Brookings 3M volunteers attract national attention

Mark Shoup talks with kids at the Boys & Girls Club of Brookings during their snack break Thursday afternoon. Shoup is a board member for the club and a manufacturing manager for 3M. He received the company’s Community Volunteer Award this year. / Alice Chu hands out a paper to students in Kathleen Beste’s kindergarten class at Hillcrest Elementary School last week. Chu retired from 3M about 12 years ago and was presented the company’s Community Volunteer Award for retirees. Photo by Charis Prunty/Register

• Chu, Shoup among few in nation this year to receive company’s volunteer award

BROOKINGS – Two Brookings volunteers received selective national recognition recently for their work in the community.

Alice Chu, a retiree, and Mark Shoup, a manufacturing manager, were recognized by their employer, 3M, with the Community Volunteer Award.

Only 15 active employees and 10 retirees from 3M plants throughout the United States are selected each year. Brookings has had only three recipients in the past: Verna Sturdevant, Shirley Peterson and Ron Deutsch. Recipients are selected by a panel of community leaders representing various types of non-profit organization.

The award comes with $1,000 to be donated to the recipients’ non-profit of choice. Shoup and Chu presented these checks Thursday to Hillcrest Elementary School and Boys & Girls Club of Brookings.



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