Artist-Photographer Poané Photographs Atlanta WXIA-TV 11Alive Community Service Awards

April 18, 2011 - PRLog -- Each year for the last 35 years, the 11Alive Community Service Awards (CSA) has honored 11 outstanding local volunteers who have demonstrated selfless devotion for the betterment of the community.  The event will be photographed by Atlanta-based artist and photographer, Poané.

“The 11Alive CSA is an inspiring event.  These folks have worked hard to improve the lives of people, and they deserve this recognition.  I am pleased and honored to be able to help document these local heroes and the event ,” said artist-photographer, Poané.

Each year the Community Service Awards dinner proceeds benefit a selected charity. Proceeds from the 2011 Awards dinner benefit Emory University's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC).  This year's proud sponsors of the CSA Awards include The Coca-Cola Company and UPS.

This year’s honorees are:
•   Ann Boriskie for creating, developing and implementing the Brain Injury Peer Visitor Program - http://www.braininjurypeervisitor.org/
•   Deidri Cumbie for providing leadership and support at Vision Rehabilitation Services of Georgia and serving as a volunteer to other non-profit and United Way agencies. http://www.vrsga.org/
•   Horace Dukes for founding Dukes Foundation, an organization mentoring at-risk boys and young men. http://www.dukesfoundation.org/
•   Gayle Gellerstedt for service to Our House, Inc. and for over 30 years of volunteer activity in the Atlanta community providing a voice in the community for those who do not have a voice of their own, particularly young children.
http://www.ourhousega.org/
•   Ho Su Kim for his volunteer work at The Center for Pan Asian Community Service, Inc., where he founded the Food Pantry program providing food assistance to families and seniors in need. http://www.icpacs.org/
•   Virginia Pearson for co-founding Operation Sandbox, a care package program, sending gifts to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.operationsandboxga.com/
•   Kevin Rathbun for his contributions to Open Hand, providing his talent, food, time, and staff in support of the organization's continued growth and success serving the community. http://www.projectopenhand.org/
•   Jeanne Spears for service with the Red Cross, volunteering, mentoring and recruiting nurse volunteers as well as serving as a Red Cross National Liason to the CDC.
http://www.georgiaredcross.org
•   Bert Weiss for founding Bert's Big Adventure, providing children with a chronic or terminal illness the opportunity to experience a weekend with their families at Disney World. http://www.bertsbigadventure.org/
•   Lisa Williams for founding Living Water for Girls, a residential therapeutic refuge for young girls who have been brutalized by commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking. http://www.livingwaterforgirls.org/

This year’s coveted Boisfeuillet Jones Award will be awarded to Ted Turner for his unprecedented global philanthropic work and significant contributions to the local and worldwide business communities. Turner founded the Turner Foundation, Captain Planet Foundation and Turner Endangered Species Fund to protect our planet and its inhabitants; the Nuclear Threat Initiative to close the growing and increasingly dangerous gap between the threat from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; and with Turner's historic $1 billion pledge, the United Nations Foundation supports the goals and objectives of the United Nations to promote a more peaceful, prosperous and just world.

11Alive News Anchors Brenda Wood and Ted Hall will host the prime time videotaping which will air on WXIA-TV, 11Alive and WATL-TV, myAtlTV.  For additional information or reservations, please contact Amy Holloway at 404.892.1611.

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About Poané:
A passion for people and art drives Poané; his dynamic energy is infectious. A versatile photographer and artist, Poané shoots nationally for organizations and corporations, and the entertainment, beauty and garment industries, He has choreographed events from runway shows, private parties to corporate gatherings. The full scope of his artistic vision finds form in fine art oil painting, limited edition prints, and fine art boudoir photography. Poané’s work is a lasting memory of the experience of working with the artist. Pure joy; Fine art! Visit us at www.poanestudiosonline.com and view his galleries at http://picasaweb.google.com/poaneb .