So, to some extent, it’s slightly subsidized.” “The pilot pays for everything for these Angel Flights, no reimbursement. “If you’re going to be a pilot, be a safe pilot, you need to fly a reasonable amount,” he said. Initially, he admitted, his involvement with the organization wasn’t done completely for altruistic reasons. He’s since been added to Angel Flight’s board of directors. He’s also served, for the past 12 years, as a pilot in the Angel Flight East program, which flies seriously ill patients across the country for free in order to receive the life saving treatment they need. Outside of his work with the township, Stoebenau serves as a board member of the Woodbridge Meadow Home Owners Association. “When I look at some of the previous recipients, I’m in good company.” “I’m still somewhat floored by it,” he said. Township Manager Larry Comunale had called to say he wanted to discuss with Stoebenau the future of the municipal authority, but actually just needed an excuse to bring him into the township building to give him the good news. The 70-year-old retired engineer at Rohm and Haas said he learned he’d been named this year’s honoree under somewhat false pretenses. “I’m on what’s known as the municipality board the more colloquial term is the sewer authority. “It’s basically the Citizen of the Year out of the people who volunteer for township positions on various boards,” Stoebenau said of the award. Stoebenau was honored at the township’s annual volunteer banquet at the William Penn Inn Nov. Lower Gwynedd >Sometimes it takes a guy like Hank Stoebenau to remind us what a meaningful change we can make in this world by volunteering in our community.įrom his work on the Lower Gwynedd Municipal Authority Board, to his time spent in the air transporting sick patients to the treatment they desperately need, Stoebenau’s commitment to serving his community is proof enough as to why he was named this year’s Lower Gwynedd Citizen of the Year.
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