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Jan Morgan: Eric Flowerdew Volunteer of the Year Award winner
People who have made Langley a better place were singled out for thanks during a ceremony this week.
with fundraising events such as the annual garage sale. As well, she supports her husband John in the Langley Central Rotary club and has been awarded the Paul Harris Fellowship for her “Service Above Self.” The Langley Christmas Bureau and Downtown Four Langley residents who Langley Ambassador Program have gone above and beyond also benefit from her time and the call of duty were honoured dedication. Thursday night for their service As if that exhaustive list wasn’t to the Township. enough, Morgan helps with The council and communthe Rotary Wine Festival and ity paid tribute at the annual Breakfast with Santa, adorns the Volunteer Appreciation and promotional window spaces and Awards Evening at the Langley decorates the venue for Bras for Events Centre. a Cause, coordinates fundraisers Jan Morgan won the Eric including the Arts Alive! hot dog Flowerdew Volunteer of the Year stand and Bean Soup Sale, and Award for assists at the 2010. Big Brothers A commitBig Sisters golf ted member tournament. of Soroptimist The Eric International Flowerdew of the award is Langleys, named after a Morgan has Langley man spent years who served as working to a school trustimprove ee, municipal the lives councillor, Joe and Joan Topolewski won the John and of women and member and girls in Muriel Arnason Volunteers of the Year award. of the hospital this comThey spend thousands of hours working to keep board. munity and From a field their community educated about crime. throughout of six deservthe world. She has held variing teens, Aldergrove Secondary’s ous leadership roles, including Sunny Bui was chosen as this president, secretary, and chair of year’s Pete Swensson Outstanding awards, membership, and fundCommunity Youth Award winner. raising. Bui has combined the pursuit of Each year, Morgan gathers a excellence in sports and academteam of Soroptimists to bowl for ics with community service. Big Brothers Big Sisters, organHe has played junior and izes a Remembrance Day wreath senior basketball and rugby, to remember fallen soldiers, making the rugby Fraser Valley coordinates various fundraisers and provincial qualifiers, playto help women in crisis, and puts ing on the Fraser Valley District her artistic talents to work creatChampionship team, and being ing bras and helping to organize recognized for his commitment to Bras for a Cause, which raises his school rugby team. funds for women with cancer. An honour roll student Morgan has helped the children every year, he is Aldergrove and families of Douglas Park Secondary’s student council presCommunity School for more than ident, and excels in the theatre. 15 years, coordinating the hot A youth representative on breakfast program and helping the Township of Langley’s
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Volunteer Troy Peters (a.k.a. Fred Flintstone) and bowler (as well as Eric Flowerdew Volunteer of the Year Award winner) Jan Morgan dressed for the occasion during the Bowl for Kids Sake fundraiser Saturday at Willowbrook Lanes. Proceeds from the “bowl-a-thon” which included three sessions April 9, go to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Langley’s programs. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Langley matches volunteers 18 years old and older with children who need a mentor. Matches spend one-on-one time together, two-to-three hours per week, doing things that friends do. Donations are still being accepted online at www.bbbslangley. com. Click on the hotlink. Recreation, Culture, and Parks Advisory Committee, he also serves on the Township’s Youth Advisory Committee. Swensson, the award’s namesake, was an athlete, photographer, and the first Parks and Recreation director in the Township, founding the annual Langley Walk to encourage physical fitness. An award that goes to a couple who have advocated literacy, culture, and learning, goes this year to Joan and Joe Topolewski. Their win of the John and Muriel Arnason Volunteers of the Year award is for thousands of volunteer hours working to keep their community educated about crime. The duo has taken part in Block Watch and volunteer foot
patrols, overseen bike rodeos, and kept the Bobby Block Watch House Trailer in good repair for many years. On a personal level, both of these seniors are troopers: at one point Joan broke her knee after a run-in with an inattentive driver, but was back to her volunteer duties within weeks. Joe, who lost his arm in machinery accident in 1965, goes out to BCIT every week to help new amputees use their prosthetic devices. The Arnason award is named for Muriel Arnason, the first woman elected to Township council, and her husband John. The late Muriel was made a Freewoman of the Township in 2006.