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Ogdensburg's United Helpers honors longtime board members for service at annual banquet

Posted 11/16/15

United Helpers CEO and Society of the United Helpers Board President Ed Gordon, right, congratulate Martha “Marti” MacArthur, center, after being named a recipient of the Jackie Hodges Award. …

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Ogdensburg's United Helpers honors longtime board members for service at annual banquet

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United Helpers CEO and Society of the United Helpers Board President Ed Gordon, right, congratulate Martha “Marti” MacArthur, center, after being named a recipient of the Jackie Hodges Award. MacArthur currently serves as a Management Company Board Member. 

Three United Helpers employees were honored this week with the Jackie Hodges award.

Martha “Marti” MacArthur, Wayne Ladouceur and William “Bill” Bradley (posthumously) were each honored at the Society of The United Helpers 2015 Annual Meeting.

MacArthur, who joined the UH family in 2002, is currently a member of the Management Company Board representing Canton Nursing Home a.k.a. Maplewood Campus.

She has served on the finance, planning, nominating, fund development and pension committees, as well as on the Management Company Board of Directors, spending 2012 as the board’s president.

MacArthur has also been an active member of several event committees including Harvest Dinners, the Clayton Horan Walk, Prediction Run/Walk, Spring Fling and Canton Capital Campaign. Donations to the Spring Fling include a rocking chair, as well as photographic canvases and post cards that were auctioned off to benefit the Society.

She was also instrumental in helping to secure the donation of her friend, Shirley Wells’ home to The Society. When the home was sold, proceeds to benefit the Society were nearly $180,000.

Ladouceur joined the UH family in 1991 and is a member of the Management Company Board representing United Helpers Nursing Home a.k.a. RiverLedge Campus.

He has served on the personnel, planning, nominating, finance, pension and quality assurance committees, as well as on the Management Company Board of Directors, serving as the board’s president from 2013 through May of 2015.

Ladouceur has also been an active member of several event committees including the Poker Run, Prediction Run/Walk and Spring Fling, where has been instrumental in helping to secure auction items for that event.

Bradley, who passed away earlier this year, had been a member of the UH family since 1986, serving on the Management Company Board as a representative for the Canton Nursing Home. At the time he joined the board, the Canton Nursing Home was known as Moongate. It has since been renamed Maplewood Campus.

He served on both the planning committee and Management Company Board of Directors, spending 1994 and 1995 as the board’s president.

He was also an active member of the Canton Capital Campaign and donated items to be auctioned at the Harvest Dinner and Spring Fling, often donating handcrafted note cards for both events. He also attended the Prediction Run/Walk each year.

The Jackie Hodges Award was created in 1995 to honor the legacy of Hodges, who had served on the society board since 1963. She would continue serving through 1998, giving her a total of 35 years the board.

According to Society By-laws, “This award is especially prestigious and is not to be given at any specific time. The award is to be given only in recognition of a member of the Society who has emulated Jackie Hodges’ commitment and contributions and has financially supported the society each year they served.”

Previous honorees include Cheryl Madlin, Frank Schwartz, Janet Stitt, Ed Norris and Becky Van de Water.