"When Anne Lyles answered the phone, she thought the caller was asking her to help present the 2010 Clement Cup, the highest honor bestowed by Historic Salisbury Foundation.

“No, Anne,” Sarah Kellogg, president of the foundation, told Lyles. “You are the recipient of our Clement Cup this year.”

Lyles said she was shocked.

“What I have done here, what we have done, has not been for any award,” she said. “It was simply to clean up our neighborhood.”

Lyles and her family were honored last week for their 20-year commitment to historic preservation. Together, Lyles, Preston Sale, Karl Sale and Ken Weaver have rehabilitated nine historic properties in the Brooklyn-South Square neighborhood."

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Salisbury Post (2/5/2011)