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We need a new word for water warriors like Susan who toil so effectively over the long haul. I propose "wetteran".</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> March 22, 2022 9:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Grand River Environmental Network (GREN) <all@gren.ca><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [All] We have a winner! Congratulations to Helen Mills on this World Water Day!</font>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">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="">It’s great to see Susan’s decades of water protection be recognized. Additional details are below.</div>
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<div class="">Keep up the great work Susan!</div>
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style=""><b class="">We have a winner! Congratulations to Helen Mills on this World Water Day!</b><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="">March 22, 2022 at 9:05:31 AM EDT<br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">To: </b></span><span class="" style="">Kevin Thomason <<a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com" class="">kevinthomason@mac.com</a>><br class="">
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:1em"><span class="" style="font-weight:400">On this World Water Day, we are excited to announce</span><strong class=""><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>the recipient of the 2022 Hugh Whiteley Lifetime Achievement
Award is Helen Mills!</strong><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="" style="font-weight:400">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 class="" style="margin-bottom:1em"><strong class="">Helen Mills is Founder and Co-Director of Lost Rivers (Toronto Green Community) and Founder of RAINscapeTO and Rivers Rising,<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span class="" style="font-weight:400">as
well as numerous other water and watershed-related initia</span><span class="" style="font-weight:400">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 class="" style="font-weight:400">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 class="" style="margin-bottom:1em"><strong class="">Susan Bryant<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><span class="" style="font-weight:400">and<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong class="">Deborah Gordon</strong><span class="" style="font-weight:400"><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>were
also finalists for the award. Susan Bryan</span><span class="" style="font-weight:400">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="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-weight:400">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 class="" style="margin-bottom:1em"><span class="" style="font-weight:400">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="x_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" class="" style="color:rgb(20,136,185)"><span class="" style="font-weight:400">Please
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:1em"><span class="" style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span class="" style="font-weight:400">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" class="" style="color:rgb(20,136,185)">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>
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