Tom Griffin is this year’s Great Person

    Tom Griffin is this year’s winner of the Leader’s annual Great Person Award.
    Griffin, a teacher at Scarborough Middle School and a coach, was nominated for his commitment to the community. Reasons for his nomination included his involvement with softball at Scarborough High School and with the Driblettes organization, being an “inspiring teacher” and his leadership in the Builders Club at Scarborough Middle School and the annual SMS bike/walk-a-thon for AIDS 
    He was nominated by Dan Warren.        
    For winning this year’s Great Person Award, Griffin will be presented with a plaque and is the subject of this edition’s Weekly Interview. See page 8.
    More than 500 votes were cast for this year’s award.
    Other nominees for this year’s award were Sara Salisbury, Jack Cowie, Jr., Val Jacob, Shawn Withers, Joanne Contois and Gene Skillings. The Leader would like to recognize all those who were nominated and their work to make Scarborough a better place.
    Past winners of the award include Mark Coulston, Mike Wood, Karen Packhem, Dwayne Hopkins, Dan Warren and Ellen Ross.