Community Living -- Grimsby, Lincoln and West Lincoln welcomed its 2008 Board of Directors, from left: Rev. Ian Chadwick; Tom Ayers, secretary; Judy Meldrum, vice-president; Dr. Matthew Wohlgemut; Barb Mihowich, President; Elizabeth Furness; Elizabeth Akitt; Anneke Blom; and Sarina Labonté, Executive Director. Absent from the photo were directors Christine Hahn, Patricia Lang and Karen Unger.
Volunteers were recognized and walk/bikeathon awards presented at the 43rd annual meeting of Community Living - Grimsby, Lincoln and West Lincoln. Front row from left: Andrew Brons, $1,050; Thomas Kielstra, $577; Brad Kerkhof, $600; and Derek Bosch, $556. Back row: Sue Kort, fundraising coordinator at John Knox Christian School; Judy Crocket, $500; Joanne McDonald, Grimsby Lincoln News, for six-week Partners in Your Community series; and Rev. Ian Chadwick, $500.
Lord Mayor Gary Burroughs holds up a ballot box where residents can drop off their report cards for a chance to win a gift certificate for a dinner for two at a NOTL restaurant. The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is examining its internal and external communication channels and is asking residents to provide feedback on how it's doing.
Dave Perkins tends the kitchen garden at the Riverbend Inn in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Roger Perkins, director of the Evergreen Singers, is speechless after being named the town's volunteer of the year at a ceremony Monday night at town hall.
Four baby great horned owls live in a tree outside the rooms of Edith Tatarnic and Ellen Coomber at Portal Village.
YWCA Niagara Region 2008 Women of Distinction award winner Sandra Murre, right, founder and CEO of Jordan Engineering Inc. with Jane Cunningham, lead software engineer with the Beamsville company.
A.N. Myer high school students Vicky Wulff, left, Paula Grcevic and Chris Clarkstone, were among the winners of the 2008 Canada Millenium Scholarship Foundation Excellence Awards.
Alexis Warner and Anthony Ransome play games during the Niagara Falls Big Brothers Big Sisters celebration at Kingsbridge Park recently. The volunteer group was celebrating reaching the halfway point in its One year, 100 Men campaign.
Rusty Sanderson, a Second World War veteran, left, and Niagara Falls businessman Bob Gale, sit on one of the new benches donated by the Gale family at the Queen Victoria Park Cenotaph.
Four Niagara District Secondary School students will leave town this August to live abroad for a year as part of the Rotary Club International Youth Exchange. Pictured are students Natalie Jones, Vanessa Caruso, Sam Manning and Kyle Lamb, and Youth Exchange committee member Travis Cairns.
Shirley Olm, a patient at Port Colborne General Hospital pulled the winning ticket for the annual cash draw early bird prize last Friday and handed it to Nancy Horpenuk, a member of the Port Colborne Hospital Foundation. The winner of the $500 early bird prize was Irish Rovers, a physiotherapy group from Niagara Falls. There are still tickets for the $20,000 top prize.
Gord West, centre, chair of the Niagara Falls Board of Museums, uses the Battle Ground Hotel Museum as a stage Wednesday during the announcement of Celebration 2012, the first event leading up to celebrations for the Bicentennial of the War of 1812.
Members of the Niagara Regional Police, like Const. Mark Sathmary, Port Colborne fire department and PoCoMAR will be in the harbour Saturday for a water safety awareness event.
Fredrick Waistell Jopling Mackenzie House from the Niagara Historical Society & Museum collection.
David Mole of Niagara Classic Cabs fuels up a taxi cab at a gas pump. With increased fuel costs, many tourism operators that use vehicles have taken a hit in their wallets.
