{"id":19466,"date":"2019-10-18T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/ken-fucik-named-grand-lake-citizen-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:21:00","slug":"ken-fucik-named-grand-lake-citizen-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/ken-fucik-named-grand-lake-citizen-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Fucik named Grand Lake Citizen of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ken Fucik, left, talks with students from Grand Crew on Tuesday night after receiving the Grand Lake Citizen of the Year award. He works with the students at his Wooden Boat School, one of his many community projects.<\/strong>
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Corey Martens had driven past the Wooden Boat School in Grand Lake many times. One day, he finally stopped by to see what it was all about. Inside, he met Ken Fucik, who outlined his vision for the school to Martens.<\/p>\n

After months of volunteering with Fucik, Martens was approached to nominate someone as Grand Lake Citizen of the Year and his choice was clear. He described seeing this community vision come to life during Fucik\u2019s award banquet on Tuesday at the Daven Haven.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just dawned on me one day, what\u2019s happening here is exactly what Ken detailed to me when I first met him,\u201d Martens said. \u201cThrough his passion of wooden boats, he wants the community to be able to come together and that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wooden Boat School is only a small part of Fucik\u2019s community involvement. He works with students from Middle Park High School at the boat school, serves on the Heart & Soul Committee and Grand Creatives Board. He also volunteers at Rotary bingo nights and pancake breakfasts, helps out at the Grand Lake Area Historical Society and even assisted with developing a watershed grant for the Colorado headwaters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure how many hats he actually wears,\u201d said Dave Troutman, treasurer of the Rotary Club and good friend of Fucik.<\/p>\n

The Rotary Club of Grand Lake sponsored the award selection, which honors a citizen each year that exemplifies service before self. Rotary members cannot nominate the Citizen of the Year, and the nominee cannot be a member of the Rotary Club.<\/p>\n

Bob Scott was part of the committee of previous award recipients who selected the Citizen of the Year from these nominees.<\/p>\n

\u201cKen has done so many good and positive things, including charitable work,\u201d Scott said. \u201cHe serves with two different groups that are promoting the economy of Grand Lake. And, believe me, we need that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students Fucik works with at his boat school surprised him that evening to attend the banquet. Called the Grand Crew, these students work with Fucik as part of an alternative school program that features hands-on craftmanship in unique internships and projects like the boat school.<\/p>\n

James Craig, a junior at Middle Park, has been a part of the Crew program for almost three years and learned from Fucik.<\/p>\n

\u201cKen is a great guy, awesome guy,\u201d Craig said. \u201cHe loves teaching us how to do things and it\u2019s a real passion for him with the boats. He brings his passion and gives it to other people, shows them what he knows. He loves to do it and he loves to give.\u201d<\/p>\n

While accepting the award, Fucik said it was a shame Rotary members couldn\u2019t be nominated, because he felt their contribution to the community rivaled his.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of you guys deserve an award,\u201d Fucik said.<\/p>\n

Fucik described the award as an honor, but he also said he felt like it set a higher standard for his already considerable community involvement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt scares the heck out of me,\u201d Fucik said. \u201cBecause I look around, I see so many people who do so much in this community. It puts pressure on me to try even harder.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ken Fucik, left, talks with students from Grand Crew on Tuesday night after receiving the Grand Lake Citizen of the Year award. He works with the students at his Wooden Boat School, one of his many community projects.Amy Golden \/ agolden@skyhinews.com Corey Martens had driven past the Wooden Boat School in Grand Lake many times. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 02:25:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}