Past Recipients

The following is a list of past Volunteer Award recipients. 

2022 Volunteer Award Recipients

We would like to recognize the volunteers and community groups who were selected to receive a 2022 Volunteer Award.

 

District 1

  • Louise Brooking-McDow
  • Andrea Forrest
  • Louise MacDonald
  • Jackson McNeil (Youth)
  • Lauren Peveril (Youth)
  • Kirk Stephen
  • Barry Dalrymple

District 2

  • Wendy Vaughan MacKenzie
  • Olivia Matheson (Youth)
  • Pat Wilcott

District 3

  • Anthony Brown
  • Ahmed El Bouwab
  • Shyla Gupta
  • Peter Lee
  • Kelly Legato
  • James MacDonald
  • Renée Graziella Gandon-Thomas
  • Dion Thomas-Hodges

District 4

  • Scott Collens
  • Robin Veinotte
  • John Zorychta

District 5

  • Shabad Kaur (Youth)
  • Heather Ritchie
  • Peter Walker

District 6

  • Clark MacIntosh
  • Jane Matthews
  • Liz McPhail
  • Greg Milner

District 7

  • Loukman Ghouti
  • Sarah Greening
  • Aline Maybank
  • Aarushi Patil (Youth)
  • Linxi Zhang

District 8

  • Mustafa, Muhammed & Omar Antebi
  • Lynn Barrett
  • Sofia Julianne So

District 10

  • Mohammad Ehsan
  • Indrasena
  • Weerasinghe

District 11

  • Kathleen Hall
  • Paul Hunt
  • Linda Stewart

District 12

  • Zoya Hussain (Youth)
  • Bob Angus
  • Kate Xinyi He

     

District 13

  • Sarah Finkle (Youth)
  • Sharon Jessup Joyce
  • Jim Steffens

District 14

  • Sean Bowes (Youth)
  • Luke Webb (Youth)
  • Walter Fekeshazy

District 15

  • Micaiah Aladejebi (Youth)
  • Ashley Butler

District 16

  • Daphnée de Lamirande
  • Margaret Gullage
  • Farhan Pir Muhammad
  • Abby Nagar (Youth)
  • Michael Ruan
  • Sonia Verabioff
  • Mitchell Zussman

Community Group Awards:

  • Asiah Sparks (Youth) – Volunteer of the Year
  • English Conversation Group – Group Award #1
  • The Friends of First Lake Society – Group Award #2
  • Multicultural Drummers (Malaria Warriors) – Youth Award

The following individuals were also provincial award recipients:

  • Lauren Peveril
  • Pat Wilcott,
  • Asiah Sparks
  • Loukman Ghouti
  • Aline Maybank
  • Heather Nicole McGrath
  • Mohammad Ehsan
  • Daphnée de Lamirande
  • Margaret Gullage 
  • Michael Ryan

2021 Volunteer Award Recipients

Each year during National Volunteer Week, the Halifax Regional Municipality holds an award ceremony to acknowledge and honour the contributions of volunteers and volunteer organizations in our communities. While our celebration had to be postponed this year, we would like to recognize the volunteers and community groups who were selected to receive a 2021 Volunteer Award. Please join us in thanking these exceptional community volunteers and organizations.

District 1

  • Jay Cameron

District 2

  • Leanne Hines
  • Karen MacRoberts
  • Neil Parnell
  • Paige Williams

District 3

  • Shelly Bhardwaj
  • Allan Carrington
  • Gloria Mannette
  • Layla McFadden
  • Doug Pickrem
  • Teresa Trider

District 4

  • John Brant
  • Michael Cutcliffe
  • Judie and Jim Edgar
  • Sean François
  • Michael R. Klenavic
  • Philip Love

District 5

  • Jeff Aucoin
  • Natasha Beuree-Edwards
  • Michelle Thornhill

District 6

  • Dee Vipond

District 7

  • Shikha Sarah Gupta
  • Thomas Williams
  • Kendall R. Worth
  • Julia Meredith Wright

District 8

  • Marion Lakenman
  • Chris Felix
  • Mike Beamish
  • Eptehal Nashnoush
  • Melbourne Neily
  • Erin Poirier

