Business group honors Memorial partners

Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation and Korczak’s Heritage Inc. gained recent honors from a statewide organization for the operation’s combined excellence in business. 

The South Dakota Chamber of Commerce & Industry named the nonprofit Foundation and for-profit Korczak’s Heritage corporation a finalist for Business of the Year in the annual ABEX competition. The Awards for Business Excellence program is held in conjunction with the Governor’s Giant Vision Awards contest for businesses and college-level students. 

Although finishing a runnerup to a Sioux Falls firm, the Memorial’s partners were cited for the long-term commitment to free enterprise that is funding the largest sculptural undertaking in the world. 

Ziolkowskis receive Arbor Day Foundation Award

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. – The family of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski has won its second award in six months for woodland conservation practices at Crazy Horse Memorial. 

The National Arbor Day Foundation honored the Ziolkowski family in rewarding the efforts of tree planters and conservation-minded organizations from across the world. 

The Nebraska-based Arbor Day organization bestowed its Good Steward Award for the family’s forest care practices on private land. 

Mark Ziolkowski manages the Crazy Horse Memorial Forest for the Ziolkowski family. In October they were named South Dakota’s Woodland Tree Farmers of the Year. 

The Crazy Horse Memorial forest is South Dakota’s oldest and largest certified woodland tree farm.