Dixie Zabka, longtime dedicated community volunteer and business woman, was selected the 2018 Service Above Self awardee for the Seward Rotary Club’s annual Service Celebration on May 5 at the Seward County Fairgrounds Ag Pavilion.
The award is presented to an individual who has lived a life of community service and is not a member of Rotary.
Along with the Seward Rotary Club’s Service Above Self award, Zabka will be presented with the Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow award, and $1,000 has been donated in her name to the Rotary International Foundation to assist in eliminating polio and other projects of Rotary International. Paul Harris was the founder of Rotary International. She was selected through nomination and a vote of the Seward Rotary Club.
The annual Wayne Tanderup Award will be presented to Dave Ficke of Seward, owner of the Baby Boomers Motorcycles. The Wayne Tanderup Award is presented to a member of the community who exemplifies the perseverance to overcome hardship and/or disability to be a successful and contributing member of the community.
The late Wayne Tanderup overcame a battle with polio at an early age and became a successful businessman and devoted family man as well. To honor his longtime service to the Seward Rotary Club, this award was established. Ficke was selected through nomination and a vote of the Seward Rotary Club.
The annual Service Celebration banquet will be held at the Ag Pavilion beginning at 5:30 p.m. and include a social hour, Windsor Loin dinner, awards presentations, speaker UNL Volleyball Coach John Cook and a live and silent auction to assist with the funding of local projects of the Seward Rotary Club, as well as the support of Rotary’s International effort to eliminate polio worldwide.
Tickets to the Rotary Service Celebration dinner and program are $30 each and can be purchased at the Jones National Bank and Trust or from any member of Rotary. Tables of eight are sold for $300 and include extra benefits. Questions can be directed to Clark Kolterman at clark.kolterman@sewardschools.org or call (402) 641-8522, and he can direct you to the correct committee chairman for the event.
Event chair is Todd LaVelle and Russ Sommerfeld is the president of the Seward Rotary Club.
