FCCLA, which oversees 250,000 youth.

Congratulations to you Andrew.

This is a great, fun event honoring our Citizens and we hope you can attend and get to know and congratulate the current winners.

Tickets are $20.00 per person and can be purchased by calling the Saline Chamber of Commerce at 734–944–4494 or visiting their web site at Saline Chamber.com The event is held at Saline High School and is Friday, April 18^th.