Starting in 2012, the VRC has held an annual award ceremony recognizing Outstanding Volunteers from across the province.
Non-profit organizations and associations in Prince Edward Island are invited to nominate an outstanding volunteer for special recognition. The selected outstanding volunteers are recognized at the Voluntary Resource Council’s annual Breakfast Gala held in the fall.
Andrea MacPherson PEERS Alliance
Monica MacKinnon Lung NSPEI
PEI 4 Palestine Island Peace Committee
Andrew Lush the PEI Watershed Alliance, with the Hunter-Clyde Watershed Group & Trout River Environmental Committee
Julie-Lynn Zahavich PEI Invasive Species Council, Canadian Invasive Species Council, The Atlantic Society of Fish and Wildlife Biologists
Rob and Marjorie Geiss Big Brother Big Sisters of PEI,
Marie Burge Outstanding Volunteer, and Recipient of the Leo Cheverie Lifetime Achievement Award
Jaime Arsenault Special Olympics PEI
Georgina Bassett IRSA
Dave Stewart PEERS Alliance
Chrystil Baytos Holland College Student Union
Charlene Hebert Georgetown Summer Days Committee
Beth Hoar PEI Invasive Species Council
Leo Garland People First
Khalid Elshami PEI Association for Newcomers
Shirley Gallant PEI Panmure Lighthouse Association
Cecil Villard PEI Special Olympics
Tomoyo Suzuki PEI WildChild Program Sierra Club
Leo Broderick, Council of Canadians
Irene Burge, Cooper Institute
Blair Corkum, Community Legal Information Association
Peter Dunfield, Canadian Cancer Society
Judy Herlihy, Women’s Network
Gerry Mawhinney, New London Community Complex
Heather Cutcliffe, Heart & Stroke Foundation
Irene Doyle, Parkinson Society PEI
Abby Goodwin, Charlottetown Rugby Football Club
Thomas Sherry, Friends of Seacow Head Lighthouse
Doug Sobey, Bedeque Area Historical Society
Tom Stewart, Pickle Ball Committee
Matt Lawrence, Dodgeball PEI
Rob Binns, Speed Skate PEI
Fraser Campbell, Colville Manor, Meals on Wheels & Ten Thousand Villages
Shannon Courtney, PEI Food Exchange
Fiep de Bie, Island Nature Trust
Don Glendenning, Education 20/20 Inc.
Panmure Island Lighthouse Restoration Committee, Panmure Island Lighthouse
Emily Wells, Farmers Helping Farmers
Juanita Boucher, Queen Elizabeth Elementary Home & School Association
Sarah Bulman, City Centre Community School & Young Voters of PEI
John Davison, Kensington & Area Chamber of Commerce
Joan Diamond, Holland College Green Machine & Pesticide Free PEI
Martin Marcoux, RDÉE îPÉ
Shaun Matheson, Football PEI
Barry Maze, Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty
Don Mazer, Citizen’s Alliance of PEI
Darcy Murnaghan, Special Olympics PEI
Maureen Kerr, Pesticide Free PEI
Maureen Larkin, Guatemala-Maritimes Breaking the Silence Network
Hazel MacMillan, Parkinson Society
Jordan MacPhee, ECO PEI
Rosemary McGuirk, PEI Council of People with Disabilities
Danielle Rochon, Big Brothers Big Sisters of PEI
Najam Chishti, Muslim Society of PEI Inc. & PEI Table Tennis Association
Ruby Cousins, Malpeque Historical Society
Helen Dawson, Uigg-Kinross-Grandview Women’s Institute
Susan Doiron, PEI Rape & Sexual Assault Centre
Henri & Gloria Gallant, Big Brothers Big Sisters of PEI
David MacCallum, Kiwanis Club of Charlottetown
Cindy Richards, PEI Citizens’ Alliance
Norm Fotheringham, Canadian Cancer Society
Melissa Good, Charlottetown People First
Samatha Harris, Big Brothers Big Sisters
Nancy MacLean-Eveson, Town of Souris
Amanda Moore, Canadian Parents for French
Chris Ortenburger, ECO PEI
Edith Perry, nominated by Cooper Institute for ALERT,
PEI Working Group for a Livable Income, NDP of PEI
Thane Smallwood, Scouts Canada
Joan McDonald, PEI Citizen Advocacy
Wendy Ross, Kids West Family Resource Centre
