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30 years
Wayne Stinson, Douglas County Emergency Management

15 years
Mark Bennett, Baker County Emergency Management
Rod Conway, Keizer Fire District
Bob Grist, Multnomah County Emergency Management

10 years
Chris Asanovic, Cornelius Fire Department
Howard Schesser, City of Cottage Grove

5 years
Tracy DePew, Douglas County Health
Rodney Rogers, American Red Cross, Oregon Trail Chapter
Dana Robinson, Clackamas County Emergency Management
Ken Goettel, Goettel & Associates
Jay Winchester, Washington County, Building Services
Charles Leonard, Oregon State, Department of Agriculture
Andre LeDuc, University of Oregon
Krista Rowland, Marion County Emergency Management


No one for 20 or 25 years




The emergency managers of Oregon are among the most innovative, collaborative, and dedicated professionals in the nation. We are known for our creativity, doing more with less, and getting the job done despite the odds.

Each year OEMA recognizes our peers in three categories: Innovation, Coordination and Service. We honor members and partners (non-members) in all three of these categories. We also present an additional special recognition for career service with the President's Award. Below are our 2010 awardees:

Partner Innovation Award

GARRET VANDERZANDEN AND THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY MATERIALS MANAGEMENT STAFF

This nomination is being recognized for the work of a team that managed Oregon's only approved local CDC Receipt, Stage, and Storage (RSS) facility for the distribution of medications, medical supplies, and other materials during emergency conditions. From fall 2009 into spring 2010 the RSS was activated and provided Personal Protective Equipment, anti-virals, and vaccines to vaccination operations at health departments, partners, and hospitals throughout the state. The processes developed and experience gained has direct application to logistical warehouse support of general emergency management operations using logisticians and processes that perform related services on a daily basis.

Partner Coordination Award

OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION AGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER

The H1N1 pandemic demanded an unprecedented level of coordination to support response activities. This agency's incident management team (IMT) stood up for 174 days, and its agency operation center was activated for 72 days. The AOC coordinated with a wide range of local, tribal, federal and state agencies, developed daily and weekly situation reports and weekly incident action plans, and managed the unprecedented statewide public information efforts. The AOC also supported enhanced statewide 211 call center operations, mass vaccinations efforts, the medical Personal Protective Equipment 'push-packages' procedures, and health worker protection, medical surge, and community mitigation planning throughout the response.

Partner Service Award

MARILYN NIKOLAS
Bold Planning Solutions

This friend of OEMA has been leading disaster recovery, business continuity, continuity of operations and crisis management projects in the private sector for over twenty years. She became a certified business continuity planner through the Disaster Recovery Institute in the early 1990's and earned her MBA from Washington State University in 1994. She has led continuity program development in the banking, utility and insurance sectors, and has been involved in numerous actual business relocation recovery efforts.

She began her volunteer work educating the private sector about preparedness with the Oregon Continuity Planners Association and is the organization's current president. The OCPA meets monthly to discuss issues such as business survival through a disruption, local economic resiliency, and making private sector resources available for public sector response efforts.

She and her husband are raising 3 boys, so much of her spare time is spent at sporting and school events.

Member Innovation Award

VICKY VOSE
who will soon assume a new position as Emergency Preparedness Coordinator of the Salem Hospital

This member began her emergency management career in 1995 as a volunteer CERT member for Lake Oswego Fire Department. In 2005 she became the Citizen Corp Program Coordinator for St. Helens Police Department, and later worked for Columbia County Emergency Management. By 2008 she became the Portland Service Area Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for Providence Health & Services, and a year later completed her Bachelors in Health Administration.

This member was selected for this award for developing an interactive and entertaining sandbagging training tool. Miniature versions of sandbags are used to show children and their parents how full to fill the bags, stack them and where to place them. Through demonstration to the children, the parents (the real targets) are also educated in successful sandbagging techniques. This member developed this tool on her own time, outside of normal job responsibilities, and without any external funding.

Member Coordination Award

MICHAEL J. MUMAW
Emergency Manager, City of Beaverton

This city Emergency Manager has 20 years of emergency management experience including two years as a Disaster Preparedness Officer in the United States Air Force. He entered his current position in July 1996 and is responsible for all aspects of his city's preparedness, including continuity of operations.

He has taken on leadership roles in local and national emergency management associations. He currently serves as President of International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) - Region 10, and has been a dedicated member of OEMA for fourteen years, serving as our president as well.

Last year, he once again led the recruitment and coordination of exhibitors and sponsors for our annual conference. As a joint conference with the Washington State Emergency Management Association, it required even more of his organization, management and persuasive skills. He brought a diverse array of 32 indoor and seven outdoor exhibitors, our largest conference display in history. This contributed vital product and service awareness to our members, and revenue to support the conference and association.

Member Service Award

ERIC PLEBUCH
Peterson Power Systems

This individual has been a loyal member of OEMA for the past three years. As a rental sales consultant with a major national equipment dealer for nearly nine years, he has helped Oregon businesses, non-profits, and other organizations plan successfully to provide electric power for their facilities in emergencies. In fact, his recent article, "Keep the Lights On: How to Institute an Emergency Power Generation Plan for Your Facility in Twelve Steps", offers pointers to help any business institute an emergency power plan.

He has also diligently invested countless hours over the past two years leading the development of OEMA's Strategic Plan. Through the typical hurdles of inertia and the busy schedules of others, he initiated and continued to push forward his position that we as an organization need to focus our efforts to better serve our members and continue to grow.

This member has been married to his wife Jinger of 15 yrs, and has two children, Peyton 14 and Tyler 13. His free time is spent playing golf and watching football, all football, High School, Middle School, College, and Professional.

President's Award

PERRY HOPKINS
Portland Water Bureau

The president's award was created several years ago to give the association president an opportunity to recognize someone for unique service that may not fit into a particular category. As your president last year, when I was asked to consider a candidate one name immediately came to mind.

This individual is being honored for a long history of service to the local emergency management community. He was hired as his agency's first Emergency Operations Manager in October of 1997, following 12 years in an emergency management agency in York County, Maine. At that time, he was one of the few people in the nation certified by FEMA as a trainer. He also had experience in fire and law enforcement dating back to the mid-70's. He was a member of OEMA for thirteen years, joining almost as soon as he moved to Oregon.

As a bureau Emergency Manager, he led his agency's efforts during Hurricane Katrina relief response. Response crews were so thankful to have him there that they presented him with a St. Christopher Medal in an emotional recognition ceremony just before Task Force Two left New Orleans to return home.

It was said that this person had an infectious enthusiasm about his work. His devotion to his bureau and colleagues was unquestioned. His special interests included amateur radio, backpacking and the Boy Scouts.

You have probably noticed that I have been speaking in the past tense. This is because in May of this year this member was taken from us due to complications following surgery. It was an unexpected and tragic loss to the emergency management community in Oregon.

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