Winter is a special time at our firm, as we hold our annual awards celebration. On Saturday, February 3rd, we gathered at the Mountain View Grand Resort in Whitefield and enjoyed a wonderful dinner, we presented some awards, danced the night away and even enjoyed some time in the photo booth! Our arrival on Saturday was epic, as the morning clouds had cleared and we enjoyed panoramic mountain views in the afternoon! The location served as a great meeting place for all of our offices from Berlin/Gorham to Holderness, Littleton to North Conway.

Andy Smith, our Broker/Owner of Badger Peabody & Smith Realty said, "Our annual gala for our agents and staff is a real hightlight of the year, and we are so pleased to recognize our agents and staff for the many ways they help their clients and customers, help each other and recognize the good they do in the community as well."

The Residential Sales Associate of 2023 was presented as a highlight of the evening. We award the top agent at each office and this award is awarded to the top agent of all the offices. This year the Residential Sales Associate of 2023 was presented to Kathleen Sullivan-Head of our Jackson office. Kathleen has been in real estate for over forty years specializing in being a local source with valuable Mount Washington Valley & western Maine real estate experience. Kathleen strives for a high level of service & effective real estate brokerage to both sellers and buyers. Congratulations Kathleen!We also recognized the top agents for each of the other offices.

Berlin/Gorham, NH - Don Lapointe

Bretton Woods, NH - Michele Penner

Franconia, NH - Keegan Rice

Holderness, NH - Jackie Elliott

Jackson, NH - Kathleen Sullivan-Head

Littleton, NH - Nikki Barrett

North Conway, NH - Kevin Killourie

Plymouth, NH - Aaron Woods

Other awards included:

Mt. Madison Level sales achievement awards to: Sean Carroll, Daren Levitt, Peter Pietz, Paty Ciotto, Linda Matheson, Karla Badger, Jeff Gagnon, Ed O'Halloran, Rachael Brown, Eric Turchon, Kate Frisk, Shamar Whyte, Steve Gorman, Victoria Kidder, Vespar Duffy, David Cianciolo, Maggie Jones, Nubian Duncan, Jason Cape & Matthew Penner.

Mt. Monroe Level sales achievement awards to: Bernadette Donohue, Tara Peirce, Fran Matott, Linda Walker, Zach Hawkins, Anne Foss, Ralph Cronin, Mary Doherty, Karen Walsh, Patty O'Brien, Tiffany Howard, Charles Crannell and Don Lapointe.

Mt. Jefferson Level sales achievement awards to: Dana Armstrong, Beth Horan, Malcolm Badger, Missy Sullivan, Jerrod Mitchell and Nikki Barrett.

Mt. Adams Level sales achievement awarded to: Jackie Elliott, Michele Penner, Keegan Rice, Kevin Killourie and Aaron Woods.

Mt. Washington Level sales achievement awards to: Kathleen Sullivan-Head.

The annual, Three Pound Sledge Hammer Award is giving to the agent in the firm who has a willingness to help their fellow agents and always having a helpful attitude throughout the year. This year the award was presented to Jeff Gagnon in the Berlin/Gorham, NH office. Jeff has been a great resource to the team, helping with technology and lending a helping hand whenever needed. We are thankful for all Jeff does to help his fellow agents in Berlin/Gorham office and beyond.

The Badger Peabody & Smith Realty Good Neighbor Award is awarded from nominations from the agents and staff. The Good Neighbor Award recognizes the agent that makes an extraordinary impact on their community through volunteer work. The award was presented this year to Linda Walker from the North Conway office. Kathleen Sullivan-Head came to the podium and spoke of Linda's involvement in the community and then presented the award to Linda. Kathleen nominated Linda, along with others and shared with the audience some of the groups that Linda is involved in. Kathleen explained that Linda  is a very active member of the Mt. Washington Valley community, all while being an active Realtor® at our firm. Here are just some of the many of the organizations Linda has supported with her time and enthusiasm: White Mountain Board of Realtors Community Service Committee Co-Chair; Past member of the Habitat for Humanity Board; Current member of Mt. Washington Valley Band; Past leader of People to People; Arts Jubilee Board member since 1990; Chairman of the Christmas Stocking Project (Linda has been doing this for 51 years!); Past president of the White Mountain Board of Realtors; Lifetime member of the Honor Society of the National Association of Realtors; Board member of Mountain Top Music; Board member of Pope Memorial Library. Congratulations Linda - you are an inspiration to all of us! 

The Badger Peabody & Smith Realty Above and Beyond staff award was presented to Elspeth Richardson. Els consistently goes "above and beyond" in her career. When she sees something that needs to be done, she jumps in and does it. That could involve an hour long trip down the highway to get something delivered for a closing, or coming in on the weekends to water all the plants in the summer heat, or decorating a new office - no matter the task, Els gets it done with a cheery delivery! Thank you Els! 

We would like to thank the staff at the Mountain View Grand Resort for all their help planning the event, as well as all the service the day of and after the event. The service was exceptional. In addition, a big thank you to New Hampshire Audio Visual (NH A/V) - they lit the place up, took care of all of our audio and visual needs and more! Our DJ services were supplied by DJ Shamar (our very own Shamar Whyte!) and he did such a wonderful job with dinner music, music when folks came up for awards and setting the beat to fill up the dance floor! Our centerpieces and floral bouquets were beautful and expertedly crafted by Emily Herzig Floral Design. We enjoyed our photo booth with gifs, videos and still photos from Sarah and her team at Magic Mirror of New England. In addition, our company photographer, Joe Viger Photography, did a wonderful job capturing formal photos of the night as well as great candids. Thank you Joe!! A big thank you to all of our partners who helped make this event so memorable as well as our in house event team - great job and thank you for all your help Elspeth Richardson and Debbie Anderson!

Most importantly though, a big thank you to our clients and customers who we helped in 2023. It was our pleasure. If we can help you in the future, please reach out!

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To see the awards, click here.