The St. Lawrence County Board of Realtors held a mixer at Phoenix on the Bay in Ogdensburg Aug. 6. It had a dual purpose, allowing affiliates to showcase their products and services and to recognize Realtor members for their years of service. Each Realtor member received a Realtor pin based on the number of years of continuous Realtor membership (rounded down to the nearest five-year period). In future years, we will honor members only when they reach five-year milestones.
The list that follows includes members who have been a Realtor for five or more years. I have noted their actual number of years as of Dec. 31.
The longest serving are: William Lacy (43), Paul J. Boyer (31), Scott Boyer (28), and Dorothy Petrosky (27), and Lynne Hall (26).
25 years — Jeannine Ann Austin and Matthew Garlock
24 years — Janet Handschuh, James LaValley, Linda Pratt and Jennifer Stevenson
23 years — Norene Randall
22 years — Rose Baldwin, Nikki Coates and Patricia Collins
21 years — David Fontana, Douglas Hawkins and Robert Moyer
18 years — Kenneth Friedel
17 years — Vickie Staie
15 years — Janet Brown, Cathy Fiacco-Garlock, Linda Fields, Darlene March, Bonnie McNichol, Sally Mulvana and Shirley Robinson
14 years — Penny Bogardus, Mahlon Clements, William Collins, Michael Corbine, Jane Dyke, Donald Koscak, Darlene O’Connor, Margaret Payne, Kathleen Pomeroy, Rhonda Roethel, Sandra Santamoor and Jennie Vieths
13 years — Carol Anderson, Carol Frego, Debbie Gilson, Marcia Henry, Lucille Kassian, Michael Kassian, Linda Love, Karen McAuliffe, Kathleen McSorley , Chantal O’Shaughnessy, Carol Smilgin, Steven Szafranski, Ruth Varley and Mary Lisa Whitton
12 years — Christine Amo, Colleen Ayers, Robert Bessette, Samuel Carbone, Holly Chase, David Copeman, Esq, Linda Dufrane, Rowena General, Pamela Gmyr, Duane Hazelton, Robert Hostetter, Edward Kondracki, Charlotte Misiaszek, Paul Post, Timothy Post, C. Korleen Spilman and Cheryl Yelle
11 years — Gail Abplanalp, Diane Burns, Allison Chadwick, Dale Coats, Andrea Kelly, Lois Langtry, Andrew Marsjanik, Erin Meyer, P. Joseph Siematowski and Duane White
10 years — Sharon Alford, Ronald Papke, Margaret Sherman and John Wicke
9 years — Angela Augsbury. Nancy Badlam, Paul Barbour, Denise Barstow, Angela Bickelhaupt-LaJoy, Elaine Charleson, Diana Dufresne, Jani Hobbs, Christine Kassian, Jolene LaSiege and Brad Love
8 years — Lisa Arquette, Bradley Burns, Sharon Cook, Angela Drumm, Suzanne Liberty, Lori Nettles, Kristie Perreta, Marcia Putman, Matthew Szeliga and Jeremy Ward
7 years — George General, Joel Howie, Joseph Koscak, Amy Longshore Hunt, Alexander MacKinnon, Robert McLauglin, Scarlett Slack, Tania Sterling and Karen Thompson
6 years — Sara Barney, Jennifer Blevins, Suzanne Brashaw, Gregory Chapin, Kari Nezezon, Cathy Race, James Snyder, Sherri Stone, Pamela Winter, Lisa Wood and Richard Wood
5 years — Phillip Collins, Richard Dudley, Lori Smith and Verona Stephens
In the July issue, I listed Jefferson-Lewis Board of Realtors members who earned recognition pins. Due to errors in our records, several members’ years of service (as of December) were incorrectly reported. Christina Thornton has been a member for 39 years and Sylvia Firlik-Buckingham has been a member for 34 years.
The Tri-County (New York) Chapter of the Women’s Council of Realtors held its fourth annual golf tournament July 25 at Highland Meadows Golf Course. Fifteen teams and 60 players participated in this year’s captain and crew tournament. Teams were divided into a men’s division with at least three men per team, a women’s division with at least three women per team and a coed division.
Janet Handschuh, the chapter’s president-elect, and Debbie Staie, the chapter’s secretary and ways and means chairwoman, chaired and organized the tournament. First Niagara Bank was a major sponsor and a number of companies sponsored holes. A portion of the money raised is being donated to the Watertown Urban Mission for its critical needs program that provides emergency assistance to local residents and families.
Next year’s tournament is scheduled for Friday, July 24, at Highland Meadows.
Lance Evans
Lance M. Evans is the executive officer of the Jefferson-Lewis Board of Realtors and the St. Lawrence County Board of Realtors. Contact him at levans@nnymls.com. His column appears monthly in NNY Business.
