Wheatland Community Hall of Fame Nominations Provided by the GWA Chamber of Commerce

"One Person can make a difference, and everyone should try."

John F. Kennedy

Community Hall of Fame Nominations

The Wheatland Community Hall of Fame is governed and supported by the GWA Chamber of Commerce. The main purpose of the Community Hall of Fame program is to facilitate a community wide tradition of identifying, recognizing and celebrating citizens who contribute to the general benefit of the Wheatland Community. There are two levels of citizen recognition defined within the context of the Wheatland Community Hall of Fame:

Induction as a member of the Hall of Fame - For recognizing Wheatland’s most outstanding citizens who have made significant, positive, notable and/or lifetime contributions to the Town of Wheatland in the areas of community, education, recreation, civil and social services.
Selection as a Volunteer of Distinction - For recognizing community volunteerism. A Volunteer of Distinction is someone who freely gives time, effort and talent to a community need, cause or organization without compensation while making positive contributions through demonstrated excellence as a volunteer in support of the Town of Wheatland community.”

Nominations of candidates for induction into the Town of Wheatland Community Hall of Fame or for selection as a Volunteer of Distinction require completion of a nomination form, duly submitted by the annual published call for nominations deadline. Active GWA Chamber Salute to Excellence Committee members may be considered as candidates, but shall not participate in the evaluation of their candidacy or the candidate selection process.

Online Nominations Form

Nominations Evaluation and Selection Criteria

Community Hall of Fame Candidates:

1. A nominated candidate MUST have been at one or more times a resident of the Town of Wheatland, operated a business or worked in the Town of Wheatland to be eligible for selection to the Hall of Fame.

2. A Hall of Fame candidate may be nominated posthumously.

3. Multiple nominations may be accepted for a single Hall of Fame candidate, only one nomination is required.

4. Contributions made by a Hall of Fame candidate shall be SIGNIFICANT IN MAGNITUDE and of NOTABLE IMPORTANCE, while making a POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY. Contributions should also be clearly tangible and understandable.

5. In general, the contributions of a Hall of Fame candidate should have facilitated a constructive “change” associated the community.

6. A candidate must have CONTRIBUTED MORE to the community than just being a recognizable individual with high local visibility; or a generally good person, such as a model community citizen.

7. A candidate should not have negatively impacted the community through general or specific actions outside of the scope of the contributions defined in the nomination.

8. Contributions may be related to a candidate’s job or profession, but should not be directly attributable to what they are expected to do as a normal course within their job (I.e., what has the candidate done that has gone above and beyond their job expectations to show leadership, create change or give back to the community).

9. Membership in another community, school, industry or other recognition organization shall not be used as consideration for candidate evaluation.

Volunteer of Distinction Candidates:

1. A Volunteer of Distinction candidate may not be nominated posthumously (must be living at time of nomination).

2. Multiple nominations may be accepted for a single Volunteers of Distinction candidate, however only one nomination and nominator is required.

3. A nominated candidate shall generally have been a resident of the Town of Wheatland when the described volunteer actions were performed, however where appropriate non-residents may be considered.

4. A nominated candidate SHALL NOT HAVE RECEIVED COMPENSATION for volunteer actions associated with this nomination (i.e., stipends are not considered compensation).

5. The volunteer actions of a nominated candidate shall have CLEARLY MADE A POSITIVE IMPACT within the community and been performed with demonstrated excellence. Considerations of excellence include:

- Impact of actions,

- dedication,

- scope of effort,

- longevity,

- innovation, collaboration,

- breadth of actions (i.e., multiple overlapping actions).

6. Candidate nominations for existing Volunteers of Distinction will not be considered (an individual can only be recognized once as a Volunteer of Distinction).

Hall of Fame Community

Wheatland

Nomination Category

Community Hall of Fame

Volunteer of Distinction

Nomination Year

Submission Date

Nominee Information

Nominee First Name

Nominee Last Name

Nominee Address

Nominee Phone Number

Nominee Email Address

Brief Nominee Background (500 characters maximum)

List highlights of the nominee's background, such as profession, residency, community affiliations .

Nominee's Contribution (5000 characters maximum)

Identify and describe the contribution(s), indicating how the contributions satisfy the defined criteria for either a Community Hall of Fame nomination or a Volunteer of Distinction nomination, provide or reference supporting evidence.

Nominator Information

Nominator Name

Nominator Last Name

Nominator Address

Nominator Phone Number

Nominator Email Addess

Organization

Relationship to Nominee

Knowledge of Nominee's Contributions

The information provided is accurate to the best of my knowledge

Thank you for submitting a nomination to recognize a deserving person in the Community. You will be sent a confirmation email with a copy of your completed form