WRIGHTSTOWN, WI (WTAQ) – The votes keep coming in for the national Custodian of the Year, and one local custodian is hoping to claim that top spot.
Wrightstown High School’s Bobbi Sue Burbey is one of ten finalists.
“I just don’t look at anything I do as a big deal. It’s just how I do things…I just take calls all day from the teachers if they need anything. I take deliveries in. I help out the kitchen people with their stuff because they’re pretty busy now with everything with COVID. It’s a busy, busy day,” Burbey told WTAQ News. “Even when I gave that boy the Heimlich maneuver, I just sent him back to class. Then they called me like ‘You have to fill out a report, this is a big deal!’”
Burbey says she had no idea she had advanced in the contest, and couldn’t believe she was named in the group of finalists.
“I thought the finalist thing was already picked, so that’s why I was really shocked when the superintendent called and said I was a finalist. I thought it was already done. It’s going to be pretty neat,” Burbey said.
The winner receives $10,000 cash, $5,000 worth of Cintas and Rubbermaid products and training worth up to $20,000 from ISSA, a trade association for the cleaning industry.
Burbey says whatever happens, happens.
“It would be amazing. I would absolutely love that. There’s tons of things I could do with that, there’s tons of things the school could do with that. It’s just a really nice thing that CINTAS does,” Burbey said. “I have a lot of really cool friends, family and neighbors. I know even some people in the country of Denmark, there are people voting for me. It’s pretty neat.”
