Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort honored three top employees at its annual Golden Eagle Awards dinner this month at the Swiss Chalet restaurant in South Lake Tahoe.

Each year, the Golden Eagle Awards dinner offers an opportunity for Sierra Resort’s year-round employees to acknowledge the hard work of the previous winter and look forward to the coming season.

“We’re a tight family here at Sierra Resort,” General Manager John Rice said in a release. “The Golden Eagle Award winners are people who have made some of the most significant contributions to this resort. We are proud of every one of them.”

This year’s winners are Cathy Johns in accounting (Golden Eagle), David Rios, Sierra Pub supervisor (Silver Eagle), and Dennis Cambron, Lift Operations supervisor (Bronze Eagle).

Johns has been a member of the Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort family for 14 years – always behind the scenes helping resort supervisors stay on track from a financial perspective. Often she is the first to arrive and the last to leaves.

Rios has elevated the level of service and the options at one of Sierra Resort’s busiest restaurants – the Sierra Pub. Comments from peer nominations for the award included, “Dave is always moving, always working, and is never too busy to jump behind the line and do the same job as his employees. Whatever it takes, Dave is there.”

Cambron is no stranger to the Eagle awards, having won bronze and silver in previous years. His flexibility is one of his strongest assets as he has overseen multiple departments in the past few years including Lift Operations, Parking, Tubing, and Ticket Checking.