In addition to maintaining our Bee City-Carlinville facebook page, working on our website, keeping up with news relevant to our mission (and communicating it one and all), organizing events for us throughout the year, and serving as liaison with the Carlinville Tree City group and the local Master Gardeners, Kathy Ruiter works daily and tirelessly with Blackburn’s Bee Campus and Tree Campus groups. She is the core liaison for our strong connection with those campus organizations and the college’s Sustainability program.
Earlier this month we learned that Kathy was awarded Blackburn’s Alumni Achievement Award at Homecoming for these and many other contributions she makes to the campus community.