Kathy Gaylord Costa Citizenship Award
The Geneva Community Projects board of directors established an award to be given annually to a person/persons whom the board feels should be recognized for outstanding service in the Geneva community. The award is called the Kathy Gaylord Costa Citizenship Award, named in honor of one of the original GCP Inc. board members. Kathy Costa enthusiastically joined the Geneva Community Playground Project at its early planning stages in 1991, and when GCP Inc. was formed in 1992, with modest three person board of directors, she was chosen as one of the original three directors. Kathy was a devoted mother of two who, held a job and was active in her children’s school association. Her involvement in the playground project was instrumental to its success. Kathy unexpectedly passed away in 1994 but lives on as an inspiration to those whose lives she touched.
The recipients of the Kathy Gaylord Costa Citizenship Award should know it is an honor to be associated with the name of this wonderful person.
Recipients
2023 Jim and Sue Adams
2022 Geneva Reads
2021 Dick Austin
2020 Chris Lavin
2019 John Hovey
2018 Leslie Kroeger & Chevanne "Chevy" DeVaney
2017 Fred Brockway