Dennis Green honored with Myrick Award

By Mike Lange
Staff Writer

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Economic Development Council (PCEDC) presented the annual Pete Myrick Community Service Award to a Brownville man who has served his town in several capacities for more than 30 years.

           Observer photo/Mike Lange

    COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD — Dennis Green of Brownville was presented with the Pete Myrick Community Service Award at Monday night’s annual meeting of the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council. Congratulating Brown is PCEDC President Sue Mackey Andrews.

    Dennis Green was honored by the council for “going above and beyond donating their time to community service,” said Brownville Town Manager Matt Pineo, who made the presentation.
    Green served on the Brownville Board of Selectmen for 30 years and is a member of the town’s volunteer fire department.
    In nominating him for the award, Brownville Elementary School Principal Lynn Weston wrote, in part, “On a personal level, I’m a Brownville resident and appreciate the decades of service he has devoted to his community. We could always count on him to step up and do what was needed and what was best for Brownville. He was also a big supporter of the recreation department which offers wonderful programs for our children.”
    In addition to his civic service, Green is a past master of the Pleasant River Masonic Lodge and a past district deputy for Maine’s 5th Masonic District, encompassing most of Piscataquis County. One of the lodge’s major projects is the Bikes for Books program, a reading incentive program for youngsters. He is retired from Great Northern Paper after 41 years of service.
    He has also served on the PCEDC executive committee, the Penquis Solid Waste Committee and “can even be found mowing cemeteries in neighboring communities whenever called upon by any organization,” Pineo said.
    Green, when asked to say a few words after the presentation, joked that anyone who has ever attended meetings with him “knows I don’t talk very much. But I’m very humbled. This is a great honor. People who started this program are just wonderful.”
    Greenville Town Manager John Simko said that during Green’s tenure on the PCEDC Executive Committee, “He was very reasonable, used common sense and anyone would enjoy serving on a board that has him on it.”
    County Commissioner Fred Trask added that when Green served on the county budget committee “he was fair-minded, listened to us; and when he has something to say, we listened.
    Warren “Pete” Myrick, a Guilford resident who died in 2002, was a longtime educator in SAD 4 and one of the founders of PCEDC, serving as the council’s president in 2001.

Observer photo/Mike Lange

    CONGRATULATIONS — Brownville Town Manager Matt Pineo, left, congratulates Dennis Green, recipient of the Pete Myrick Community Service Award. Green served on the Brownville Board of Selectmen for 30 years.