SADOE President Willie Puchert was featured cover story in the August edition of Celtic Life Magazine on how Celtic Festivals are recovering from COVID.

Puchert serves on the local Celtic Celebration Board as its secretary and as well as the festival’s publicist. To read the article, flip to page 53 of the this link.

Unfortunately, the Northern Nevada Celtic Celebration was cancelled this year  due to lack of startup funds from the pandemic and instead, the board opted to hold a Celtic Concert & Ceilidh on May 21. The festival’s board is in the process of dissolution. The SADOE Board will consider “inheriting” the festival in a more limited capacity at an upcoming meeting.

SADOE Member Courtney Meredith was recognized last month by the American Marketing Association (Reno Chapter) as this year’s Marketer of the Year.

Courtney and her husband Chris Meredith’s ad agency Design on Edge also won  Best in Illustration their work with the The Reno Philharmonic. They are pictured above on the right along with their employees to the left.

Their agency received eight ADDY Awards in March for video, illustration, web design, editorial design and annual report design, following a national award recognition  for excellence in package design. This followed the announcement of being selected as this years Creative Organization of the Year from the Nevada Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, and a top 5 finalist in RGJ’s Best of Reno awards.

Courtney also won the Silver Thistle (Scot of the Year) Award from our Scottish cousins in the Nevada Society of Scottish Clans back in January and is a past recipient of SADOE’s Irish Person of the Year. We wish both Courtney and Chris congratulations on all of their success this year.