Front-desk volunteer recognized for work with group's clients

What: Ben’s Bells promote kindness and community involvement. Each week a person who makes Tucson better is “belled.”

Last week’s recipient: Doug Koppinger.

Nominated by: Emmanuelle Fahey.

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Why: For his dependable volunteerism. For the past six years, he has volunteered at the International Rescue Committee. “He has maintained his role of Tuesday afternoon open house front desk administrator with near-perfect attendance,” Fahey wrote in her nomination letter. Koppinger has learned and remembered the names of hundreds of clients, managing the flow of non-English-speaking clientele in a small lobby setting with utmost professionalism and accuracy, Fahey wrote. “His consistency and dependability, as reliable as the rising of the sun, assures that IRC clients will be served, every Tuesday, with utmost efficiency and timeliness,” she wrote.

More info and to nominate someone: Go to bensbells.org/BellingForm to submit a name. Go to bensbells.org or call 622-1379 for more information.