30 Area Residents to Receive Queen’s Jubilee Medals

Perth – Local MP Scott Reid is proud to announce the names of 30 outstanding local citizens who will be receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

The commemorative medal, which was minted to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the coronation of our Queen, is being awarded to Canadians from across the country.

Each Member of Parliament was given the opportunity to put forward the names of 30 outstanding men and women to receive a medal. Scott Reid opened nominations earlier this year and received over 120 nominations before the July 30th cutoff date.

“I wanted to make sure that the most deserving individuals got a medal.” Scott Reid continued, “so I set up a three-member committee to evaluate all of the nominations and choose the 30 most deserving nominations. In our country, it is the Crown, not any particular MP, who is the fount of honour, and I wanted to choices to be as objective as possible, and to be completely free of political bias.”

Nominees had to meet the following requirements:

• Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident;
• Reside within the boundaries of Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington;
• Have made a significant contribution to the community or an achievement abroad that brought credit to Canada; and
• Be alive on February 6, 2012 (the day of the sixtieth anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the Throne).

In addition to the criteria listed above, Reid requested that the three-member committee give special consideration to individuals whose record of public, community, or military service most closely resembled the kind of service shown by the Queen herself. “Queen Elizabeth has devoted her life to the service to others, starting with her wartime service as an auxiliary and continuing with her decades of tireless work throughout the Commonwealth,” Reid said. “The Diamond Jubilee Medal ought to honour those Canadians whose own lives have paralleled Her Majesty’s personal history of giving back to the community.”

In Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington, the 30 individuals who will be awarded a Queen’s Jubilee Medal are:

• Ann Babcock

• Master Warrant Officer Ross Babcock

• Shirley Boston

• Master Cpl. Roger JS Chevrier

• Andrew Clarke

• Chief Warrant Officer (ret’d) Leslie Closs

• Mary Cook

• Danna Dobson

• Hans Christian Eggink

• Marcel Giroux

• Jack Hamilton

• Krista Hanna-Thompson

• Francis C Harvey

• Gary Hawley

• Mary Howes

• Gary Irish

• David & Janice Jacklin

• Douglas Kilpatrick

• Linda Lane

• Henry Lane

• Susan O’Brien McTaggart

• Keith Miller

• Constable Sonya Oleinikow

• Martin Oomen

• Jackie Seaton

• Frank Streek

• Bernice Thompson

• Roscoe Trudel

• Sergeant Philis Vivaris

“There are some remarkable people in our community,” said Reid. “The award recipients include policemen, members of the military, church and service club volunteers, firefighters, and individuals who have given tens of thousands of hours of their time to serve the homeless, the hungry, and the afflicted. It’s an honour to represent a community with so many remarkable people it.”

The Queen’s Jubilee medals will be awarded at a ceremony in November, following Remembrance Day.” This week was selected because of its symbolic importance,” explained Reid. “Nobody gives more, in the service of Canada, than the servicemen and women who are willing to risk their lives for Queen and Country.”

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For further information contact:

Phil Joannou
Communications Assistant to Scott Reid, MP
613-947-2277

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