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1982 MTC Award Winners

Grand Award

• Miriam Gholikely, member of SamTrans Board of Directors

Special Transportation Employee Award

• Bill Bishop, AC Transit community outreach person

• August J. Gouig, Antioch Seniors’ Bus driver

Awards of Merit

• State Senator John Foran

• H.A. "Spike" Flertzheim, public works director for Alameda County

• Bay Area United Youth, for participation in AC Transit’s Community Values Program

• Friends in Sonoma Helping, paratransit services

• More Than Meets the Eye, volunteer college group that cleaned four commuter rail stations

• Celinda Romaine, director of Provide-A-Ride: paratransit advocate and volunteer

Certificates of Achievement

• AC Transit public information campaign on "Accessible Transit"

• Martin Cooke, coordinator of OMNIBUS paratransit service for city of San Pablo

• Dennis Guinaw, coordinator of the Santa Clara County Paratransit Coordinating Council

• Santa Clara County Manufacturing Group, traffic improvements in Santa Clara

• Syntex Corporation, ridesharing program

• San Jose Mercury News

• Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc.: transportation alternatives program

• Bill Noshkin, Provide-A-Ride paratransit driver

• Ilona Kecskemethy, schecduler for Tri-City Bus of St. Helena

• Richard Skaff, member of Marin County Paratransit Coordinating Council

• ATU Local #1555 (BART), Public Information and Education Committee for campaign to improve public understanding and use of BART

• Bay Area Council, support of MTC’s Commute Alternatives Program

Letters of Recognition

• Assemblymembers Elihu Harris, William Lockyer and Louis J. Papan for their efforts on behalf of paratransit legislation

• Caltrans, CHP, GGBH&TD and the Marin County Sheriff’s Department for helping to restore transportation services between Marin County and San Francisco during the flood on Jan. 4, 1982

• Curtis Green, retiring general manager of the San Francisco Municipal Railway