Honours & Awards
Annual Report 2006-07
With the onset of the Scouting Centennial in 2007 the National
Honours and Awards committee unveiled a new award recognizing continuing
exceptional service to Scouting for registered members across Canada
with approximately 2500 awards to be presented from February 2007 to
February 2008. So far the committee has evaluated a number of applicants
and has bestowed the Commemorative Centennial medal on 36 members including
1 youth member, Ashlyn Field in Thunder Bay, with hope of a number of
more awards this fall and winter. Also new this Centennial year was
a thank you award developed by Toronto council called the Legacy Profile.
Although not recognized as an official Honour by National council it
has been a popular way of saying thank you to leaders in different councils.
The applications
for the CCM have given the committee another tool to allow us to look
at Leaders in our Council for other service awards. From information gathered
13 service awards were also bestowed on members of our council. Letters
of Commendation were presented to Minetta Kraynyk and Debbie Kaiser. Medals
of Good Service were presented to Shane Mason, William Brownlee, Rhonda
Rutherford, Grace Mullner and Larry Bieronski. Medals of Merit were presented
to Normand Giroux, Debbie Kaiser, Roy Brockelbank, and Steve Bobriwicz.
The Silver Acorn, normally the highest award a Scouter can earn without
being involved internationally, was bestowed on Olean Jones and Tom Abthorpe.
Congratulations to all these award winners.
Also part of our recognizing leaders in certificates for years of service. Any leader having being registered for 10 years receives the Long Service medal. This year we sent out 8 for presentation. These went to Cathy Clement, Wendy Kirby, Kelly McCaw, Kerry Zimmerman, Larry Bieronski, Enico Pucci, David Gallant and Martin Deforest. Over 55% of our leaders have more than 10 years of service in Scouting. 8 Scouters reached milestones of 25 years or more this year. With 25 anniversaries this year were Wally East, Len Godwin, William Towill and Ruth Marvin. Celebrating 30 years were Wilfred Findlay and Tom McGibbom. Celebrating 35 years of service to Scouting were Alexa Woolen and Doug Grainger. This shows that as an organization we are becoming old. This year the long service awards out numbered the Warrants of Appointments for new Scouters by 2 to 1.
It has been a busy year. Again I wish to thank the committee members for all their hard work in evaluating the applications this year and hopefully next year will be as busy.
Larry Rivers DDC H&A Northern Ontario Council
Commentrative Centennial Medal Receiptents
Here is a list of Scouters in Northern Ontario Council that have been awarded the CCM so far. This award program continues through the remainder of the Centennial year.
David Reilly - David
Duffy - Karen Luczak - Earl Mumford - Doug Goodale - Shirley Rivers -
Larry Rivers - Larry Lewis - Tom Abthorpe - Olean Jones - Barry Matson
- Joy Cummings - Roberta Wolfe - Randy Crieghton - John Mayo - Grace Mullner
- Shane Mason - James Collins - Rene Brunelle - Candy Stott - Anna Wright
- Normand Giroux - Rhonda Rutherford - William Brownlee - Steve Bobrowicz
- Ashlyn Field(youth) - Kim Leonard - Len Goodwin - Bill Towill - Susan
McCutcheon - Debbie Kaiser - William Taylor - Ray Sanche - Wendy Kirby
- Tom McGibbon - Ralph Jenkins
The application and requirements can be found at www.scouts.ca
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