SV 2020 Community Award Winners Announced Stayin’ Alive Gala Virtual Event to Honor Our Winners and Gather as a Community
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e are very proud and honored to The Scotts Valley Chamber of Comannounce the 2020 Scotts Valley merce is very excited to announce the Chamber Community Award date and new format of the 2020 Gala winners. Awards. Through this very difficult and unprecIt will be a virtual event held on Satedented year of the Covid pandemic and urday, March 13th so be sure to save the the devastating CZU fire our community date. While the program is still coming has faced many hard challenges and even together, we’ll kick it off with a fun crowdthrough it all these awards are presented sourced music video featuring members of to an incredible group that gave us hope, our community dancing to a parody of the support, advocacy, optimism, encour- Bee Gee’s song “Stayin’ Alive”. agement, shelter and beauty of the great You can also look forward to enteroutdoors to sustain our health and enjoy. taining video profiles of all of the award winners, opportunity drawings, a silent Business of the Year auction, and opportunities to interact with Tam Communications the hosts and each other. It will be a Gala Woman of the Year to remember. Joanne Guzman We’re currently on the look-out Man of the Year for sponsors who will benefit from not Michael Hanson only the usual shout outs by the host Educator of the Year and on-screen graphics, highlights in Erik Wyner social media and other publicity, but Youth of the Year also a video promoting your business Anika Minstry produced by Scotts Valley’s own Tam Organization of the Year Communications. Santa Cruz Moose Lodge #545 If you’re interested in being a sponsor, Beautification Project of the Year contact the chamber at dreber@scottsvalley Glenwood Preserve chamber.com or call (831) 588-9323.
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Educator of the Year
Erik Wyner
rik started teaching in the Scotts Valley area in 1998 as a gymnastics teacher in Felton, where he taught for 10 years. He started at SVHS in 2001, teaching Psychology, Web Development, and a variety of math classes over the years. In 2003, he started as assistant crosscountry coach, bringing a total of 12 teams to the state championship in the years since then. Also, in 2003, he was part of the first
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Business of the Year
Tam Communications
am Communications is a family-owned business founded in 1979 by Tam and Susan O’Connor Fraser. Tam is a Director/ Cameraman/Editor, Susan is the Executive Producer/Creative Director and Writer, and their daughter, Regan Eymann, is a Producer/Director who also helps with website development. As a full-service television, video, and digital media production company, #TeamTam takes projects from concept to completion. They’ve worked with some of Northern California’s leading organizations from Intel to Apple, from Satellite Healthcare to Sciton and from the United Way of Santa Clara County to Sacred Heart Community Services to the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County to Second Harvest Food Bank. They also produce television commercials including those for the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and programming for cable networks like the Discovery Networks. They’ve won hundreds of regional, national, and international awards for their work including the highly acclaimed
annual Scotts Valley Haunted After many major revisions House. By 2019, the event had and restarts throughout summer reached a size of nearly 200 and fall based on changing volunteer students, alumni, and regulations, sentiments, and community members, selling permissions, they worked with over 2000 tickets for its one a core group of volunteers to weekend. put together the 18th annual In 2020, Erik and the student Scotts Valley Haunted House, lead, junior Greta Feague, made reimagined as a drive-through Erik Wyner it a priority to keep the traall-ages experience largely comdition alive for the students and for the prised of creations delivered by dozens of community. students working at home.
Happy New Year!
From left: Susan, Tam and Regan
animated video, “Summer is Coming” for the Boardwalk. The team has most recently been doing pro bono work for the Scotts Valley Economic Recovery Task Force, creating videos for Scotts Valley-based businesses to help boost their brands and encourage the Community to shop local. Additionally, they have created a series of television public service announcements featuring a number of Scotts Valley business owners. The commercials, which aired throughout the tri-county area, brought a wider audience’s attention to Scotts Valley and to the people and places that make our town such a special place. The event quickly sold out, sending through nearly 1500 vehicles. Including this year ’s proceeds, Scotts Valley Haunted House has donated nearly $100,000 to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society since 2012. Erik has coded several websites, including svhaunt.org. This year he created svhsfalcons.org to make distance learning an easier process at SVHS by automatically bringing students to each of their Zoom classes without the need for links.
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