By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON March 3, 2011 – The deadline for nominations for the annual Burlington Civic Recognition Awards closed on Tuesday and now the task of sifting through the nomination papers gets started. The following people are on the Committee that will determine who the recipient will be for each of the six awards.
Lisa Boyko, Linda Cupido, Bob Hilton, Jane McKenna, Ann Coburn and Keith Strong have accepted the call to choose the person to receive the community award for each category. Each of the six were appointed to the Burlington Civic Recognition committee for a tem that expires at December 31, 2013. Susan Zidaric Seymour is also on the committee and Adam Smith serves as chair of the eight member committee who meet by themselves with just a Clerk joining them to advise on protocol and procedure.
For those awards that are sponsored – the Arts award being an example, the sponsor of the Award has the right to have a person in the room for those deliberation but Deb Caughlin, Manager Council Services points out that there is seldom anyone from the sponsoring group taking part. This is the first year Caughlin has served as the Clerk to this committee. She describes it as an “awesome event”.
The award categories and their sponsors are:
Citizen of the Year – Sponsored by Service Clubs of Burlington: Aldershot Lions, Central Lions, Optimists, Royal Canadian Naval Association, The Rotary Clubs of Burlington: Burlington, Burlington Central, Burlington Lakeshore, Burlington North
Junior Citizen of the Year – Sponsored by B’Nai Brith
Senior Person of the Year – Sponsored by the Heritage Place Retirement Community
Environmental Award – Sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Burlington: Burlington, Burlington Central, Burlington Lakeshore, Burlington North
Community Service Award – Sponsored by Cogeco Cable Inc.
Arts Person of the Year The K. W. Irmisch Arts Award – sponsored by the Irmisch Family.
The Citizen of the Year recipient along with the nominees is announced in early May. The recipients of the other five awards are announced at the event. Each person nominated for an award is given a certificate
The event that celebrates the announcement of the awards and the presentation of the certificates takes place on May 26th at the Burlington Convention Centre. Tickets will be available at City Hall in the next few days. Tickets are $30. each and are available from the city 905-335-7600, ext. 7493 or visit www.burlington.ca/civicrecognition
“This is not a fund raising event” explained Caughlin. “All we do is cover the costs and have reserved 250 spaces at the convention Centre.”
The Awards have been given out since February of 1965. Before that different groups gave awards and the city decided it would be more effective and meaningful for there to be a single event at which all the recipients were recognized.
Transit appointments:
The following citizens were also appointed to the Burlington Transit Advisory Committee for a term that expires December 31st, 2012
Christopher Cottingham (Resident-Youth) and Amy Collard (Alternate, Halton Public school Board Trustee. Jennifer Hlusko was approved as an appointee to the Burlington Transit Advisory for a term that expires December 31, 2013.
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