Five Gardiner, ME, Drivers Achieve 2011 Safety Honors
Fourteen Northern New England District postal drivers have been selected for the National Safety Council's (NSC) 2011 Award of Honor: All Award of Honor recipients met the minimum criteria of 15 years or 100,000 miles without a preventable accident. Five of the honorees work at the Gardiner, ME, Post Office.
Seen left to right are Gardiner Rural Carrier Lorraine Boucher, Postmaster Audrey Johnson, Rural Carrier/Million Miler Ralph (Skip) Hunter, Letter Carrier Charles Webber and T-6 Letter Carrier John Fish . Not present is Rural Carrier Stephanie Hanley.
The 2011 Award of Honor was issued to the following seven Northern New England drivers:
Salem, NH - Joseph Russo
Salem, NH - Paula Ciras
Ferrisburgh, VT -Sally Torrey
Athens, ME - Richard Brown
Portland, ME - Dominic Paul Di Matteo (past Million Mile winner)
Old Town, ME - Mark Russell
Old Town, ME - Durice Washburn
The top drivers in each Area are in the running for the 2011 USPS Joseph M. Kaplan Safe Driver of the Year Award to be announced in November.