2011 Community Award Forms

Community Award Forms are now available below, or on our Downloads page. Feel free to print 'em out, fill 'em out, and cast your vote!

• 2011 Business Person of the Year (pdf)
• 2011 First Citizen Nomination form (pdf)
• 2011 Business Beautification Recognition (pdf)

2010 Community Awards Winners

Congratulations to the 2010 First Citizen, 2010 Business Person of the Year and 2010 Business Beautification Recognition Award.

March 2, 2010

2010 First Citizen

This years’ recipient of the “2010 First Citizen” is Pat Squires, resident of Garden City. Pat has been very active in volunteering for the past thirty years in many charities making Garden City a better place to live. Pat is a member of the Downtown Development Authority Promotion Committee and is a core member of Garden City’s Annual Santaland Parade Committee.

2010 Business Person of the Year

The “2010 Business Person of the Year” is Laurie Corell, owner of Sports Venue Bar & Grill. Laurie is a wonderful asset to the Garden City community through her participation in numerous activities in Garden City while being an upstanding business owner making her very deserving of this award.

2010 Business Beautification Recognition

Mario Perrotta, owner of Rare Muscle Car Parts is this year's "2010 Business Beautification Recognition” award recipient. Mr. Perrotta had a vision and working with George Hartman Architects has brought a positive impact to our community through improvements bringing an old cement block building into the finished business property we see today.

All award recipients will be honored at the Garden City Chamber of Commerce’s Community Awards Celebration Friday, March 19, 2010 at New Hawthorne Valley. Contact the Chamber of Commerce for ticket information. Phone: 734.422.4448

Downtown Garden City’s Scarecrow Stroll

Garden City, Mich. November 3, 2009.

Voted the 2009 Favorite Scarecrow is “Mr. O.VR. WORKED”, created by the employees at Garden City Ace Hardware, located at 28715 Ford Road. Visitors are invited to stop by the store and meet Mr. O.VR. WORKED, he is friendly, helpful and made of all things hardware. This is the second year for the Scarecrow Stroll with twenty seven businesses participating. The fall harvest activities also included the Chili Cook-Off held in early October sponsored by the Garden City Downtown Development Authority.

Many of the scarecrows were created and built by the local schools with the assistance of Art Around Town.

New this year was the scarecrow mystery challenge to find the autumn leaves placed on five scarecrows throughout the downtown. With the correct scarecrows named, the winner of the drawing for the Kmart $50.00 gift certificate is awarded to Lucy Shunduff, Canton, MI.

The DDA wishes to thank everyone participating in the event. If you are interested in getting involved, please contact the DDA office at (734)261-2830 or e-mail Kim Dold.

Garden City in the Wayne County Connect

Garden City has a beautiful two-page ad in the latest issue of the Wayne County Connect, a magazine that is available to showcase some of the great assets that the cities of Michigan have to offer the world.

The ad was created by Brooke Rochon, a very talented graphic designer and resident of Garden City.