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Local Businesses support Muskoka Community Foundation and the Community Fund for Canada’s 150th

Fowler Construction and Paul Davis Systems of Muskoka supported the Muskoka Community Foundation and the Community Fund for Canada’s 150th by making generous donations to the Smart and Caring Muskoka Fund.

Moreen Miller, President of Fowler Construction and Marg French, Chair of the Muskoka Community Foundation.

Gord Durnan, Vice Chair Muskoka Community Foundation and Brent MacDonald, Paul Davis Systems Muskoka

 

Muskoka Community Foundation’s Gord Durnan on Hunters Bay Radio

Muskoka Community Foundation Vice-Chair, Gord Durnan, was interviewed by Hunters Bay Radio host Katrina Scarlett.  Thank you to Hunters Bay Radio, 88.7 FM and Katrina for a the opportunity to share the work we do with your listeners.   To hear the full interview click on the links below.

 

 

 

2016 Stan Darling Environmental Education Awards Fund Recipients

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Stan Darling Environmental Education Award Fund:

Jennah Mcintyre – Almaguin Highlands Secondary School
Laiken Pratt – Gravenhurst High School
Kameron Kirbyson – St. Dominic’s Catholic Secondary School…
Rebecca Jackson – Bracebridge Muskoka Lakes Secondary School
Katherine Beirnes – Parry Sound High School
Kelsey Lang – Huntsville High School

The Stan Darling Environmental Education Award Fund was established at Muskoka Community Foundation in April 2010 in memory of Stan Darling, MP for Parry-Sound Muskoka.  Mr. Darling was an active environmentalist, and was instrumental in establishing the Acid Rain Treaty with the USA in 1991. 

Grants are awarded each June to a student from each of the area’s six high schools in the Muskoka – Parry Sound region who is pursuing a post-secondary education with a focus on environmental studies at a Canadian College or University. Recipients are selected by their teachers based on their demonstrated commitment and service to community environmental issues, academic achievement and record of participation in volunteer and extracurricular activities. Since the creation of the Fund $62,600 has been awarded.

Commitment to reconciliation

As a Community Foundation operating on the traditional lands of the Ojibway, the Chippewa, the Algonquin and the Odawa, and home to three sovereign nations – Wahta Mohawks First Nations, Moose Deer Point First Nation and the Moon River Métis – we cannot walk in a good way if we do not honour all our relations in our communities, and actively work to address the impacts of colonialism on Indigenous peoples on these lands, both past and present. Read More

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