Anyone have ‘everyday heroes’ they want to honor?

The Park City Leadership class is seeking people who can be described as “everyday heroes” as part of the efforts to instill civility in the community.

The current class of Park City Leadership, which is a yearlong training program meant to prepare people to take on wider roles in the community, is focused on the idea that Park City can benefit if people are more civil to each other.

The Park City Leadership class is preparing to honor people with ‘Civility Awards,’ according to a statement from the group. The awards will be given to people whose actions promote the cause. The people will not necessarily be “the movers and shakers” or “people who can write a check to help a non-profit or use their status to bring publicity to a project.”

Instead, the statement says, the awards could go to a housekeeper who finds a hotel guest’s clothes after the person checked out and then mails the clothes to the person or to a student in high school “who stands up to bullying and rescues a newcomer from being ostracized.”

The statement defines civility with words like “kindness,” “courtesy,” “respect,” “tact” and “politeness.”

The Park City Leadership class is accepting nominations from a range of people and organizations, including businesses, not-for-profit groups, government entities, schools and individuals. The group says, “nominees from all walks of life will be equally considered.”

” . . . Civility is as natural as breathing, as contagious as a smile and as rewarding as life,” the statement says, adding, “civility is a trickle-up as well as a trickle-down phenomenon.”

The deadline for nominations for the ‘Civility Awards’ is Thursday. Nomination forms are available on the group’s civility website, www.parkcivility.com . Select the ‘Nominate someone for the Civility Awards’ link at the top of the page. Once at the page, there are links to an online nomination form and a nomination form that can be downloaded.

Each Leadership Park City class selects an issue to stress during its year in the program. The current class picked civility. The campaign has also involved people from the class handing out so-called ‘civility cards.’