The Coastal Monitoring Network's web site is located at www.watchthewater.org. The network won the top award for the County of Los Angeles' 17th Annual Productivity and Quality Awards program, The Golden Eagle Award. The award was presented after the Los Angeles County Quality and Productivity Commision viewed and judged 118 county projects that applied for the award.The program also won a Top Ten Award and the Performance Measurement Award.

Kathryn was a key player in the dynamic development team that built this award winning program. She supplied the graphics and the branding for the public web site and two private lifeguard web sites that are part of the program. She also provided print graphics for use on the beaches and a custom font.

To learn more about this award, and the competition, click here. See a copy of the web page Kathryn made for the commission to put up on their web site.
http://qpc.co.la.ca.us/17th_pqa.htm

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The Golden Eagle Award

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The Team with Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, in tan, and Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors Executive Director, Stan Wisniewski to her left. Standing to his left in the back is Dan Wenger, our Cold Fusion specialist. Chief Frazer is standing to Kathryn's right, Michael Bateman, the project leader, is standing to the Chief's right.

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A Special Award presented to Kathryn
from the Los Angeles County Fire Department
Lifeguard Division

"Kathryn St.Amant is hereby acknowledged for
numerous and significant contributions to the
Coastal Monitoring Network
and the
County of Los Angeles
Productivity and Quality Commission's
17th Annual Productivity and Quality Awards Program
Golden Eagle Award 2003"

April 2004 - Kathryn is honored for the second time with the 2003 Yacht Racing Union of Southern California's Yachtswoman Excellence Award.

In 1999 Kathryn was blown away when she found out she had won this prestigious award. She read the notification letter, then called the committee to be sure they didn't put someone else's letter in her envelope! The committee laughingly said, "No, you received the correct letter, congratulations!"

SCYRU Committee members presenting the award.

Kathryn with the perpetual and the take home trophies.

To receive it again was, she said, just beyond belief! If you were to look at the placques of past winners, you would note a Southern California "hall of fame" lisiting of women sailors, Olympian J.J. Isler among them. Those in the know, Kathryn jokingly noted, would point at the names with enthusiam. "Ohh, look who's here....Ohh, and see here..." Then, when they would see her name they would say..."Who the H>>L is THAT?"

All joking aside, The Yacht Racing Union of Southern California (YRUSC) is a racing association of 31 Southern California Yacht Clubs. YRUSC awards ten Perpetual Trophies each year. Two are for match racing, one is for youth racing and three are for ocean racing. The other four honors outstanding individuals for their excellent performance.

Site Built By Kathyrn, California Sailing Academy, Wins Award

TorontoSeeker.com's Seeker Business Web Award was bestowed upon CaliforniaSailingAcademy.com in December 2003. The award's objective is to provide recognition for the work of those business owners who strive to build a better Internet and practice safe and honest business transactions.

The award is bestowed upon sites that are user Friendly, Informative, Unique, and the online consumer must benefit from visiting the website.

The Seeker Business Web Awards is a leader in recognizing and rewarding those business websites which meet or exceed expectations. in various categories. They do not rate or post awards to sexually explicit, racist, or violent websites.

2001

Public Service Lights Our LIves
Best of Theme
Best Lights

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2002
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
Best Spirit

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2003
Bubble Dreams
Best Yacht Club
Best Sail

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