Somers Democratic Club
​2025 Annual Awards Dinner​:

June 19, 2025 @Mahopac Golf Club

2025 Honorees:

• ​Lifetime Achievement Award: Christine Robbins, Somers Democratic Town Committee Chair
• Distinguished Service Award: Richard Wishnie, Westchester Deputy County Executive
• Special Recognition: Heidi Cambareri, Former School Board Member
• Community Appreciation Award: Don Bleasdale, Somers Energy Committee
• High School Civic Award Winner: Sydney Carnow, Somers High School

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Somers Democratic Club
​2024 Annual Awards Dinner​:

June 15, 2024 @Mahopac Golf Club

2024 Honorees:

• Democrat of the Year: Amy Harwood
• Special Recognition Award – Keep Somers Beautiful Committee: Annie Gullen, President
• SDTC Chairman’s Award: Keri Reitman Schnapper
• Community Appreciation Award: Church of the Good Shepherd Food Ministry
• Distinguished Service Award: Judge Denis Timone
• Somers High School Civic Award Winner: Anthony Fusco

Somers Democratic Club
​2023 Annual Awards Dinner​:

June 15, 2023 @ Anglebrook Golf Club

2023 Honorees:​  

• Howard S. Pozmanter Democrat of the Year: Tom Newman
• Special Recognition: Melissa Benjamin
• Community Appreciation Award: Margaret DiLorenzo
• Somers Democratic Town Committee Chairman's Award: Karen Ondrovic

Christine Robbins presented the Somers Democratic Club Student Civic Award to SHS student Lindsay Gill

Amy Harwood presents the Special Recognition Award to Melissa Benjami, as Christine Robbins, Chair of the Somers Democratic Town Committee, and County Legislator Vedat Gashi congratulate her

Democrat of the Year, Tom Newman

Somers Democratic Club
​2019 Annual Awards Dinner​:

Somers Democratic Club
​2018 Annual Awards Dinner​:

2018 Honorees:​   

• Democrat of the Year: Jennifer Newman
• Special Recognition Award: Christine Chana
• Chairman's Award: Kathy Neggers
• Community Appreciation Award: Jack Mattes

 
Local Students Receiving Civic Awards:

• Somers Democratic Club Peggy Rush Community Service Award: Nicholas Cirillo 
  
• Somers Democratic Club Philip & Nettie Good Civic Award: Cassidy Goucher
  
• Somers Democratic Club Philip & Nettie Good Civic Award: Anne Burns
  
• Somers Democratic Club Philip & Nettie Good Civic Award: Ryan Goldstein
  
• Somers Democratic Town Committee Pearl C. Scher Citizenship Award: Olivia Soto

Somers Democratic Club
​2017 Annual Awards Dinner​:

Somers Democratic Club
​2016 Annual Awards Dinner​:

Somers Democratic Club
​2015 Annual Awards Dinner​:

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 @ Travelers Rest

2015 Honorees:

• Democrat of the Year: Helen Berman
• Special Recognition Award: Bernie & Barbara Rothman
  
• Chairman's Award: Leslie Jay Gould
  
• Community Appreciation Award: Somers Holocaust Memorial Commission
• Philip & Nettie Good Civic Award - Somers High School student: Caity Malisse
• Philip & Nettie Good Civic Award - North Salem High School student: Colette Franze
• Philip & Nettie Good Civic Award - Kennedy Catholic High School student: Tucker Clair
• Peggy Rush Community Service Award - SMS student: Timothy McCormack
• Pearl C. Scher Citizenship Award - SIS student: Kieran Brooks

Guest Presenters:

• Tim Idoni, County Clerk
• Reggie Lafayette, Westchester Democratic Chairman
  
• Michael Kaplowitz, County Legislature Chairman
• Richard Clinchy, Somers Town Board