Julian Davis wins the Grady Ballenger Award

Rotarians in Seneca were effusive in their praise today of a local businessman who measured up to be this year’s winner of the Ballenger Award — an honor named for the first president of the Seneca Rotary Club back in the 1920s.  The award is named for G-W Ballenger, the owner and operator of a corner hardware store downtown.  Rotarian Debbie Dubose says, without a doubt, Julian Davis epitomizes “Service Above Self”.  Through his agency, according to Dubose, $150 thousand has been donated to the local community, since 2012. Dubose’s fellow Rotarian Kyle Thomas pointed to Davis’s service with Oconee County Council and said, “We are blessed to have him.”  The Ballenger Award recipient doesn’t maintain a resume, but Dubose did some digging and found that Davis has helped lead Seneca’s shelter Our Daily Rest, received the local Sertoma Club’s Service to Mankind Award, and finds time to coach the Bobcats boys’ soccer team.