The Livingston County Board of Supervisors and Youth Bureau recently announced the winners of the 2022 Teen Recognition Awards.
These awards are earned by high school teens as young as 15 who are committed to community improvement, demonstrate leadership, or are role models for others because they have overcome personal challenges. They recognize youth in the community who subtly go about making the world around them a little more special through their actions and attitudes. Since 1995, over 1,800 youth have been recognized.
Mary Guldenschuh, Deputy Director of Livingston County Workforce Development and Youth Bureau, stated, “Relationships are the cornerstone of positive youth development. Therefore, these recognitions awards are not possible without the support of the nominators. Nominators come from a variety of places, including schools, churches, neighborhoods, civic organizations, and clubs.”
A “Black and White”-themed banquet is planned for Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. at the Willow Creek Venue in Lakeville. The event will be catered by Partyman Catering. Dr. Lauren Wadsworth, Geneseo’s 2002 Teen Recognition Award recipient, will be the keynote speaker. The certificates presented to the recipients will be provided by the offices of Senator Patrick Gallivan, Senator George Borrello, and Assemblywoman Marjorie Byrnes.
This year’s 95 recipients are listed on the following page. For more information on the 2022 Teen Recognition Awards, please call 585.243.6909 or visit https://www.livingstoncounty.us/370/Teen-Recognition.
| AVON | Ayla Ray | Molly Milliken | Elizabeth Smith |
| Sean Miron | Mallory Rice | Angela Tewksbury | Sterling Strain |
| Josephine VanRy | Eleanor Schiener | Logan Brooks | Emelye Wilkins |
| CALEDONIA | GROVELAND | MT. MORRIS | Raelyn Wilkins |
| Bernard Bazzett | Lauren Hanglow | Shayla Brown | Taylor Wilkins |
| Jacob Cappotelli | Daisy Sheldon | Valeri Garcia | OSSIAN |
| Montgomery Kessler | LEICESTER | Tyler Guzzardi | Trinity Cartwright |
| Mitchell Mattice | Christopher Battles | Matthew Hartigan | Collin Gray |
| Tyler McCowan | Leah Fisher | Anna Johnson | Tyler Harris |
| Taylor Mills | Kaitlyn Holland | Yujin Lin | Tiffany Young |
| Geordan Mitchell | LIMA | Chloe Mike | PORTAGE |
| Camden Reed | Olivia Blodgett | Emily Mike | Tyler Mallaber |
| Sawyer Richardson | Brody Burke | Gadge Savastano | Ryan Stevens |
| Kyle Wade | Emma Hoffman | Jesse Yorks | Julia Wilkins |
| CONESUS | Blake Petraitis | NORTH DANSVILLE | SPARTA |
| Sabrina Adamson | Elizabeth Van Dick | Maggie Bacon | Lindsay Flick |
| Emma Calkins | Leah Waterstraat | Abigail Belcher | Gavin Hart |
| Caleb Cogswell | LIVONIA | Samantha Mackey | Lucas Mensinger |
| Mollie Flanagan | Avery Bernard | Andrew Morrow | SPRINGWATER |
| Maryn Gammon | Brooklynne Boop-Ellis | DeShawn Owens | Ben Canute |
| Eliot Gavin | Beth Buehler | Jolin Qiu | Wyatt Mastin |
| Andrew Kranz | Grace Buys | Sidney Stone | Phoebe Parkison |
| Carly Lang | Grace Denney | NUNDA | WEST SPARTA |
| Lucas Stewart | Luke Fasso | Jocelyn Brick | Callie Little |
| GENESEO | Therome “TJ” Gause | Andrew James | YORK |
| William Chanler | Alyssa Healy | Gregory Loper | Riley Langenfeld |
| Regina Cucchiara | Autumn Janson | Jacob Main | Aiden Peffers |
| Madeline Geiser-Getz | Mia Martucio | Reese Powers | Jonathan Schofield |
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