NEAH BAY — Greg and Mary Ann Lovik, owners of Washburn’s General Store, recently celebrated National Disability Employment Awareness Month by hosting an ice cream cake social for their customers and honoring employee Franklin Ides.
They also celebrated their Employer of the Month Award from the Clallam County Health & Human Services Business Leadership Advisory Committee.
Presenting the award at the Oct. 23 celebration was Pam Leonard-Ray, a committee member and executive director of the Dungeness Valley Health & Wellness Clinic.
The Lovicks said Ides first came to them as a transition student through the high school but is now a permanent part-time employee.
The Lovicks were presented with a certificate of appreciation and a plaque to display.
Their business also was added to a plaque that will hang in the county courthouse at the end of the year along with the other 2015 recipients.
The Business Leadership Advisory Committee is a business-to-business network promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in the community and workforce.
For more information, visit www.clallam.net/HHS/HumanServices/blac.html.
Mary Cliffton, developmental disability case manager for Clallam County Health and Human Services, can connect employers to the various community employment providers and agencies should they be interested in hiring workers with disabilities.
