Meritorious Service Awards

Gas & Electric

• Amy Delk, contract management specialist
  Took a chocking victim to the hospital to be checked out after they received the Heimlich maneuver.
• Jack Nauman, line mechanic
  Helps extinguish car fire.
• Adam Hilgart, electric meter technician
  Assists at the scene of a high school fire.

Gas & Electric

• Derrick Shadwick, manager – transportation electrification and sustainability
  Assists driver with electric vehicle charging.
• Nick Choate, supervisor II operations
  Helped a customer get power back by paying for it himself.
• Jacob Kendall, construction operator III
  Assists with getting a woman to safety and changing a tire.
• Blake Atha, local maintenance
  Assists driver after vehicle lost control and rolled over.
• Jared Vandusen, crew foreman
  Saved a family from possible gas exposure.
• Jason Untiedt, pipefitter & Lary Lehman, pipefitters
  Pipefitters assist with a roadside accident.

Gas

• Phillip Rohl, journeyman gas technician
  Assists women with heat stroke.

Gas

• Dominique Westbrook, utility worker
  Assists car accident victims.

Gas

• Thomas (TJ) Brittain, lead field technician
  Goes above and beyond to problem solve a business customer’s CO exposure – it wasn’t at work, but at home.
• Ricky Stephen (Steve) Scheffel, gas meter regulator technician apprentice
  Assists injured utility worker who had fallen on ice.

Electric & Gas

• Terry Beckner, relief meter reader
  Assists at the scene of a roll-over accident.
• Cobey Johnson, gas serviceman
  Saves a passerby from a dog attack.
• Trace Johnson, line foreman & Scott West, line foreman
  Secures an accident scene and assists victim.

Electric

• Crew Members: Ricky Russelburg, Grayson Jones, Dustin Logan, and Jacob Jones
  Discover and assist a gunshot wound victim.

Gas & Electric

Minnesota Energy Resources (Gas)

• Nolan McGowan, field technician II
  Field technician helps young girl in distress.

We Energies (Electric)

• Jeb Loth, senior operations supervisor; Nic Streich, leading line mechanic (South); Jerimiah (JJ) Blosmore; Matthew (Matt) Mecikalski, line mechanic (South); Jonathan (Jon) Benish, line mechanic (South); James (Jim) Voith, line mechanic (South); Jacob (Jake) Grintjes, line mechanic (South); Quintin Bradford, line mechanic (South); Kurt Fredenberg, line crew leader (South)
  Returning We Energies crews help save a woman’s life.

Electric

• Joseph Rister, line troubleman
  Assists a child in medical distress with finding her medicine.

Electric

• Gordon McElhone, underground mechanic
  Assisted an elderly man with first aid.
• Michael Beall, Chicago north construction supervisor
  Provided assistance at a crash site.
• Chris Ziccarelli, sr. engineering tech
  Stopped an assault in progress by drawing attention and calling 911.
• George Anderson, sr supervisor – customer field operations
  Prevented someone from running into a low hanging power line.
• Levon Lawrence, construction crew leader; Doug Ford, construction crew leader; Matt Czerwinski, electric mechanic; Percy Adu-Asah, electric mechanic; Shawn White, electric mechanic; and Marcell Jennings, electric mechanic
  Found a young lost child and stayed with her until her father arrived.
• Steven Martin, sr energy tech and Jermaine Burton, energy tech
  Aided an elderly woman in distress.

Electric

• Ryan Pondinas, overhead electrician
  Blocks a serious road accident from oncoming traffic.
• Victor Beltran, crew leader
  Keeps an individual from coming in contact with energized lines after an accident.
• Jeff Marmo, senior maintenance inspector
  Notified a family and 911 about a garage fire.
• Jonathan Slavik, construction supervisor
  Finds a missing elderly man and waits with him until help arrives.
• Jeffrey Martinez, senior engineering tech
  Secures an accident scene and provides first aid to the wounded driver.
• Demetrius Mack, overhead electrical specialist
  Provides first aid at an accident scene.

