Greely's Kay Johnston recognized for life-long volunteering
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Emma Jackson
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EMC News - Greely resident and long-time volunteer Kay Johnston was awarded the Mayor's City Builder Award on Wednesday, Jan. 25 for her commitment to helping those around her.
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Greely resident Kay Johnston received the Mayor's City Builder Award in January.
Johnston, 80, has lived in Greely for nearly 50 years, and has spent much of that time volunteering for various charitable and community programs around the ward. She was an instrumental fundraiser for the Township of Osgoode Care Centre in the 1980s and has been volunteering and fundraising for the centre ever since.
She has donated her time to the Osgoode Home Support Program, the Catholic Women's League and the Parish Church Council Board. She sits on the Osgoode Ward advisory committee and the Winchester Hospital fundraising board and is president of the Gloucester South Seniors Club.
For more than 60 years, Johnston has been an active member of the Women's Institute in Vernon. Johnston said at her 80th birthday party in October that she doesn't need recognition for what she does, because it's not a chore.
"It comes to me naturally. I've always done it, I like to do it," she said. Johnston was born in Prince Edward Island where she worked for her family's business doing "muscle work" that she says kids these days can't even imagine. She moved to Ottawa in 1950 and began working for the federal government's finance department, where she stayed for 35 years.
She moved to the Greely area in 1965 to raise her family of three girls and a boy, and has been involved in a huge range of community activities ever since. According to a city press release, the city builder award is a monthly civic honour created by Mayor Jim Watson to recognize an individual, group or organization that has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to making our city a better place today and for the future.
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