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ELDRED - The Upper Delaware Heritage Alliance (UDHA) held its 19th Annual Meeting and Heritage Awards Dinner on Sunday, October 1 at the Eldred Preserve. Among the recipients were, from left to right: Ron Schalk, accepting the NYS and National Historic Register recognition certificate for the Narrowsburg United Methodist Church; Wayne Stephens, for saving the 1911 Firehouse in White Mills; Debbie Fallon, Linda Vassmer and Vicky Vassmer Simpson, co-founders of the Bethel Woodstock Museum in Kauneonga Lake; Gloria McCullough, research librarian at Wayne County Historical Society; Annetta DeYoung, accepting on behalf of Ken Sproson for his coal car replica at the Chamber's Visitor Center in Honesdale; Sullivan County, Historian John Conway for a booklet publication; Merit Award winner Wellington Lester of Hancock and the Equinunk Historical Society; NYS Preservation Award winners Donald and Edith Downs, for rehabilitating an ice house in Long Eddy; Ralph Huebner, accepting the NYS and National Historic Register recognition certificate for the Tusten Settlement Association; City of Port Jervis Mayor R. Michael Worden, recipient of the UDHA Tom Hill Award for Excellence in Public Service; and PA Preservation Award winners Gardie and Kurt Mueller, for restoration of the Sandercock House in Equinunk.