By Foundation for Carson City Parks and Recreation
The Parks Foundation is saddened to learn of the passing earlier this week of Sandy Osheroff, the Foundation’s longtime Treasurer.
Parks Foundation president, David Johnson, announced on Friday that the Foundation’s Board of Directors, continuing the Foundation’s practice of recognizing outstanding contributions in furtherance of Carson City’s parks, recreational facilities and open space, designated Sandy Osheroff as the “2020 Volunteer of the Years” at their December meeting.
Sandy was so recognized because of her unflagging and longtime support for the Foundation for Carson City Parks and Recreation, as well as for other community organizations, including the Friends of the Carson City Library, and the Carson Animal Services Initiative (CASI). Accordingly, Sandy’s name will be added to the Wall of Honor in Mills Park and formally recognized at the Foundation’s Community Awards Ceremony on July 15th as part of Carson City’s National Parks Month activities.
The Foundation wants Sandy’s family to know how much they will miss Sandy, and how much they appreciate what she did for our community over the years. Sandy was a solid, consistent, persistent, and dedicated supporter of the organizations with which she was involved. Unlike many others, Sandy neither sought the spotlight, nor public recognition; rather Sandy labored in the background to further those causes and organizations in which she believed, and which make Carson City a better community for all who live here.
We valued and were humbled by Sandy’s dependability, her integrity, and her upfront and candid manner; moreover, we are awed by the size of the shoes that we now have to fill; shoes, we might add, that are way out of proportion to her physical stature.
Our love and condolences go out to Sandy’s family.
