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The June Ordinary Hero Award goes to Aaron Coates
Nominated by Claudia Schafer who provided this story:
My ordinary hero nomination is Aaron Coates:
Aaron Coates. While teachers are heroes in almost anyone’s opinion, Aaron Coates goes above and beyond normal expectations. Aaron Coates is a choir director at Zionsville Community High School. He has made countless impacts on the students that have entered his classroom. He spends hours outside of class, writing music for his choirs to perform. Students leave his classroom with a smile on their face and knowing that they have a mentor that cares for them as an unique individual.
Aaron Coates is also a co-director of both show choirs at ZCHS, the Royalaires and Choralaires. He spends hundreds of hours each year at extracurricular rehearsals for these choirs. His hard work transfers to the success of the group as they are known nationwide in the show choir community. At the end of the year the show choirs have a banquet where both directors are recognized for their amazing commitment to their students. Seniors are given the opportunity to speak in front of their peers about the effects the show choir has had on them. A common theme of these speeches is how extraordinary of a man and educator that Aaron Coates is.
He is much more than an Ordinary Hero because of the dedication he has to his students and the life lessons that he teaches through his classroom lessons.
Aaron's favorite flavor, Lemon Custard will be featured as The Scoop Ordinary Hero Flavor of the Month for the entire month of June.
10% of the proceeds from his flavor will go to Aaron's favorite charity: The National Kidney Foundation.
CONGRATULATIONS AARON AND CLAUDIA!!!!
june 2016
The May Ordinary Hero Award goes to Lynn Eriks!
Lynn was nominated by Nicole Adams who provided this story:
My ordinary hero nomination is Lynn Eriks
On June 3rd, 2015 Lynn Eriks was more than a hero, she was our guardian angel. We were headed to the airport for our summer vacation when we were involved in a horrible accident that left us injured and needing to be transported to the hospital by ambulance. The only problem was that our van was totaled, and it had our suitcases in it for our trip along with our dog since we were taking her to be boarded on the way to the airport.
As God would have it, our close friend, Lynn Eriks, was the first one on the scene. She immediately came and prayed over my children and I as we lay in pain and shock. Then, before I knew it she was loading up our suitcases in her vehicle and taking our dog to the vet to be checked out. Lynn's presence at that very moment not only helped to calm a traumatized mother, but it allowed my husband and I to ride in separate ambulances with our children. Without her stopping and tending to us, we would have had to ride in 3 separate ambulances leaving one of our kiddos alone for the ride, and we would have had to figure out something to do with our dog and our luggage. I am so thankful for Lynn and for God placing her on that street at the exact moment that He did! For these reasons, Lynn Eriks is our hero and we will always be thankful for what she did for our family.
Sincerely,
Nicole Adams
Lynn's favorite flavor, Scoop Tracks (moose tracks) ice cream will be featured as The Scoop Ordinary Hero Flavor of the Month for the entire month of May.
10% of the proceeds from her flavor will go to Lynn's favorite charity: International Justice Mission.
CONGRATULATIONS LYNN AND NICOLE!
May 2016
APRIL 2016
Our first The Scoop Ordinary Hero award (April, 2016) went to Bob Haimbaugh and a donation is being made to the Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation.
It was not hard to pick my brother, Bob Haimbaugh, who died in February 2010, to be our first Ordinary Hero. He has been my hero my entire life, and to honor his spirit and continue his legacy just seemed like the natural thing to do.
The Scoop’s mission statement came from Bob: To Make others feel better about themselves, Zionsville, or the world in just one scoop.
Bob always made everyone feel so special. He always made others feel wonderfully and beautifully made and celebrated the differences in others race, religion, social or economic backgrounds.
The essay written by third grader, Andrew Demaree in 2002, shows us how much of a hero Bob was.
A hero is a person who is a good leader and has a great attitude. It is someone who stands up for me, is kind and teaches me about life. A hero is someone who would be willing to go through anything for anyone.
My hero is my uncle. He is a quadriplegic. He is a good role model for my three brothers and me. He has taught me to love life and to love God.
He became paralyzed when I was 7. My uncle fell from a tree stand and landed on his neck. He is paralyzed from the chest down but is able to use his arms. He is not able to use his fingers.
Even though this was a terrible tragedy he continues to go on with his life. He can still shoot a bow and arrow with special equipment. He can drive a special van. He is married and is a father to three children.
Uncle Bob goes to schools, churches and the hospitals to teach others about God. My uncle once came to our school with his new friend. His friend use to be a drug dealer and got shot 8 times. They taught our class not to drugs and how drugs can lead to a bad life.
Uncle Bob helps people become enthusiastic about still being a live. He is a good example of a strong believer in God. He prays to him every morning to help him with his day. He doesn’t blame God for his accident. He takes life as a challenge just like a sport.
He has made a difference in my life and in my family’s life. And that’s my ordinary hero, Bob Haimbaugh.
By Andrew Demaree, 2002 Eagle Elementary (Third Grade)
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