Black Hills Hero Award History:

2008 - Event: Midwestern Legislative Conference
           Recipient: The Council of State Governments
           Accepted by Senator Mac McCracken

2007 - Event: Dakota Territory Buffalo Association
           Recipient: Scott Peterson and Chad Kremer

2006 - Event: Midwest Shrine Association 2005 Summer Session
           Recipient: Kent Larson & Gordon Parlet

2005 - Event: Post 22 American Legion Baseball
           Recipient: Dave Ploof

2004 - Event: LNI
           Recipient: Bryan Brewer

2003 - Event: SD State Dart Tournament & State 8 Ball Tournament
           Recipient: Britt Bruner & Lloyd Freidel

2002 - Event: Mt Rushmore Classic Fast Pitch Softball Tournament
           Recipient: Dan Martinez

2001 - Convention: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Annual Convention
           Recipient: Dr Wendell Peden

2000 - Convention: 35'" International Studebaker Drivers Annual convention
           Recipient: John Prodan

1999 - Convention: Technology & Innovation In Education Conferences
           Recipient: Dr Jim Parry

1998 - Convention: International Reading council - Great Plains Region
           Recipient: Betty Bowers + committee members

1997 - Convention: National Society of Professional Engineers/Consulting
           Engineers Council
           Recipient: Raye Jeanne Blundell

1996 - Convention: Wally Byam Caravan Club Int'l. Airstream Rally
           Recipient: City of Rapid City - Mayor's Office, Public Works Dept.,
           Rushmore Plaza Civic Center

1995 - Event: Central States Fair & Black Hills Stock Show
           (50th Anniversary of the Fair)
           Recipient: CSF/BHSS Board of Directors
         
1994 - Convention: Benevolent Patriotic Order of Does of the USA
           Recipient: BPO Does Drove #30 - Rapid City

1993 - Convention: World Wide Church of God
           Recipient: Dan Bierer

1992 - Conventions: American Fisheries Society & American Society
           of State Highway & Transportation
           Recipient: Arden Trandahl (AFS) & Dick Howard (ASSHTO)

1991 - Event: 50th Anniversary of t.he Completion of the Carving of Mt. Rushmore
           Recipient: Dan Wenk, National Park Service Carolyn Mollers,
           Mt. Rushmore Memorial Society

1990 - Event: Black Hills Motorcycle Rally (50th Anniversary)
           Recipient: BHMR Board of Directors