Paul Harris Community Service Award recipients announced

The Rotary Club of Fort Wayne honored its 2023 Paul Harris Community Service Award recipients recently during its weekly meeting at Parkview Field. Honorees also received $1,000 to be donated to the nonprofit of their choice.

Recipients of this year’s award include:

• Iric Headley. Headley is a recent addition to Surack Enterprises and previously held the role of executive director of Fort Wayne UNITED, an initiative he helped establish to promote equity and diversity across the community in partnership with the city of Fort Wayne and over 200 organizations throughout the community.

• Patti Hays. Hays has a long resume of service person- ally and professionally within the Fort Wayne community, promoting the health of all citizens. Her efforts include guiding Stillwater as a board member in its work to provide compassionate home-based services for the sick and terminally ill; co-founding Advancing Voices of Women; actively serving as an executive committee member of the Allen County Board of Heath; and advocating for people with different abilities as the chief executive officer for AWS Foundation, among others.

• Alex Hall. Hall has become a nationally known painter, muralist and illustrator, in addition to being a change agent. She has been instrumental in changing the visual landscape

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