Yvette Gunther-Wilson
The Colorado AARP Bi-annual meeting and award ceremony was held at the Arvada Center for Performing Arts on Friday, October 2, with over 100 hundred volunteers and community agencies gathered to celebrate the success of outstanding individuals and organizations. Volunteers from AARP Tax-Aide, Driver Safety, Senior Community Employment service and Life Reimagined were celebrated! The highlight for the event awarded Andrus Award to Yvette Gunther. Yvette Gunther is the epitome of energy, of life reimagined, of taking action, and a model of the can-do attitude. To know Yvette is to bask inside a glimpse of what happens when someone truly uses what she has to live an abundant life. And through it all, she has done so much for others. To that end, AARP Colorado is proud to announce Yvette Gunther of Highland Ranch as its 2015 Andrus Award Winner, the highest honor an AARP volunteer can achieve.
Yvette won the award for her intensive volunteer involvement with AARP. Among her many accomplishments, she and her husband founded 2 new AARP chapters; one in Castle Rock in 2007 and the other in Parker in 2012. Yvette has been volunteering for many years for AARP since she retired from Denver Public Schools as an elementary school teacher.