Winners of the eighth annual teacher awards

Published 8:19 am Wednesday, November 22, 2017

BERRIEN SPRINGS — Honor Credit Union recently announce the winners of eighth annual Teacher Awards.

Honor team members selected 36 winners, who each received $100 to use in their classroom or school. Entrants submitted a short description of how they would use the money to better educate their students.

More than 200 submissions were received throughout Honor’s 18 local branch communities. The winners are:

• Lindsay Bannatyne (Allegan Public Schools)

• Sharon Fales (Allegan Public Schools)

• Karl Shafer (Battle Creek Lakeview)

• Tangi Olds (Battle Creek Calhoun Christian)

• Linda Douglas (Benton Harbor Countryside Academy)

• Leah Reusser (Benton Harbor Area School)

• DeLynn Bushouse (Berrien RESA)

• Kelly Fortune (Berrien Public Schools)

• Sarah Andalon (St. Charles Catholic)

• Annette Szafranski (Quincy Community Schools)

• Amy Iliff (Watervliet Schools)

• Rebecca Allen (Coloma Community School District)

• Christine Potter (Hartford Public Schools)

• Megan Palmateer (Hartford Public Schools)

Mary Alice Korth (Dowagiac Union Schools)

Denise Stockwell (Dowagiac Union Schools)

• Amy Waldo (Gwinn Area Community Schools)

• Amanda Kainulainen (Gwinn Area Community Schools)

• Bethany Richardson (Forest Academy)

• Kary Mack (Kalamazoo Public Schools)

• Misty Fender (Marquette SDA School)

• Suzanne Coyne (Marquette Area Public Schools)

• Amy Hausher (Ishpeming Public Schools)

• Craig Goff (Ishpeming Public Schools)

Nichole Tiefenbach (Brandywine Community Schools)

• Kelly Flick (Niles Community Schools)

• Nancy Zyzelewski (Otsego Schools)

• Darcy Bentley (Otsego Schools)

• Anne Weston (Mattawan Consolidated Schools)

• Jane Miller-Harris (Bloomingdale Schools)

• Ashley Purgiel (South Haven Public Schools)

• Sally Raasch (South Haven Public Schools)

• Laurie Marszalec (Lake Michigan Catholic)

• Kathy Reck (Saint Joseph Public Schools)

• Karen Keesler (Lakeshore Public Schools)

• Maddie Haydon (Lakeshore Public Schools)

Honor Credit Union serves more than 75,000 members across the state of Michigan. Providing solutions for financial success and giving back to the communities it serves remains the

driving forces behind Honor Credit Union, officials said.

For more information, call (800) 442-2800, or visit honorcu.com.