 Time, energy and money are three things Mary Jo Hamilton has donated a lot of over the last year to the Brainard Lakes Curling Club and over the weekend she was honored for her hard work. The U.S. Curling Association honored Mary Jo Hamilton with her 2018 Volunteer of the Year award. Besides convincing her later on to donate the funds for the Brainard Curling facility, Hamilton also led the Let's Rock campaign and replaced all of the club's 64 curling rocks. But she says this award it's a team effort. You kind of feel bad in the sense that it takes a whole club. It really does. So for everything I do there's all of the support system behind me. One person does kind of have to spearhead it but it does take a whole team. So I mean it's nice as it is it is a team recognition really. Because of her hard work Brainard was chosen to host the 2018 club national championships where the 10 top men's and women's curling teams from across the nation came together to compete. Hamilton shared the event organizing ceremonies preparing food and coordinating the week-long tournament. And at the nationals it was unbelievable just all the volunteers that it takes it it was a lot of work but it really helped put our name on the map and bring a lot of people to our club that haven't been here before. So it was great.