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That is wonderful. Drip drip horray! <div><br></div><div>Lulu <br><br><br><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 9:36 AM, Greg Michalenko <gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv0398415992"><style type="text/css">#yiv0398415992 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}</style><div dir="ltr">
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<b>Subject:</b> [All] We have a winner! Congratulations to Helen Mills on this World Water Day!
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word;" class="yiv0398415992">Congratulations to our own GREN Executive member Susan Bryant for the recognition as one of finalists for the 2022 Hugh Whiteley Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Water Watchers!
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<div class="yiv0398415992">It’s great to see Susan’s decades of water protection be recognized. Additional details are below.</div>
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<div class="yiv0398415992">Keep up the great work Susan!</div>
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<div class="yiv0398415992">Cheers,</div>
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<span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);" class="yiv0398415992"><b class="yiv0398415992">From: </b></span><span style="" class="yiv0398415992">Wellington Water Watchers <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:info@wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca" href="mailto:info@wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca" class="yiv0398415992" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">info@wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca</a>><br clear="none" class="yiv0398415992">
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<span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);" class="yiv0398415992"><b class="yiv0398415992">Subject: </b></span><span style="" class="yiv0398415992"><b class="yiv0398415992">We have a winner! Congratulations to Helen Mills on this World Water Day!</b><br clear="none" class="yiv0398415992">
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<span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);" class="yiv0398415992"><b class="yiv0398415992">Date: </b></span><span style="" class="yiv0398415992">March 22, 2022 at 9:05:31 AM EDT<br clear="none" class="yiv0398415992">
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<p style="margin-bottom:1em;" class="yiv0398415992"><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992">On this World Water Day, we are excited to announce</span><strong class="yiv0398415992"><span class="yiv0398415992x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>the recipient of the 2022 Hugh Whiteley Lifetime Achievement
Award is Helen Mills!</strong><span class="yiv0398415992x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992">The annual award celebrates the activism, advocacy, and dedication of remarkable individuals to protecting water in their locale within the Canadian
Great Lakes Basin, and this year, we celebrate Helen for her extraordinary work.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:1em;" class="yiv0398415992"><strong class="yiv0398415992">Helen Mills is Founder and Co-Director of Lost Rivers (Toronto Green Community) and Founder of RAINscapeTO and Rivers Rising,<span class="yiv0398415992x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992">as
well as numerous other water and watershed-related initia</span><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992">tives. Helen has been a tireless champion of the environment, native plants and habitats, ecological education and, in particular, watersheds in Ontario,
particularly in the GTA.</span><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992">Helen’s quiet leadership, foresight and dedication to our Lost River Watersheds, as well as her dream of Blue Green cities in which water, landscape and all peoples live in healthy cohesion,
have inspired thousands and been utterly profound in helping people appreciate their intimate connections to the water systems that form an essential part of their lives.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:1em;" class="yiv0398415992"><strong class="yiv0398415992">Susan Bryant<span class="yiv0398415992x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992">and<span class="yiv0398415992x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong class="yiv0398415992">Deborah Gordon</strong><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992"><span class="yiv0398415992x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>were
also finalists for the award. Susan Bryan</span><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992">t is a remarkable community leader who has worked diligently to protect water in Elmira since 1989, including as a key member of the leadership team that successfully campaigned
against the Uniroyal corporation for allowing toxic chemicals to contaminate Elmira's drinking water. Deborah Gordon<span class="yiv0398415992x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992">has worked for decades to protect Lake Simcoe and
the Maskinonge River from pollution, sprawl and degradation, including with Save the Oak Ridges Moraine (STORM) as well as countless hours as a volunteer with Save the Maskinonge.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:1em;" class="yiv0398415992"><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992">We believe recognizing the amazing work happening across the Canadian Great Lakes to protect water is an important step to inspire the next generation of water protectors who build
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<p style="margin-bottom:1em;" class="yiv0398415992"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" class="yiv0398415992"><span style="font-weight:400;" class="yiv0398415992">On Thursday March 24th at 7pm we will celebrate these extraordinary water advocates at the Water Watchers Award Gala <a shape="rect" href="https://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/awards2022?e=e855a972bca7655073e0e4acb197de0c&utm_source=wellingtonwaterwatchers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wwd_awardwinner&n=3" style="color:rgb(20,136,185);" class="yiv0398415992" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RSVP
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