District 10

  • Abraham Amusan
  • Helga Cunningham
  • Kimberley Wotherspoon

District 11

  • Dorothy Mitchell
  • Martina Redden
  • Maureen Yeadon
  • Kathy Powell

District 12

  • Jerjis Kapra
  • Colleen Rollings
  • Jacquelyn Stevenson

District 13

  • Beverly Carlsen
  • Chris Pelham

District 14

  • Gary Carter Jr.
  • Lyle Mailman
  • Gwendolyn Marsh

District 16

  • Jeffrey Koscik
  • Sydney Mogae

Volunteer of the Year

Kiyana Kamali – Volunteer of the Year

Provincial Award Winners

Kiyana Kamali

Judie Edgar

Jim Edgar

Kendall Worth

Colleen Rollings

Jeff Aucoin

Lyle Mailman

Natasha Beuree-Edwards

Julia Meredith-Wright

Martina Redden

Group Awards

Group Awards – Category 1

Change is Brewing Collective

Group Awards – Category 2

Autism Nova Scotia

2020 Volunteer Award Recipients 

We would like to recognize the volunteers and community groups who were selected to receive a 2020 Volunteer Award.

District 1

  • Jacob Lucas Andre Boudreau (Youth)
  • Marilyn Clarke

District 2

  • Brenda Brooks
  • Kenny Dolomont
  • Sha’ondra Downey
  • Rhonda M. Frank
  • Dylan Mackenzie (Youth)
  • Gwyn Osborne (Youth)
  • Grace Robinson-Crawley (Youth)
  • Kent Smith
  • Marilyn A. Smith
  • Leah Stienburg (Youth)
  • Gary Stronach

District 3

  • Dilkeerat Dhillon
  • Joseph Yurchesyn (Youth)

District 4

  • Bryanna Banfield (Youth)
  • Harvey Foston
  • Chloe Hovey (Youth)

District 5

  • Bonie Moore (Conrad)
  • Pat Moffatt
  • Jennifer Waugh (Youth)
  • Dianne West

District 6

  • Gail Boyle
  • Alden Killen
  • Joy Laing
  • Rainie Murphy
  • Lynn Orton
  • Britanny Peters
  • Phil Power

District 7

  • Bob Goodall and Ann Marie Tompkins
  • Brian L. Maloney
  • Yolana Wassersug

District 8

  • Sophia Junfang Fu

District 9

  • Yasmin Abd El-Rahaman (Youth)
  • Karema Alarabi (Youth)
  • Mohamed Nashnoush (Youth)
  • Marco Redden
  • Gracie Walker (Youth)

District 10

  • Andrew Curran
  • Adora Fernando (Youth)
  • Teresa Flinn
  • Amber Thornton (Youth)

District 11

  • Bonnie Conrad
  • Gizelle de Guzman
  • Haillie Hersey (Youth)
  • Daryl Joseph

District 12

  • Ifeoma Esonwune
  • George Findlay
  • Brian Johnson
  • Faris Kapra
  • Linda Lawlor
  • Joseph MacPherson
  • Ratnam Mohan
  • Dr. Genlou Sun

District 13

  • Irekanmi Awoyiga (Youth)
  • James Mitchell
  • Coady Monk (Youth)
  • Caitlin Slauenwhite (Youth)
  • Alex Stapleton (Youth)

District 14

  • Roberta Hibbert
  • Twan Jansen
  • Victor Sampson
  • Janice West

District 15

  • Tom LeBlanc

District 16

  • Stephanie Graham
  • Alexander Hancox
  • Madeline Harper (Youth)
  • Darrell Johnston
  • Tanya MacLennan-Scott
  • Edward John McHugh
  • Christina Ruan
  • Dr. Yonggan Zhao

Community Group Awards

Community Group (Community Group with Annual Finances Under 50,000): Ketch Harbour Area Residents Association (KHARA) - District 11
Community Group (Community Group with Annual Finances exceeding $50,000): The Friends of the Public Gardens - District 7
Community Group (Youth): Chebucto Minor Hockey Association – Junior Coach Leadership Program - District 11

2019 Volunteer Award Recipients 

The following residents were awarded 2019 Halifax Regional Municipality Volunteer Awards. Additional awards as noted.

