Gala Celebration of Environmental Excellence 2008
Ross wins Land Trust’s top award
Whenever Haliburton’s natural heritage needs defending, just look to the front line and you’re bound to find Heather Ross, who won the county’s top environmental award for 2008.
Ross was honoured for her hard work and leadership as Enviro-Hero of the Year by the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust at its May 31 Wild About Nature gala in Minden.
Though the Trust sponsored the Enviro-Hero Awards as part of its first annual gala, Ross and five other winners were selected by an independent three-judge panel.
The awards were the centre piece of an evening that included art auctions and live music and raised funds to finance future land acquisition, education and research by the Trust.
Michael Fay capped the live auction conducted by Jack Brezina with a winning bid of $700 on the painting “Northern Lights” by Minden’s John Lennard, who was honored as an Enviro-Hero in The Arts and The Environment category.
The Enviro-Hero of the Year award won by Ross recognizes a lifetime of achievements by the winner, who can receive the top prize only once.
The first president of Environment Haliburton!, Ross has had a leadership role on such issues as aggregates, wetlands and uranium mining in the county.
Bureaucrats and politicians alike know that she is always looking over their shoulders when they make decisions that affect the environment.
Other Enviro-Heroes were:
- Environmental Education – Jim McHardy.
- Green Business – Haliburton Forest & Wild Life Reserve.
- Health and the Environment – Margaret and Peter Brogden.
- Stewardship – Ed Poropat.
Judges for the awards were Haliburton County Warden Eleanor Harrison, Barb Bolin, founding principal of the Haliburton campus of Fleming College, and Land Trust board member Barrie Martin.
The Trust also singled out the contributions of webmaster C. Daniel Gory, who designs and manages these pages.
Last Updated: May 23 2009 2:39:41 am.
Photo: Lyn Winans
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