The Sweet Home Planning Commission presented its 2009 Quality Development Awards Monday night.
Brad and Amy Newport, owners, and Brian Puskarich, manager, received an award for new commercial development in an existing building for All-Star Pizza, located at 1203 Long St.
Jan Hufford Wilson and her parents Tom and Mardy Hufford received the Landmark Award for rebuilding and reopening the Cedar Shack Restaurant, which was destroyed in a 2004 arson. The Cedar Shack is located at 4102 Hwy. 20.
Public Works Director Mike Adams, Maintenance Supt. Pat Wood, engineer Jon Irwin, Ryan Quigley of Irwin Engineering and water treatment plant manager Shawn Moffitt of CH2M Hill OMI received public service awards for the construction of new water treatment plant, replacing one built in the late 1930s, and the remodeling of the former Wimer Trucking property into a new consolidated Public Works facility.
Aaron Eastman received a New Business Award and the Alice Grovom Award for the park-like development of Dutch Brothers, 604 Main St. He was not present to take the award.
Mike Melcher and Ron Moore received a Helping Hands Award for taking the lead in the construction of a new home for Dirrell Harper, a disabled man whose singlewide manufactured home at 3520 Kalmia was damaged in a June storm. Moore was not present to take his award.
The Newports received a Commercial Revitalization Award for cleaning up and remodeling the Econo Wash at 160 Main St., at the intersection of Main and Pleasant Valley streets.
John and Jo Mahler received an award for difficult lot development for their home at 340 Fourth Ave. The couple met a number of challenges with the size and configuration of the lot as they built the home.
School District 55 Supt. Larry Horton received a Promises Kept award on behalf of the district for the construction of new tennis courts at 953 18th Avenue. When the district’s insurance company declared the old courts unsafe, the district closed them. The School Board promised to build new courts, and with nearly $100,000 from the Sweet Home Economic
Development Group and funds from the U.S. Tennis Association and its Northwest chapter, it built four new courts. Horton recognized Jim Cota of Fun Forest and Jason Armstrong of Knife River for helping get the courts built.
The Sweet Home Active Revitalization Effort and Sweet Home Economic Development Group received perseverance awards for their ongoing efforts in economic revitalization of Sweet Home. Representing SHARE were Mike Adams, planning committee chairman; Nancy Patton, programming committee chairwoman; and Craig Martin, SHEDG board member.
Finance committee Chairman Bill Nyara and steering committee chairman Tom Hammons were not present to receive awards.