More than 30 residents of Prince Albert and area were presented with a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre on Friday night.
The medallions were handed out by local Member of Parliament Randy Hoback who said that with the Queen’s passing in September, some of the award recipients mentioned these medals hold a bit more significance than with awards handed out in previous years.
“A lot of (the recipients) are older and they acknowledged that,” Hoback explained. “They resonate with the Queen and the Queen resonates with them. They understand the work that she did, and the sacrifices she made so to have a Queen Platinum Jubilee medal, it means a lot. Maybe a little bit extra special because it’s the Queen’s last one.”
Of those who were awarded medals, two of the recipients were former Prince Albert Citizen of the Year Marie Mathers and Marjorie Bodnarchuk where Marjorie praised all the other recipients for their work in the city.
Prince Albert Member of Parliament Randy Hoback presents 2022 Citizen of the Year Marjorie Bodnarchuk with a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee medallion on April 21, 2023. (Logan Lehmann/paNOW staff)“All of these wonderful people who have been contributing for decades and decades and they’re still hard at it no matter how up in years they get, they still have the energy and the mental drive to keep going and do more,” she said. “I don’t know where else in Canada you would have such a large percentage of the population dedicated to volunteering and to go on and on and on, and to just make this the most fabulous place to live.”
Along with Mathers and Bodnarchuk, here is the complete list of recipients in order of last name:
Richard Anhenakew
Wayne Bacon
Mark Bergen
Don Bernier
Marjorie Bodnarchuk
David Bodvarson
Ralph Boychuk
Robert Bratvold
Gordon Broda
Chief Burns
Rose-Marie Carey
Nancy Carruthers
Carol Churchill
Russell Clunie
Natalie Clyke
Brennen Dupre
Gordon Dupre
Margaret Ferguson
Gordon Finnestad
John Fryters
Isidore Gaudet
Robert Gentil-Perret
Evelyn Hagley
Deborah Halverson
Chief Head
John Herd
Vern Hodgins
Patricia Hughes
Joyce Hunter
Thomas Hunter
Clarence Jackson
Sonya Jahn
Malcolm Jenkins
Eldeen Johnson
Luciano Lauzon
Patricia Lunny
Gloria Mahussier
Marie Mathers
Doris McDougall
Sherry McLennan
Nnamdi Ndubuka
Janis Olesko
Annie Pistun
Teena Polle
Andrew Poulin
Stephen Roberts
Stella Rodwin
Chief Sanderson
Myron Schmalz
Kam Singh
Joan Sommerfeld
Gail Syverson
Hoback added that he will be in Tisdale on Saturday to hand out more Platinum Jubilee medals to the recipients in the town and to that area of the province.
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logan.lehmann@pattisonmedia.com
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