Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley is recognizing 14 residents and 4 teams in his 2024 honour record.
The honour record was established in 1981 by the late mayor Marceil Saddy as a tribute to the unsung individuals and teams who’ve been instrumental in bettering the standard of life or making a major contribution to the Metropolis of Sarnia and Lambton County.
BGC Sarnia-Lambton (previously the Boys and Women Membership) is being acknowledged for its continued dedication — regardless of monetary constraints — to offer a protected and nurturing surroundings for younger individuals.
Two 10-year-old Sarnia women, Brooke Reiger and Amisha Duggal, are being honoured for his or her work in the neighborhood. The buddies have held charity storage gross sales, fundraised to assist these impacted by Parkinson’s, and in addition donated to native snack, lunch, e book and toy packages.
Catriona Henderson is counseled for being named the primary feminine president of the St. Andrew’s Society of Petrolia. She additionally serves because the chair of Sarnia’s Royal Canadian Legion Department 62 and leads the annual poppy marketing campaign.
Catriona Henderson, submitted photograph.
Cyndi Rayson, 14, is being acknowledged for her position within the Shoebox Mission in Sarnia. The native marketing campaign, which helps girls impacted by homelessness with each day necessities, was began by her sister Annabelle.
Greg Robbins is being honoured for 50 years of service to the Kidney Basis. He helped discovered the native chapter and has served on the provincial and nationwide boards. In 2005, he donated certainly one of his kidneys to his spouse Susan.
Sarnia’s “unofficial deputy mayor” is being celebrated for over 5 many years of dedication to the town. Janis Moore retired as the manager assistant to the Mayor of Sarnia after 51 years within the position. She began working for the town in 1973, and labored with mayors Andy Brandt, Marceil Saddy and Ron Gordon earlier than Mike Bradley.
Janis Moore welcomed by Andy Brandt on the primary day of her new job. Picture submitted by Mike Bradley.
A cornerstone of the Sarnia College of Irish Dance since its formation in 1997 is being acknowledged. Mairin Ring has run the college for many years and promoted Irish tradition all through the area.
Aamjiwnaang First Nation artist Nico Williams is being honoured. Williams not too long ago gained the 2024 Sobey Artwork Award.
Nico Williams wins 2024 Sobey Artwork Award. November 2024. (Picture courtesy of Nationwide Gallery of Canada by way of Instagram)
The Northern Collegiate Institute and Vocational College soccer workforce is being celebrated for successful the OFSAA Impartial Bowl Championship in Windsor.
The pastor of Bethel Pentecostal Church in Sarnia is being acknowledged for his native and worldwide management. Timothy Gibb has visited over 20 nations doing missionary work. He additionally helped coordinate the arrival of Ukrainian refugees to Lambton County.
Philip Lasek is being honoured for his work to assist strengthen Sarnia-Lambton’s engineering neighborhood as a member of the Skilled Engineers of Ontario (PEO) Lambton Chapter. Lasek has helped help native initiatives like Ladies in Engineering and Discovery Day.
Sarnia-Lambton Rebound is being celebrated for its dedication to native youth. The group marked its fortieth anniversary in 2024.
Sheila Donald is being counseled for 35 years {of professional} and volunteer work in the neighborhood. Donald has held varied management roles with the Golden Ok Kiwanis Membership and fulfilled a profession as a nurse.
A longtime Lambton School educator and a 2024 recipient of the YMCA Peace Medal is being acknowledged. Susan Doughty based the Worldwide Ladies’s Membership on the Sarnia campus, then launched the Enterprise Professionals Membership and the Sustainability Membership to assist bridge cultural divides.
The Lambton Lions girls’s basketball workforce is being honoured for its historic 2023-2024 season. The workforce gained its first OCAA girls’s basketball title in early March, then captured a silver medal on the CCAA Ladies’s Basketball Nationwide Championships in Alberta in mid-March.
Two people are being counseled posthumously for the lasting impression they left on the Sarnia-Lambton neighborhood. Brother Al Verstraaten, the founding father of the Large Brother company in 1967 and Large Sisters in 1972, is remembered for his dedication to help youngsters. Sydney Vrolyk, who co-founded the Snacks for Summer time program along with her sisters, can be remembered for supporting these in want.
A proper reception to honour the 2024 recipients shall be held in early 2025.
Helen Van Sligtenhorst (L) and her daughter Sydney (R) (Picture courtesy of Helen Van Sligtenhorst)
