Community Builders Awards of Excellence

Community Builder Awards

2007 Winners
Arts

Dr. Metro Kozak
Dr. Metro Kozak

There was a time at the end of the 1960s when man walked on the moon, and opportunities and possibilities seemed endless for young, talented and well-educated people. Metro Kozak, a gifted musician, had just completed his doctorate in musical arts.
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Economic Development
Dalron Construction Ltd.
Dalron Construction Ltd.

Ron Arnold admits he didn’t know much about building houses in 1969 when he and his father, Oscar, built the first Dalron home in Hanmer. “Thank God I didn’t know much about it, I wouldn’t have got into it,”...
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Education
Sister Rachelle Waiter
Sister Rachelle Waiter

Sister Rachelle Watier, principal of Collège Notre Dame, is the winner of the 2007 Community Builders Award of Excellence for Education. However, the diminutive educator, who has mentored and inspired thousands of young people, considers herself a “Builder of Community Builders.”
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Environment
Franco Mariotti
Franco Mariotti

Franco Mariotti has been translating natural science into everyday English for visitors to Science North since it opened more than two decades ago. He has also made hundreds of presentations to community groups, and was co-host of the Down to Earth television show for six years.
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Health Care
Dr. Raydu Koka
Dr. Raydu Koka

Afew days into the new year, Northern Life reported, “The city’s mental health services will be back in local hands by spring.” The news article reported the province was on track in implementing the Ken White Report, which recommended the transfer of local and district community mental health and addiction programs and beds, to the Sudbury Regional Hospital
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Junior Citizen
Student Advisory Team S.S.S.
Student Advisory Team S.S.S.

One open door has meant the world of difference to students at Sudbury Secondary School (SSS). The door was open four years ago by a concerned group of teachers, and most importantly, students. They created the Student Advisory Team (SAT)
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Sports And Recreation
Joe MacDonald
Joe MacDonald
Youth Football League

No doubt Joe MacDonald and Sid Forster are looking down and smiling over the success of a minor football program that has introduced several hundred players to the game they loved.
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Hall of Fame

Floyd Laughren
Floyd Laughren

This year’s Community Builders Awards Hall of Fame winner will be remembered as a member of the small army of people who supported this community during the bad times of the late 1970s and 1980s. He continued to do so during the good times to ensure the community would survive the future cycles of a boom and bust economy.
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