The Nebraska State Education Association has honored Mindy Diller, a family and consumer science teacher at Lux Middle School, with the 2020 Community Service Award. The Community Service Award recognizes individual members and local associations who are actively involved in non-paid volunteer work outside of classroom duty hours.<\/p>\n
The Nebraska State Education Association has named Lux Middle School teacher Mindy Diller the winner of its 2020 Community Service Award. The award recognizes individual members and local associations who are actively involved in non-paid volunteer work outside of classroom duty hours. Instead of gifts for herself, since 2017 Diller has chosen to celebrate her birthday by collecting items for others, specifically those who visit the Gathering Place. The Gathering Place serves meals and offers support to those in need. Her donation efforts have yielded tens of thousands of items, including more than 2,000 lip balms, hundreds of hair products, soaps and lotions, and 255 blankets.<\/p>\n
One of her colleagues said this about Diller when nominating her for the award:<\/p>\n
\u201cCommunity is defined as a \u2018feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests and goals.\u2019 Service is defined as \u2018the action of helping or doing work for someone.\u2019 Mindy Diller\u2019s photo should be shown next to those definitions.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Proposal<\/h2>\n
That the Lincoln Board of Education adopt the following resolution:<\/p>\n
WHEREAS, Mindy Diller has been honored with the 2020 Community Service Award from the Nebraska State Education Association; and<\/p>\n
WHEREAS, Mindy Diller has committed herself to helping those in need in the Lincoln community; and<\/p>\n
WHEREAS, Mindy Diller has collected tens of thousands of items for people who would otherwise go without; and<\/p>\n
WHEREAS, Mindy Diller has been a model of compassion and selflessness for her students to emulate;<\/p>\n
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Lincoln Board of Education
\ndoes hereby congratulate Mindy Diller for winning the 2020 Community Service Award from the Nebraska State Education Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Background The Nebraska State Education Association has honored Mindy Diller, a family and consumer science teacher at Lux Middle School, with the 2020 Community Service Award. The Community Service Award recognizes individual members and local associations who are actively involved in non-paid volunteer work outside of classroom duty hours. Explanation The Nebraska State Education Association […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}