Patrick Leahy: “Allen Gartner is one of Vermont's real citizen treasures. He was recently honored by the Rutland Region Chamber of…”

“Allen Gartner is one of Vermont's real citizen treasures. He was recently honored by the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce on their 100th anniversary. The whole Gartner family represent the best of Vermont and Marcelle and I value their friendship. My mother was wrong. She always told me that if I wanted something done right, I should do it myself. What I learned a little later in life was that if I REALLY wanted something done right, I needed to ask Allen Gartner to do it. Allen personifies Rutland--his love of his family, his sense of the broader community, his deep spirituality, and his sense of the broader community of which we are all a part. Most important for his friends in Rutland and all over Vermont is an indomitable sense that if you work hard enough, and if your cause is just, anything is possible. It is fitting that Allen is honored by a group as respected as the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce. But Allen, by the life he leads, the work he does and the joy he brings to others, honors all of us every single day.”