School board honors IVP and EC Fire Department
EL CENTRO – The El Centro Elementary School District Board of Trustees has selected Imperial Valley Press and the El Centro Fire Department to receive its Partner for Excellence awards for 2020.
Superintendent Jon LeDoux said the district established the Partner for Excellence Award in 2013 to recognize organizations, agencies and businesses that have contributed to ECESD in various ways over the years.
Previous recipients have been Imperial Irrigation District, El Centro Police Department, Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, the El Centro Chamber of Commerce, Centinela State Prison, CASA and the Imperial Valley Food Bank.
Nominations are accepted from ECESD staff and trustees, and the school board determines those who will be recognized.
“This award is a small token of our appreciation for the services your outstanding organization has provided to our students over the years, including the invaluable Newspapers in Education program, the spotlighting of our school events through the ‘ readers’ photos’ page and the ongoing willingness to show the positive in our community through feature stories and news articles,” LeDoux said.
IVP Editor Tom Bodus and city Fire Chief Kenneth Herbert accepted plaques on behalf of their respective organizations on Wednesday morning.
“I want to thank the El Centro Elementary School District Board of Trustees for this honor,” Bodus said. “Publishing a daily newspaper isn’t easy under the best of circumstances, and the last few months have been particularly trying, but our writers, designers and other staff work very hard at it, and we’re delighted with this show of appreciation.”
Formal awards announcements for both this newspaper and the Fire Department will be made this morning during ECESD’s annual backto- school, all- staff Welcome Back event on Zoom.
Both winners will also have their names added to ECESD’s perpetual plaque located in the District Board Room, LeDoux said.