At the Annual Meeting of Denver Sister Cities International on January 30, 2020, the Denver Lions Club was presented with the Volunteer of the Year Award for the DSCI Mongolian Committee. Ned Nagle accepted the award on behalf of the Club. This was the first time an entire organization has received this award. The Denver Lions Club was nominated because of the humanitarian eyesight work during three different trips to Mongolia and for the collaboration and cooperation over several years with the Denver Sister Cities program. In addition to working in collaboration with the Denver Sister Cities delegation trip to Mongolia in 2017, volunteers from the student exchange program assisted the Denver Lions this past summer in Mongolia and contacts made through DSCI are the organizers of the new Lions organization in Mongolia. Lions Susy and Steve have also given presentations on Lions the past three years to the Mongolian exchange students when they were in Denver. An individual award was also given to Jargalsaikhan who was visiting Denver and was one of the first Mongolians to graduate from the Colorado School of Mines and who has been active on behalf of Denver Sister Cities.
In the picture of Ned with just the two others congratulating him, they are Jim Wagenlander, Chair of the Denver Sister Cities Mongolia Committee and Honorary Consul General for Mongolia and Devron Mcmillin, Chair of Denver Sister Cities International
