The Make A Difference Award Program recognizes one employee quarterly. Nominations for the award may be submitted by any Geneseo Park District patron. All employees of the Geneseo Park District are eligible for this award.

Download a nomination form or just email Jodie at jolson@geneseoparkdistrict.org (remember to include your name and contact information too!)

We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 3rd Quarter“Make A Difference Award” is Steve Alexander.

Steve is a Lifeguard at the Geneseo Community Center. He was nominated by Virginia Whalen; Ben, Ginny, Virginia, Lily, Eliaz and Rosie Mack; Hank and Emma Grace Hicks. Here is what they all had to say . . .

• Mr. Alexander took the time to get the slide our for our children and worked with them as well as carefully watching to be sure all were safe. He got googles for the kids, encouraging them to enjoy their time in the water to the fullest. Best lifeguard yet!

• He is always smiling when we are in the pool, he brought the slide out for the kids and they had a blast. He encourages them as they are learning to swim. He brought out googles and gave each kid a pair. My kids were ecstatic and already swimming better after he gave them the googles.

• He was really nice, and he got out the blue slide and let us kids go down it. He also let us pick out our own googles and keep them.

• He made the pool fun by letting us use the slide and googles.

• He got us googles and watched that we were safe.

• He got out the slide, it was fun. I like the googles.

• He got us the slide and worked with us. I like using the googles. I like going under the water with them, I could see under the water.

• I like him, he is nice and always smiling. He got the slide out. He is funny and cool.

• I had fun, Mr. Alexander was so nice. He let us go down the slide and let us wear googles. He interacted with us and helped us. Mr. Alexander is so nice and fun!

We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 3rd Quarter “Above and Beyond” Award is . . . Diane Flynn!

Diane is a Lifeguard at the Geneseo Community Center. Diane was nominated by Teri Lynch. Here is what Teri had to say . . .

“On September 18th, a woman from the swim class come out to report that there were two areas where someone had sat down with a dirty bottom leaving feces on the bench. Diane did not hesitate and went straight to get gloves and Clorox wipes. She went into the women’s locker room and cleaned the areas. This was not her job, but she didn’t think about that. She did something most would not do. Kudo’s to Diane!”.