Awards June 7, 2013

Monique Cole, a real estate agent with Pedal to Properties in Boulder, was named a 2013 Five Star Real Estate Agent by Five Star Professional, an award program in North America for Realtors. Cole joined Pedal to Properties in 2010. A Realtor for 10 years, Cole is short-sale and foreclosure-resource certified as well as an eco-broker. The awards program identifies top professionals in their field based on regulatory and consumer reviews as well as an evaluation of objective criteria associated with quality real estate services. Real estate agents are nominated for the award by recent homebuyers who have worked with them.    

Eric Lombardi, executive director of Boulder-based Eco Cycle, received a lifetime achievement award at the Colorado Association for Recycling Awards. Lombardi was honored for his 30 years of service in the recycling industry and his leadership in building the zero-waste movement locally, nationally and internationally. He has served on the Colorado Governors’ Task Force on Waste and the National Recycling Coalition’s board of directors and was instrumental in creating the Colorado Association for Recycling and the GrassRoots Recycling Network and the Zero Waste International Alliance. Eco-Cycle received the Outstanding Outreach Award for its programs in promoting waste reduction, encouraging reuse, recycling and composting.    

MillerCoors honored Broomfield-based Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL) as its 2012 Innovator of the Year. The award recognizes Ball’s contributions in beverage packaging innovation as a supplier to MillerCoors. The Innovator of the Year award is presented annually to recognize a supplier’s contributions in areas such as innovation, quality, service, competitive cost, safety and corporate responsibility. Ball provides MillerCoors with aluminum beverage cans and aluminum bottles for many of its brands such as Coors Light and Miller Lite.    

John T. Baker, former executive director of the nonprofit National Institute for Trial Advocacy in Boulder, received the organization’s Robert E. Oliphant Award for his exemplary service to NITA as a teacher, program director and leader of the organization. Baker currently is the director of the Colorado Supreme Court’s Colorado Attorney Mentoring Program.    

Boulder-based Melton Design Build received a 2013 Guildmaster Award with Highest Distinction for exceptional customer service. GuildQuality is an independent customer satisfaction surveying company. Melton Design Build was one of more than 200 North American builders, remodelers, developers and contractors recognized by GuildQuality for their superior delivery of customer care. Melton Design Build achieved a recommendation rate of greater than 90 percent from their customers, who were surveyed through GuildQuality.    

Two projects designed by Boulder-based river park design firm Recreation Engineering & Planning received awards. Ann Arbor, Michigan recently won the 2012 Michigan Recreation and Park Association’s Park Design Award for the RE&P-designed Argo Cascades Park along the Huron River, which bypassed a large dam and converted it into a new river park used by paddlers, swimmers and others. The project also received a Frontline Park award from the national City Parks Alliance, an honor for projects that demonstrate inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation and stewardship. Another project designed by RE&P, the Bow River Weir Project in Alberta, Canada, received an Award of Excellence in the categories of Community Development and Water Resources & Energy Production.   

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