"Volunteering is my joy..."
By Jack Krayenhoff
Mavis DeGerolamo recently received quite a recognition: the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Award for outstanding services to the community. It is a big, handsome silver medal with the Queen's portrait in profile, hanging from a colourful ribbon. It also comes with a quite detailed guide as to what are the appropriate occasions to wear it, and where to attach it to the clothing. This last requirement is not so easy to fulfill for a female, so Mavis does not think she will wear it very often, but still, it's nice when your efforts get acknowledged.
Not that it is her first award - in 2008 she received the Valued Elder recognition Award from the University of Victoria.
To list her achievements, involvements and contributions is a daunting task, but take a look at this:
Fund raising for the Red Shield Foundation, the Cancer Society, the Kidney Foundation, the Mustard Seed Food Bank and the Victoria Epilepsy and Parkinson Foundation. Enough to keep one person fully occupied? Keep reading.
In this issue...
Three good Samaritans of James Bay
Volunteer in your own community
JBCP: A great community deserves great services
JBNH: Members are not defined by age
Community Schools an important cornerstone
Annual float home tour raises money for James Bay Community Centre School
Fisherman's Wharf float home village
Disability Tax Credit and other supports for people with disabilities
James Bay playwright stages George Orwell classic
MLA Report: Imagine a city where nobody is homeless
Big changes at Church of Our Lord!
Ogden Point transportation solutions
From our Hill to Parliament Hill
Then and Now...
Letters to the Editor
Response to the article on 'The power of self love'
Cruise-ship emissions and Galileo's reason over ignorance
Poetry
Conni's Cooking Corner
This Month's Mystery House
October's Mystery House is located at 26 Paddon Avenue
