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Five winners named for MLK
Awards
By JERRY DANIEL REED / Senior Staff Writer
A lady who wears a lot of hats and a young man who's fought
many personal battles are among the five winners of the Martin
Luther King Jr. Awards for 1997.
The five will be honored at the annual Martin Luther King Jr.
Awards program at Abilene Civic Center this afternoon.
Neomia Banks, known for the great variety and number of stylish
hats in her wardrobe, also has earned recognition for hiring and
promoting employees without regard to gender, race, age or national
origin. Her State Farm insurance agency was picked for the King
award for businesses with fewer than 50 employees.
First National Bank, headed by president Scott Dueser, won
the award for employers of more than 50 workers.
Stacy Kirk, whose gritty struggle to overcome paralysis left
by a football injury inspired an entire city, will be honored
as the Worker of the Year with a Disability.
After Kirk's fourth neck vertebrae was broken in the Wylie-Breckenridge
high school football game of Sept. 8, 1989, he spent most of the
next year doing intense rehabilitation at a Dallas hospital. Then
he returned home to continue his education plus his determined
quest to walk again.
The 1991 Wylie High graduate and 1996 McMurry University graduate
works at Lee Medical Supply.
Willie L. Cooper, who works at the recreation center at Dyess
Air Force, will be honored with the Human Services Individual
Award.
The Human Services Organization Award goes to the West Central
Texas Alliance of Black School Educators.
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