Ethan Frelly, Lead Buyers Agent, Beltran Properties Named 2019 Tigard Chamber Volunteer of the Year
Ethan Frelly, Lead Buyers Agent for Beltran Properties, has been named the 2019 Tigard Shining Stars Chamber Volunteer of the Year. This award honors a Chamber member who has volunteered many hours of time, talent and energy to the success and growth of the Tigard Chamber. Bert Tousey and his example of Chamber volunteerism is commitment at its best. This person is an example of an active member who has sustained their efforts on behalf of the Chamber over a long period of time. By their efforts, they have made this organization more effective in serving the Tigard community.
Ethan Frelly has been a Tigard Chamber member for almost 7 years and rapidly engaged with the Tigard Chamber, starting first with our Tigard Farmers Market. With a vision for connecting with younger business people, he advocated for and launched a Tigard Young Professionals program which ran for several years. In conjunction with this, Ethan stepped into an Ambassador role as part of the Ambassador team, serving on this critical committee for almost 7 years, eventually becoming Co-Chair and then Chair of the Ambassador Committee. In his chair positions with Ambassadors, Ethan also became a Tigard Chamber Board member and subsequent to stepping down as Ambassador Chair, has remained on the Board and is currently Chair elect.
Beyond these roles, Ethan has made himself available in other volunteer capacities such as our Building Task Force, Candidate Endorsement Committee and GAPP Committee. In addition to these current taskforce and committee roles plus his board role, Ethan has agreed to represent the Tigard Chamber and its business community over the next two years as a member of the SW Corridor Advisory Committee providing business feedback on a proposed light rail line connecting Southwest Portland to Tigard and through Tigard to Tualatin.
Another example of his commitment to the Tigard Chamber and the broader community, Ethan self-selected, paid for and participated in the inaugural year of our Leadership Tigard program, a community leadership program designed to help inspire and enable community members to gain a broad understanding of Tigard and create more informed invested leaders who can step in and advocate for our community on a variety of levels.
As you can see, Ethan’s volunteerism has been broad and deep within the Tigard Chamber. Additionally, he has been the Emcee for the Downtown Tigard Tree Lighting and has joined the Tigard Downtown Alliance board extending his volunteerism to chamber member organizations/businesses. He is available, willing to help and has great insights and is a tremendous supporter of the Tigard Chamber and its business community. He says his Jesuit college education at Loyola University Chicago really had the biggest effect on his love to give back.
Other awards
2015 Tigard Chamber Shooting Star Award
Please join us in congratulating Ethan on this well-deserved award. This award will be formally presented with other Tigard volunteer and business awards at Tigard’s 2019 Shining Stars Community Awards Celebration held on Friday, May 3rd, 2019 from 5:30-9 p.m. at Embassy Suites – Washington Square, event location host. With a theme of “Travel”, this elegant themed dinner event includes dinner, silent auction, dessert dash, awards, and more. Tickets are $60/person. So dress your best and come join us to celebrate Tigard! For further details about Shining Stars, please contact the Tigard Chamber of Commerce at 503-639-1656 or at jessica@tigardchamber.org or go to our webpage at www.tigardchamber.org