[All] Environmental Defence Canada Green Champion Award

Tue Mar 1 09:16:45 EST 2016

Great fodder for the upcoming GREN promotion campaign - the new and improved
GREN, now with national award-winning environmental activists! ;-)

Congratulations Kevin, and thank you for all your hard work...you're a great
role model for your baby-to-be!

Susan K 

From: All [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Kevin Thomason
Sent: 29 February 2016 21:13
To: GREN
Subject: Re: [All] Environmental Defence Canada Green Champion Award

Thank you for the congratulations and recognition!  

It is a huge honour to be the recipient of this national award.  However, as
I will be noting in my speech at the Gala on Thursday night so many of our
activities over the past decade and half be it ESL's, Greenbelts, Protected
Countryside, source-water protection, traffic issues, LRT, the Regional
Official Plan, etc. have been team efforts.  I am really accepting this
award on behalf of so many hardworking people here in Waterloo Region.

Together, we have done what they said couldn't be done and developed so many
precedent-setting initiatives that are helping to ensure Waterloo is a
global leader in so many ways.

The coming years ahead are going to be just as exciting with almost a dozen
priorities identified by GREN be it Provincial Greenbelt expansion,
recycling and landfill diversion opportunities, or the new Waterloo Region
Land Trust.

Lets keep moving forward and see what we can accomplish in the next decade.

Thanks again!

Kevin.

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On Feb 29, 2016, at 7:36 PM, Anne Morgan <annemorgan7 at gmail.com> wrote:

Congratulations Kevin. Very well deserved recognition for all your good
work.

Anne and Alan

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:38 PM, butterflybluelu
<butterflybluelu at rogers.com> wrote:

Way to go!

So many years of dedicated advocacy accomplishments.  Kevin has been there
making the system changes for so many years. This is great to see!

Well done! 

Lulu :0)

Sent from my Samsung device

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From: Deb Swidrovich <deswid at gmail.com> 
Date: 2016-02-29 3:41 PM (GMT-05:00) 
To: John Jackson <jjackson at web.ca>, "GREN >" <all at gren.ca> 
Subject: Re: [All] GREN Vice-Chair to be honoured by Environmental Defence
Canada 

Well deserved is right. Thank you Kevin for all that you do.

Deb Swidrovich

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.

From: John Jackson

Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 3:38 PM

To: GREN >

Subject: [All] GREN Vice-Chair to be honoured by Environmental Defence
Canada

Each year, Environmental Defence recognizes an outstanding individual whose
leadership has helped to create a greener and more prosperous Canada with
the Green Champion award. This year the Green Champion award recipient is
Kevin Thomason - an environmental advocate and a steadfast supporter of
Environmental Defence's Greenbelt program. 

Description in Gala Program: 

Green Champion

Kevin Thomason

Vice-Chair, Grand River Environmental Network

Kevin Thomason has been an environmental advocate for over 20 years.  As
President of the Sunfish Lake Association for more than a decade he played a
key role in regional efforts to promote a greenbelt plan for the Region of
Waterloo and urged regional council to approve policies to protect farmland
and preserve natural landscapes.  Kevin actively promotes support for the
Region of Waterloo's Light Rail Transit system which will support compact
growth and prevent sprawl and is a Co-Founder of SmartGrowth Waterloo.  

Congratulations Kevin, for this well deserved recognition.

John

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John Jackson

17 Major Street

Kitchener N2H 4R1

519-744-7503

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