What: Ben’s Bells promote kindness and community involvement. Each week a person who makes Tucson better is “belled.”
Last week’s recipient: Pat Cheriton
Nominated by: Diana Chapin-Tsai
Why: For Cheriton’s work with cats at the Pima Animal Care Center. She is the resident “cat whisperer,” Chapin-Tsai wrote in her nomination letter. Cheriton is the person who deals with the most challenging and misunderstood cats. She quietly and modestly cares for them, never gives up on them and takes risks to help them. She stays “behind the scenes” and is not one for public recognition or self-promotion, Chapin-Tsai wrote. She stays late and works long hours, even “off the clock” to help, because she puts the cats’ welfare before her own. So often, her thoughtfulness and kindness goes unnoticed and she would rather have the cats be focused on than her own achievements. “Those who work with her know how much of a difference she makes in the cat, as well as human, community,” Chapin-Tsai wrote. “Pat has helped more cats in Pima County than anyone can even imagine.”
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.
