Randy Stabe of Hinton (left) and Clint Vos of Lawton (right) were given the Jefferson Award for their charitable public service.
(Le Mars) — Two area auctioneers were recently honored with the Jefferson Award for their charitable actions involving numerous non-profit organizations. Randy Stabe of Hinton and Clint Vos of Lawton were each given a gold medallion. The
Jefferson Award was created by former First Lady, Jackie Kennedy Onassis in 1972, and it is designed to honor those individuals that promote the spirit of giving back. Often times the Jefferson Award is referred to as the Nobel Prize for Public Service. Seaboard Triumph Foods is the sponsor of the award and each month, someone from the Siouxland area is nominated for their public service. Clint Vos says the dual auctioneers were nominated and selected based on their work with the Siouxland Boys and Girls Club.
Stabe says in the early 1990’s he had the idea of donating a pig to the Boys Club organization with the hopes that someone would purchase it through the fund raising auction. Stabe says since that first time, the money has ballooned.
Stabe says during some years the pig auction, along with other fund raising efforts would help raise more than a hundred thousand dollars for the Boys and Girls Club. Vos explains how the dual auctioneers got started helping the Boys Club.
It is not just the Siouxland Boys and Girls Club that the two auctioneers lend their talents for charitable organizations. In fact, Randy Stabe had some difficulty remembering all the organizations they help.
The two have the opportunity to be selected to represent the Siouxland area and be given a trip to Washington D.C. for the national Jefferson Awards ceremony.