Gas

• Paul Dalton, foreman
  Assists a man suffering from an epileptic seizure.
• Brett Baker, foreman; Cole Mathews, laborer; Brock Hendrix, laborer; and Justice Woods, laborer
  Assists with traffic control and give aid to the wounded at an accident scene.
• Ben Barnhart, foreman
  Calls 911 for a driver suffering from diabetic shock.
• Chris DeGrande, operator foreman; Darrel White, laborer; Cody Bloink, fuser; and Brad Depalma, laborer
  Save a boy from dog attack.
• Tommy Youngs, operator;  Austin Raney, laborer; Chad Peters, foreman; and Michael Cundiff, laborer
  Save a woman and her two dogs from another dog.
• Nathan Leath, sewer tractor lead
  Extinguishes an out of control fire and provides fire safety training to neighborhood kids.
• Trevor Hunt, sewer tractor lead and Caleb Scott, sewer laborer
  Block traffic for an elderly man who fell of a bike and provide first aid.
• Ryshen Dow, laborer and Mitchell Lyons, laborer
  Prevent an escaping toddler from running into a bell hole.
• David Shirley, regional safety manager
  Donates his recreational vehicle for use by medical personnel during isolation.
• Mark Edwards, traffic control
  Prevents a colleague from being pulled into a manhole.
• Joe Carey, foreman
  Finds autistic child playing near the road and brings him back to his family.
• Tyler Owen, foreman; Travis Russell, operator; Alexander Roland, foreman; Brad Russell, plumber; and Dustin Delozier, foreman
  Help an elderly woman get her car out of the ditch.
• Augusto Ribau, laborer
  Uses his vehicle to protect a car and its driver after an accident.

Gas

• Michael Olson, laborer; Chad Magoon, operator; and Paul Gatons, operator
  Use their safety training to assist a colleague who had lost consciousness.
• Lloyd Fondren, safety coordinator
  Helps get trapped woman out of a car after an accident.
• Duane Carlson, superintendent and John Chapman, foreman
  Assist a client who showed symptoms of a cardiac event.

• Steven Doen, senior engineering tech specialist
  Searches for and finds car accident woman, calls 911.
• Kevin Lonkar, electric mechanic
  Prevents a serious accident and keeps a drunk driver from leaving the scene.
• Gregory Mars, maintenance inspector
  Assists an elderly couple out of a burning building.
• Richard Martucci, senior commercial compliance investigator
  Successfully puts out a meter fitting fire.

• John Poling, foreman; Kogan Wilerson, Casey Forrester, and Marrisa Morris
  Puts out a car fire and assists the driver to safety
• James Stapert, foreman
  Assists elderly woman after she suffers a fall.
• Don Campbell, foreman; Russell Miller, foreman; Joe Santoriella, laborer; Robert Still, laborer; John Adkins, laborer; Nicholas Gilliam, laborer; and Peggy Duncan, laborer.
  Discover a burning home, work to clear the scene and call 911.

• Jean Paul Meyer, overhead electrician
• Kevin Powell, overhead electrician
• Nick Richardson, overhead electrician
• George Longoria, general service rep
• Larry Shank, general service rep
• Joel Rangel, transmission service helper
• Richard McClelland, supervisor information desk
• Scott Galasinski, sr engineering tech
• Kyle Cordone, overhead electrician starter
• Ryan Brady, overhead electrician
• Robert Goudie, sr. engineering tech

• Araceli Cobern, senior customer service associate

• Larry Juday, meter reader

• Jeremy Strickland, sr. measurement technician
• Ray McCrickard, measurement technician

• Armando Alcantar, crew leader
• Lavell Short, crew leader
• Michael Skrzyniarz, overhead electrician
• Brian Metzger, crew leader
• Michael Monaco, overhead electrician
• Matthew Tinsley, overhead electrician
• Jeremy Gladkowski, crew leader
• Roberto Celestino, overhead electrician
• Adam Bickel, overhead electrician
• Daniel Cooper, overhead electrician starter
• Hugo Castaneda, principle engineer
• Pablo Bonilla, crew leader

• Dan Ehlers, contractor

• Terry Thiel, gas utility mechanic