Blue Water Woman of the Year Awards Rescheduled

Blue Water Woman Magazine, a quarterly print magazine for women in the Thumb area of Michigan, hosts an annual awards ceremony to celebrate the Women of the Year. The 10th annual ceremony was supposed to take place in January 2022, but high rates of COVID-19 caused organizer Patti Samar to reschedule.

The new date for the Blue Water Woman of the Year Awards is Wednesday, May 4, 2002 at 7 PM. The ceremony is at McMorran Place and includes heavy hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Tickets are $75 per person or $45 for students under 21.

This year’s ceremony will celebrate six local women. Patti Samar, editor and publisher of Blue Water Woman magazine, said, “I am so very pleased that such exceptionally accomplished and talented women have been selected for recognition. Due to the pandemic, there was no ceremony in 2021, so the three 2021 award recipients will be honored at the 2022 ceremony along with the newly named 2022 award recipients.”

The 2021 award recipients are Denise Brooks, Woman of the Year; Anita Ashford, Civic Leader of the Year; and Carolyn Crowe, Volunteer of the Year.  The 2022 award recipients are Melinda Scheible, Coach of the Year; Marguerite and Haran Stanley, Historians of the Year, and Dr. Annette Mercatante, Blue Water Woman of the Decade.

Tickets are available for the event <HERE>.

Reporting for WGRT – Jessie Wiegand