A host of citizens and businesses were recognized as “Visionaries of Our Time” during The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce’s Distinguished Citizens Award Banquet at the Fort Dalles Readiness Center Thursday. The event also featured the Mid-Columbia Health Foundation’s philanthropy awards, previously awarded at a second annual banquet hosted by the foundation.

Columbia Basin Care has been awarded two top honors by the Oregon Health Care Association: Aubree Schreiner, executive director at Columbia Basin Care, has been named 2019 Administrator of the Year and Eunice Denudt, a volunteer who crochets blankets for Columbia Basin Care residents, has been awarded Volunteer of the Year.