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24- Karat Gold Challenge

2011 Winner – Gary Horton, Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company (AngloGold Ashanti)

The “24-Karat Gold Challenge Award” will be handled in the following way:

• At this year’s fall award ceremony, the Gold Leader Champion will be honored with the “24-Karat Gold Challenge Award” to be displayed at their facility for a one-year term. 
• At the next annual award’s ceremony, the Gold Champion will return the award in good order, so that it may be handed over to the next facility who may win (unless the past year’s champion “wins” it again). 
• The award is to remain a challenge competition and will not become the property of any one facility, even if won more than once. 

Gary Horton, Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company (AngloGold Ashanti) Submittal

A Community Garden in Victor, Colorado, has been established by Gary Horton - Environmental Coordinator at Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company ("CC&V"). Gary has received monetary support from CC&V, but most of the work has been on his own time. Gary's vision for the garden is two-fold: (1) Create an attractive place where citizens can grow healthy food, and (2) Provide a place where local folks can congregate and share gardening ideas or simply "contemplate" a unique environment.

In addition to the Community Garden, Gary Horton has been instrumental in fostering CC&V's Employee Recycling Program, which provides for all employees a choice of two locations to bring their household recyclables. The effort is single-stream, and that has provided a terrific incentive by making separation of recyclables a moot point. Approximately 10 tons of household wastes were collected in 2010 through this program. Also, working with the Victor Community, Gary Horton initiated a June 2011 tire recycling event which resulted in the collection of 580 tires--100 were taken by a local resident for personal landscaping and 480 were shipped to Eco- Cycle for energy recovery.

Past Award Winners:
2006 Vail Resorts
2007 Roche Colorado Corporation
2008 Denver International Airport
2009 Goodrich Corporation AWB, Carbon Operations
2010 Aircraft Service International Group (ASIG)

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