Positively Milwaukee Awards: Hear from winners selected by the community

It’s an evening stuffed with magic, studded with the celebrities of our group!

The Positively Milwaukee Awards is our alternative to honor the folks in our space who’re beneficiant, inspiring and uplifting.

Cassandra McShepard spoke to fairly just a few winners forward of the large ceremony, together with Mercedez Butts, whose aunt gained the Legacy Award.

“Be true to your self, don’t lose sight of what you actually consider in,” Butts says. “There are folks on the market who do wish to assist you to, however you need to assist your self! Present up and present out.”

Cassandra additionally spoke to our Unsung Hero of the 12 months, Andre Ellis – you is likely to be acquainted with his We Bought This Backyard.

“What I’ve realized concerning the soil and planting meals and the medicinal wants of it, and the way it’s altering the group… put their fingers within the soil and it helps them hold their fingers off the set off of a gun,” Ellis says.

As grateful as we’re for every part our award winners do for the group, they have been grateful to be honored.

“We by no means anticipated to be honored or awarded,” says Jackson Darr, one of many Inspiring Youth award winners. “We have been simply actually grateful and humbled to be receiving this award.”

“I simply suppose any act of kindness or any approach that you may give again to your group in any respect is simply necessary and wonderful to do,” added his sister Mia.

Each certainly one of our Positively Milwaukee Awards winners was nominated by you, the viewers!

Don’t miss the Positively Milwaukee Awards – airing Thanksgiving Day at 4:00PM.

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