{"id":362,"date":"2013-04-14T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toleranceweeksiouxcity.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2013-04-14T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T20:21:00","slug":"tolerance-week-awards-presented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toleranceweek.org\/tolerance-week-awards-presented\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolerance Week Awards Presented"},"content":{"rendered":"

Communitas\u00a0 is\u00a0a Latin word for people helping people for the benefit of their\u00a0 community.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 Communitas Award program is an international effort to recognize exceptional\u00a0 businesses, organizations and individuals that are unselfishly giving of\u00a0 themselves and their resources.\u00a0 Jerry<\/p>\n

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Mr. Weiner responds after being presented with the Communitas Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

and Kathy Weiner and their Tolerance\u00a0 Week efforts clearly exhibit the spirit of communitas.\u00a0 We are pleased to\u00a0 announce that Jerry and Kathy Weiner were presented with an International\u00a0 Communitas Award for Tolerance Week Wednesday by Governor Terry Branstad at the\u00a0 Sioux City Orpheum Theatre.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u00a0 also marked the first Tolerance Week Courage Awards. The Tolerance Week Courage\u00a0 to Teach\u00a0Award went to Linda McQueen, who has brought her students to the<\/p>\n

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Linda McQueen of Boyer Valley Schools receives the first Tolerance Week Courage to Teach Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tolerance Week movie event every year, traveling for an hour and forty five\u00a0 minutes each way from Dunlap, Iowa.<\/p>\n

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Fiona\u00a0 Valentine with the Lifelong Learning Institute at Western Iowa Tech was awarded\u00a0 the Tolerance Week Courage to Partner award, for being the ultimate Tolerance\u00a0 Week partner, coming through each year, sometimes on very short\u00a0 notice.<\/p>\n

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Fiona Valentine receives the first Tolerance Week Courage to Partner Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The\u00a0 first\u00a0Tolerance Week Courage to Enlighten Award was presented to Mr. Philip\u00a0 Gans for continuing to travel to Siouxland every year to speak to thousands of\u00a0 area students about his Auschwitz camp experiences.<\/p>\n

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Christine\u00a0 McAvoy was awarded the first Tolerance Week Courage to Advocate Award for\u00a0 helping to find emergency housing for an African family of ten.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Philip Gans received the first Tolerance Week Courage to Enlighten Award<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Communitas\u00a0 is\u00a0a Latin word for people helping people for the benefit of their\u00a0 community. The\u00a0 Communitas Award program is an international effort to recognize exceptional\u00a0 businesses, organizations and individuals that are unselfishly giving of\u00a0 themselves and their resources.\u00a0 Jerry and Kathy Weiner and their Tolerance\u00a0 Week efforts clearly exhibit the spirit of communitas.\u00a0 We are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toleranceweek.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toleranceweek.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toleranceweek.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toleranceweek.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toleranceweek.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toleranceweek.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toleranceweek.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toleranceweek.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toleranceweek.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}