Oconee County’s Lee Becker has been named Volunteer of the Year by Georgia River Network.

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February 5, 2010

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Lee Becker named Volunteer of the Year by Georgia River Network

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By Wendell Dawson, Editor

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Oconee County’s Lee Becker has been named Volunteer of the Year by Georgia River Network.Reviewing the list of recipients of previous awards to distinguished Georgians puts Lee Becker in some elite company.

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CONGRATULATIONS, LEE.

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For details, see Lee’s Oconee County Observations.

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Oconee County Observations

http://oconeecountyobservations.blogspot.com/2010/02/georgia-river-network-announced-river.html

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February 4, 2010

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Georgia River Network Awards

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From Lee Becker

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Volunteer Winner a Local

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…The Georgia River Network today announced the winners of its 2010 River Celebration Awards, to be recognized Feb. 19 at the group’s sixth annual conference at the Jekyll Island Convention Center.
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The winners are: the Coosa River Basin Initiative from Rome as the Watershed Group of the Year, Gordon Rogers of Albany as the River Conservationist of the Year, and (Lee Becker) as the Volunteer of the Year.

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The Georgia River Network is a statewide organization working to preserve clean water in the state.    It’s offices are at 126 S. Milledge avenue in Athens.

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The news release said my contributions to the Oconee County area are twofold, citing the creation of Friends of Barber Creek in early 2006 and this blog, which it calls an important news source focusing on issues facing the county
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“It is not a stretch to say that Lee, who is both a professor of journalism and a 21st-century citizen journalist, has changed the landscape in Oconee County,” the release said.
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I am president of Friends of Barber Creek, but each of the other four board members–Karen Kimbaris, Eleanor Cotton, Tim Price and Joe Block–certainly deserves a share of this award
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Jim Butler, a lawyer in Columbus, Paul Deloach, a business development manager in Andersonville, and Mark Woodall, a lobbyist for the Sierra club from Woodland, were winners of the Volunteer of the Year Award in 2009. They set up the Flint Riverkeeper.

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For More, See: Georgia River Network