Everyone in attendance was on their feet at the Greater Newton Area Chamber of Commerce’s 115th annual dinner and business meeting as they honored Doug Bishop with the Key Award for exceptional achievement of an individual project Thursday evening.

Newton Chamber Executive Director Darrell Sarmento opened with a joke.

“If you go to Google images, and Google his name, there are pictures of him receiving checks from people,” Sarmento said. “That is because he has championed the Jasper County Freedom Flight that gets our veterans to go back to Washington, D.C., and see their memorials as veterans of Jasper County. “