Help us find our Hawke's Bay Today Person of the Year

Mark Story, Deputy Editor Hawkes Bay Today and Russell Broughton General Manager Hawkes Bay Today with Flaxmere Boxing Academy head coach Craig McDougall, the 2013 Person of the Year.

Hawke's Bay Today is calling on all readers to start thinking about someone who has made a difference in our community or has achieved major success this year.

If you have someone in mind, we'd like to hear from you as the search for the Hawke's Bay Today Person of the Year 2014 selection process begins.

We want to find and honour an outstanding citizen. The criteria?

Someone who has made a significant contribution to the Hawke's Bay community in terms of charity, fundraising or other non-profit organisation.

Or someone who has achieved remarkable success in their chosen business, career or sport.

Or a local who has showed courageous or heroic actions.

Hawke's Bay Today editor Andrew Austin said the award, launched last year, was to recognise outstanding individuals.

"We have a wealth of special people to be proud of in the Bay," Mr Austin said. "Many of our people have achieved great things and done good work. Whether or not they have been recognised before, we want to honour them now."

Readers are invited to nominate who they think should be considered. A judging panel to choose the eventual winner will be confirmed soon.

Last year's winner, Flaxmere Boxing Academy head coach Craig McDougall, was voted in unanimously.

¦Please send your nominations with a few sentences explaining the reason for your nomination to editor@hbtoday.co.nz. The winner of the Hawke's Bay Today Person of the Year 2014 will be announced late next month.