{"id":96097,"date":"2018-07-31T17:45:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=96097"},"modified":"2018-07-31T11:15:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:15:47","slug":"the-arc-of-madison-cortland-presents-founders-humanitarian-award-to-cathy-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=96097","title":{"rendered":"The Arc of Madison Cortland presents Founders Humanitarian Award to Cathy Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David is a Janitor at Crouse Community Center (left) who works closely with Cathy Merkel daily.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Arc of Madison Cortland presents Founders Humanitarian Award to Cathy Merkel<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Arc of Madison Cortland presented the Founders Humanitarian\u00a0Award to Cathy Merkel who works at Crouse Community Center in Morrisville.<\/p>\n

Merkel\u00a0was unable to attend The Arc of Madison Cortland Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony June 7, so with the help of Executive Director DJ Raux of Crouse Community Center, The Arc\u00a0of Madison Cortland delivered the award to her.<\/p>\n

Merkel not only supports people with disabilities through employment opportunities but\u00a0she offers assistance to people in need to help them succeed beyond their workplace.<\/p>\n

\u201cCathy is\u00a0committed to making sure the people she works with not only succeed in their employment, but\u00a0they succeed in life,\u201d said Ashley\u00a0Hillenbrand, director of employment services at The Arc of Madison Cortland. \u201cIn fact, she looks out for everyone\u2019s health, safety and best interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the years, Merkel has offered emotional support during challenging times in her\u00a0employee\u2019s lives, has helped find safe housing, has taught them vocational and life skills and has\u00a0literally saved lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love my job, the people I work with, and I wouldn\u2019t trade it for\u00a0anything\u201d Merkel said. \u201cIt is an honor to receive this award.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Arc of Madison Cortland is grateful for Merkel\u2019s commitment to the employees she\u00a0supervises and for her dedication, compassion and for enriching the lives of people with\u00a0disabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Founders Humanitarian Award is one of the most distinguished awards\u00a0presented by our agency, said Arc Executive Director Jack Campbell. “We thank Cathy for embodying the mission and guiding principles\u00a0of The Arc of Madison Cortland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Arc of Madison Cortland presents Founders Humanitarian Award to Cathy Merkel The Arc of Madison Cortland presented the Founders Humanitarian\u00a0Award to Cathy Merkel who works at Crouse Community Center in Morrisville. Merkel\u00a0was unable to attend The Arc of Madison Cortland Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony June 7, so with the help of Executive Director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-oZX","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_4608_Web.jpg?fit=1500%2C1000&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}