I’m privileged to announce that Glen Lake hall-of-fame basketball coach Don Miller has been chosen as the Owen Bahle Award for Service recipient by the Suttons Bay-Leelanau Rotary Club. It’s basically a “person of the year” selection for Leelanau County.
A banquet in Don’s honor is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, at the Leland Lodge. Tickets will be available here at the Leelanau Enterprise, from Rotarians, and by calling Chet Janik who can be reached at (231) 633-7680. For folks who know Don, please consider attending.
For those who are learning about Don Miller for the first time, you’ll find plenty of material online about his success in molding young people both on and off the basketball court. Although he’s been retired for 20 years, that work continues. As part of the nominating process for Rotary I wrote a column about Don’s work with the scholarship committee of the Leelanau Prospectors Club, which follows.
