<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s great to see Susan’s decades of water protection be recognized. Additional details are below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Keep up the great work Susan!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kevin.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Wellington Water Watchers <<a href="mailto:info@wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca" class="">info@wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">We have a winner! Congratulations to Helen Mills on this World Water Day!</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">March 22, 2022 at 9:05:31 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Kevin Thomason <<a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com" class="">kevinthomason@mac.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><table border="0" width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><table width="600" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" class="container" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 30px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Calibri, sans-serif; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px;" class=""><div style="width: 220px;" class=""><a href="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/?e=e855a972bca7655073e0e4acb197de0c&utm_source=wellingtonwaterwatchers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wwd_awardwinner&n=1" class=""><img src="http://assets.nationbuilder.com/wellingtonwaterwatchers/sites/1/meta_images/original/Water-Watchers-logo-sq-rounded-150pxH.png?1576868456" alt="Wellington Water Watchers" border="0" width="220" height="auto" style="width: 220px; height: auto;" class=""></a></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td class="body-content" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 30px; text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class="">Kevin --</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">On this World Water Day, we are excited to announce</span><strong class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the recipient of the 2022 Hugh Whiteley Lifetime Achievement Award is Helen Mills!</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">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><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><strong class=""><img src="https://assets.nationbuilder.com/wellingtonwaterwatchers/mailings/1755/attachments/original/Helen_Bio_Pic_for_Luminato.jpg?1647920767" alt="" width="242" height="294" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class=""></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><strong class="">Helen Mills is Founder and Co-Director of Lost Rivers (Toronto Green Community) and Founder of RAINscapeTO and Rivers Rising,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">as well as numerous other water and watershed-related initia</span><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">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="">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=""><strong class="">Susan Bryant<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong class="">Deborah Gordon</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>were also finalists for the award. Susan Bryan</span><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">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="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">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=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">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 on the foundations laid by today’s fierce water advocates.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/donate?e=e855a972bca7655073e0e4acb197de0c&utm_source=wellingtonwaterwatchers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wwd_awardwinner&n=2" style="color: rgb(20, 136, 185);" class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">Please consider donating to expand this important heritage for the present and the future.<br class=""></span></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">On Thursday March 24th at 7pm we will celebrate these extraordinary water advocates at the Water Watchers Award Gala <a 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="">RSVP today and join us in celebrating with water protectors, HWLAA winner Helen Mills, keynote speaker Sarain Fox, and live music from The Lifers</a></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;" class="">Thank you,</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class="">Wellington Water Watchers</p><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" class=""><em class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class=""><strong class="">P.S. -</strong> <a href="https://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/donate?e=e855a972bca7655073e0e4acb197de0c&utm_source=wellingtonwaterwatchers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wwd_awardwinner&n=4" style="color: rgb(20, 136, 185);" class="">You can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">make a donation to support expanding the legacy of these extraordinary water protectors here.</strong></a></span></em></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><hr class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;" class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/?e=e855a972bca7655073e0e4acb197de0c&utm_source=wellingtonwaterwatchers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wwd_awardwinner&n=5" style="color: rgb(20, 136, 185);" class=""></a><a href="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/?e=e855a972bca7655073e0e4acb197de0c&utm_source=wellingtonwaterwatchers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wwd_awardwinner&n=6" style="color: rgb(20, 136, 185);" class="">http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/</a></p></td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Calibri, sans-serif; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 30px;" class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5;" class="">Wellington Water Watchers · Canada<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">This email was sent to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com" style="color: rgb(20, 136, 185);" class="">kevinthomason@mac.com</a>. 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