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Vol. 3, No. 7
The Voice of North Grenville
February 18, 2015
Heritage Awards Night 2015
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Sarah Lystiuk accepting her Heritage Award for drawing in the public through Facebook by David Shanahan This is Heritage Week in Ontario, and the annual Heritage Awards Night took place at the Branch Restaurant in Kemptville on Monday night, appropriately, Family Day. The event is a joint presentation by the North Grenville Heritage Advisory Committee [NGHAC] and the North Grenville Historical Society [NGHS], and it recognises contributions made by individuals and groups to the preservation and promotion of our history and heritage in the municipality. The NGHAC is a Committee of Council, operating under the Ontario Heritage Act, and is responsible for our built heritage. The Committee
is mandated to keep an inventory of heritage buildings, and to designate buildings at the request of owners. The Committee handed out three awards for 2014. One went to Olivia Mills, of Burritt’s Rapids, and the citation read: “This award is presented in recognition of a lifetime of work in preserving and sharing the history of North Grenville, and, in particular, the Burritts Rapids area”. The award was presented by Barb Tobin, The other two awards were presented to Michael Rowland and Rob Thompson for their work in “promoting heritage values in North Grenville for the revitalization of Downtown Kemptville, and, in particular, for your exceptional adaptive re-use project
at the Kemptville Suites”. These awards were presented by Barb Tobin. In their acceptance speeches, both Michael and Ron referred to the work they did as “fun”: the fact is, they agreed, that preserving heritage was worthwhile and worth doing. The NGHS is a voluntary society dedicated to the preservation, protection and promotion of local history and heritage. Through their regular public meetings, and, most especially, the operation of the North Grenville Archives, the NGHS has done much to make North Grenville’s history and heritage known to the people of the municipality. The Society gave out two awards for 2014. One was to Doug MacDonald for his role
in producing the Society’s latest publication, “School Days Past”, a history of the schools of the area between 1808 and 1964. The book has been very successful since its launch in January, selling out its first two print runs. The award was presented by Dr. Bill Adams, President of the NGHS. In his acceptance speech, Doug thanked all 150 + contributors to the book (though not, of course, individually), and said that, in all his years of working with creative people in the National Film Board, he had never enjoyed such creative pleasure as he had working on this book. The second NGHS award went to Sarah Lystiuk, who set up and administers the continued on page 2
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