MEDIA RELEASE

 

 

May 30, 2019

 

For information, contact Adrienne Carrico at 270-687-8561 or carricoar@owensboro.org.

 

OWENSBORO BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

WILL PRESENT CARNEGIE MEDAL TO

TAMI WAHLER, WIFE OF COMMUNITY HERO STEVEN B. WAHLER

JUNE 4, 2019

 

The Owensboro Board of Commissioners are honored to present the Carnegie Medal to Tami Wahler, awarded posthumously to her husband Steven B. Wahler, for his heroic actions on October 9, 2017. Mr. Wahler was vacationing in Gulf Shores, Alabama, when the mother of a 12-year old boy asked him to help save her son from the rough waves of the Gulf of Mexico. With waves reaching up to five feet high, Mr. Wahler swam to the boy and managed to place him on a boogie board, and began pushing the board toward shore. The boy was able to make it back safely to shore, but sadly, Steven Wahler was carried farther away from shore and did not survive.

 

The Carnegie Medal presentation ceremony will take place during the June 4, 2019 Owensboro Board of Commissioner’s meeting at 5:00 p.m. in the Commission Chambers, located on the fourth floor of City Hall, 101 E. 4^th Street, Owensboro, KY. The public is encouraged to attend, to show honor and support to the family of a true hero.

 

The Carnegie Medal is given throughout the United States and Canada to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others. Over 10,000 medals have been awarded since the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission’s inception in 1904. Commission Chair Mark Laskow said each of the awardees or their survivors will also receive a financial grant. Throughout the more than 115 years since the Fund was established by industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, $40.8 million has been given in one-time grants, scholarship aid, death benefits, and continuing assistance.

 

 

 

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For more information about the City of Owensboro, please visit www.owensboro.org.

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