2009 Peacemaker Awards

On April 7, 2008, the Reverend Joyce Shutt received the Lifetime of Peacemaking Award, and the four past presidents of the Watershed Alliance of Adams County received the Peacemaker of the Year Award. The award includes the donation of $150 worth of books to the Adams County Library in the name of each award winner.

Reverend Joyce Shutt, recipient of the Lifetime of Peacemaking Award, is pastor emeritus of the Fairfield Mennonite Church and has been the convener of the local chapter of the Pennsylvania Prison Society for the past eight years. She is one of the founders of Fairfield Mennonite’s International Gift Festival, an annual event that features fair trade craft items from poorer countries throughout the world. Recently she has helped to establish the Community Re-Entry Coalition, a task force affiliated with Healthy Adams County, the goal of which is to prepare offenders to re-enter society successfully after time spent in prison. She is the author of Steps to Hope (Herald Press, 1990), a book which draws on the Beatitudes and the Twelve Steps Program to offer hope to families affected by alcohol and drug abuse.

Click here to read the citation speech for Reverend Joyce Shutt by Janet Powers.
Click here to read the list of materials donated to the library in honor of Rev. Shutt.

Robert Robinson, Patrick Naugle, Charles Skopic, and Mark Berg received the Peacemaker of the Year Award for 2008 for their work with the Watershed Alliance of Adams County. The Watershed Alliance, founded in 1999, is a non-profit organization which promotes better understanding of the complex watershed issues affecting Adams County and encourages water management and land use practices that will promote a sustainable watershed resource in Adams County. The Alliance has been involved in restoration of the Conewago Creek stream banks as well as water quality monitoring in the Conewago Creek, Rock Creek, and Middle Creek watersheds. Most recently, the Alliance has been conducting a groundwater evaluation on a portion of the Conewago Watershed to determine the availability of groundwater, and to determine the impacts of increased impervious surfaces on groundwater resources.

Click here to read the citation speech for the Watershed Alliance of Adams County by Bicky Redman.
Click here to read the acceptance speech by Mark Berg.
Click here to read the list of materials donated to the library in honor of the Watershed Alliance.

Materials donated to the library in honor of the award recipients

Click on the titles for more information about the selections (e.g., reviews, excerpts, etc.) from amazon.com

In honor of Reverend Joyce Shutt, 2008 Lifetime of Peacemaking Award Winner

J. Denny Weaver, The Nonviolent Atonement
Mark D. Siljander, A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman’s Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide
Greg Mortanson and David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terror and Build Nations–One School at a Time
Frances Taylor Gench, Back to the Well: Women’s Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels

In Honor of the Watershed Alliance of Adams County, 2008 Peacemaker of the Year Award Winner

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Temma Berg, The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth Century Circle of Acquaintance
Meredith Hooper, The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
Ann Forsyth, Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands
James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn, Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
George Monbiot, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning.

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Previous recipients
2008 Rev. Joyce Shutt and the Watershed Alliance of Adams County
2007 Karl Mattson and Susan Star Paddock
2006 Sam Mudd and Suse Greenstone
2005 Herman Stuempfle and Rajmohan Ramanathapillai
2004 Lou and Patricia Hammann
2003 Nancy Forgang
2002 Ernie Simpson
2001 Dick and Elizabeth Scott
2000 Jane and Marty Malone
1999 Nancy Whitman
1998 Father Joseph C. Hilbert
1997 Marjorie Smith
1996 Jean Odom
1995 Will Lane and Jan Powers

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