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Canvasback Ducks - captured by Mike Veltri - enjoying a dip at Grimsby’s award-winning wetlands. (inset) Bruce Mackenzie, project coordinator for Hamilton Naturalist Club, and his wife, Laurie, attended the Canadian Brownfield Network’s awards banquet to accept their Brownie Award.
First-time winner for any volunteer group
HNC’s Grimsby wetlands project wins national award By Mike Williscraft NewsNow Hamilton Naturalist Club has set a national first by becoming the first vol-
unteer group to earn a Brownie Award, presented annually by Canadian Brownfield Network (CBN). The award came in the
“Reinvest: Financing, Risk Management and Partnerships” category and was presented at CBN’s annual awards banquet in Toronto
earlier this month. The CBN is a network of companies, agencies and consultants that work in the field of brownfield re-
mediation and their repurposing across Canada. The Reinvest category was one of seven categories See WETLANDS, Page 3