District 1

  • Brooke Clarke
  • Michele Flemming
  • Abby Hanson
  • Ella Hanson
  • Pat Healey
  • Sarah Jane MacDonald-Miles (Provincial Award Recipient) 
  • Lee Muir-Buckley
  • Nick Yeomans

District 2

  • Robert Downey
  • Gina Dunn
  • Melda Hodder (Provincial Award Recipient) 
  • Jennie MacKenzie (Provincial Award Recipient)
  • Katrina Manette
  • Donald Mosher
  • Shaquille Smith
  • Juliette Thomas

District 3

  • Reva Bhardwaj
  • Scott Connolly
  • Eric Alexander Gallant
  • Dalyce Mallion (Provincial Award Recipient)
  • Michelle Myers
  • Shelby Myers
  • Wendy Smith
  • Hugh & Dorothy Webber
  • Julia Yurchesyn

District 4

  • Steve Carr
  • Emme Morin
  • James Ryan
  • Gilbert (Gil) Smith

District 5

  • Holly Blackler
  • Jayne Dempsey
  • Miranda Koivu

District 6

  • Norm Collins
  • Kristen Coveyduc
  • Kayley Dixon (Provincial Award Recipient)
  • Graham Greene (Provincial Award Recipient)
  • Sarah White

District 7

  • Joseph Allen
  • Tahmina Dewan (Provincial Award Recipient)
  • Andres Guardia
  • Robert Shaw (HRM Volunteer of the Year) (Provincial Award Recipient)

District 8

  • Daphne & Steven Beeler
  • Diane Chiasson
  • Ray Fernandes
  • Taya Hooper-Dixon
  • Milena Khazanavicius

District 9

  • Terri M. Roberts (Provincial Award Recipient)
  • Sean Wang

District 10

  • David J. Aalders (Provincial Award Recipient)
  • Aya Ali
  • Dennis R. Peters

District 11

  • Atiqullah Amiri
  • Usha K. Goel
  • Kate Jollimore

District 12

  • Aseel Mohammed Ali
  • Denise Chisholm
  • Nikunjkumar Kachhadiya
  • Alice Walsh

District 13

  • Patti Peters

District 14

  • Collette Berezowski
  • Caroline Gallop
  • Ann McCulloch

District 15

  • Rachel Donovan
  • Allan Smith

District 16

  • David Bathurst
  • Geneviève Doiron
  • Abigail Harper
  • Emily Rudderham

Community Group Awards

Community Group, Category 1 - Victim Services Volunteer Association
Community Group, Category 2 - Acadia Recreation Club Society
Community Group Youth - Helping the Earth while Acting Together (H.E.A.T.)

2018 Volunteer Award Recipients 

The following residents were awarded 2018 Halifax Regional Municipality Volunteer Awards.

District 1

  • Barbara Bell
  • Braden Marshall
  • Erika Pineo
  • Lucky Sharpe

District 2

  • Lorri Arnold
  • Anne Bennett
  • Ronald Edward David
  • Carole Jones
  • David George Kerr
  • Ivory Provo
  • Shirley Tolhurst

District 3

  • Vishal Bhardwaj
  • Ron Burbidge
  • David Currie
  • Linda Forward
  • Lorne Perry
  • Chris Peters
  • Georgia Ayre
  • Anne Yurchesyn

District 4

  • Rick Betyna
  • Susan Steele
  • Mekayla Bull
  • Allison Flewwelling

District 5

  • William Joseph Tait

District 6

  • Arthur Bennett
  • Jack Martin
  • Barbra Minard
  • Nathalie Prud'homme
  • Anthony Sarto Morrison

District 7

  • Wenceslao Amezcua
  • Ding Fan
  • Dave Jones
  • Meredith Otley

District 8

  • Rodin Leitão
  • Joanne Light

District 9

  • Robert Bray
  • Charles Fonseca
  • Saida Gazie
  • Anil K Rana

District 10

  • Judy Arbique
  • Juliana Murphy

District 11

  • Vince Norris
  • Scott Reinhardt
  • Logan Henderson

District 12

  • Natalie Bishop
  • Essam Hashish
  • Bob Purcell

District 13

  • Nicholas Horne
  • Alex MacAulay
  • Ailie Sullivan

District 14

  • Christine Jamieson
  • Ron & Judy MacIntosh
  • Sue McLearn
  • Peter Stackaruk

District 15

  • Wilma Treen
  • Mallory Hookey

District 16

  • Kacy Burn
  • Terry Choyce
  • Nicole Martell
  • Kathleen Pellerine
  • Diane Swanzey
  • Victor Tétrault
  • Skyler Boylan

Community Group Awards

Category 1 Sheet Harbour Lions Club (District 2)

Category 2 Frontier College Organizational Team (District 16)