United Way of the Greater LV names award winners

United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley announced the award recipients for this year’s 2017-18 campaign awards, recognizing individuals and corporations who excelled in their contribution to the community through giving, volunteering and advocating.

The organization will present awards on April 18 at DeSales University in Center Valley.

The 2017-18 award recipients include:

• Air Products — LIVE UNITED Award

• St. Luke’s University Health Network — Campaign Chairman’s Award

• Miller-Keystone Blood Center — Air Products Leonard Pool Impact Award

• IBEW Local 375 — Labor Achievement Award

• ASR Media Productions — Community Building Award

• Mike Molewski — Campaign Volunteer Award

• Trisha Higgins — Carbon County Champion Award

• Maeve Yanes — TeenWorks “Making a Difference” Award

• Valerie Lane — Women United “Betsy Torrence Philanthropist of the Year” Award

The event will be hosted by Emmy Award-winning executive producer and president of ASR Media Productions, Ashley Russo, and feature Mike Kelly and Steph Wells of B104’s Mike & Steph in the Morning.

Community partners in sponsorship for this year’s event include:

• Presenting sponsor — Dual Temp Company Inc.

• Gold sponsor — Crayola

• Bronze sponsors — Brown-Daub Dealerships, Highmark Blue Shield, Just Born Inc., Lafayette Ambassador Bank, lehighvalleylive.com and The Express-Times

• Media sponsors — UGI Utilities Inc.

• In-kind sponsors — Allentown Beverage, AmericaVen, Anthony Limousine, ASR Media Productions, KLO Events, RichMar Florist, Volpe’s Sports Bar, Working Dog Press

United Way’s Celebration of Caring honors and recognizes the generous contributors who support children, families and seniors in the Lehigh Valley through education, healthy aging, food access, and emergency services.

To purchase tickets and reserve a spot online, visit www.unitedwayglv.org/UWCelebrates, email UWCelebrates@unitewayglv.org or call 610-758-8010.