You know who they are. They work in your church or volunteer at the school. Maybe he or she picks up litter every week along the highway, or is the one who can always be counted on to shovel a sidewalk when someone else can’t. Or maybe it’s someone who volunteers on a board or commission or city council, putting in countless hours on behalf of the community.

The Star will honor the 2016 volunteer of the year in an upcoming issue and will publish your letters of nomination between now and then. We encourage you to think about those who give of their time and energy for the good of others, and to send in a letter about those good deeds as soon as possible.

Include details about their efforts, your contact information, and names of other people to contact about your nominee.

Nominations can be:

• dropped off at The Star, 3 Midway Ave. in Grand Coulee,

• mailed to Volunteer, P.O. Box 150, Grand Coulee, 99133, or

• emailed to star@grandcoulee.com.

Below is a list of those volunteers honored over the past 30 years.

1985 Marian Kessler

1986 Ken Hoke

1987 Elmer Rauch

1988 Gail Allen

1989 Orville Scharbach

1990 Nancy Armstrong-Montes

1991 Betty Roller

1992 Sid Saunders

1993 Rod Hartman

1994 Charlie Long

1995 Cathy Schrader

1996 Barbara Meyer

1997 Jerry Bainard

1998 Rodney Bise

1999 Del Ostenberg

2000 Ben Alling

2001 Bob Mueller

2002 Jerry Beierman

2003 Birdie Hensley

2004 none

2005 Chick Jackson

2006 Felix Marcolin

2007 Kathy Baty

2008 Darlene Morava

2009 Diane Canady

2010 Caroll Clune

2011 Jeanne Moon

2012 Eloise Bowman

2013 Jerry Birdwell

2014 Kathy Rice

2015 Glo Carroll