By JoAnn Grondin

Our Annual Dinner went very well despite some setbacks.  Many thanks to our volunteers, those who attended, our speaker Dennis Higgs and our MC Kory Renaud.  Although we used to get numbers in the 80’s attending, we were expecting 59 people this time.  This allowed us to do some social distancing at each table with 6 people instead of 8.  It was a very pleasant evening and I have lots of people to thank.  Without their help, this dinner could not have taken place. So, thank you to . . .

Paul Pratt receives his Award from Kory Renaud (photo by C.Hart)

Aileen Petrozzi for organizing the Silent Auction. (see below for list of contributors to the auction)

Ticket Sales:  Cathy Lapain, Aileen Petrozzi, Ojibway Nature Centre staff and JoAnn Grondin.  Our online ticket sales were coordinated by Kory Renaud.

Set up:  Pauline Renaud, Shirley Grondin, Aileen Petrozzi, Paul Petrozzi, Catherine Hogg, Kristen Derbyshire and JoAnn Grondin.

Reception Desk:  Pauline Renaud and Shirley Grondin.

Cashiers: Bonnie Ross, Cathy Lapain and Shirley Grondin.

Our MC:  Kory Renaud did an outstanding job as MC.

Paul Pratt and Patricia McGorman for giving brief tributes to our dear friend Betty Learmouth.

Denis Higgs from U Windsor giving an interesting talk on fish communication (photo by C.hart)

Congratulations to Paul Pratt, our Outstanding Achievement Award recipient, for all his hard work over the years.  Paul was one of the founding members involved in our Club start up.

Our Guest Speaker, Denis Higgs, for his interesting talk on Fish Communication even though the speaker system wouldn’t cooperate.    

To Dave Kraus for introducing our guest speaker and for thanking him.

To Pauline Renaud for drawing the names for the door prize winners. 

To the people who donated door prizes.  I don’t have all the names, so will just thank everyone collectively.

To the Legion staff for the setup, cooking and great service.

Thank you to all who attended.  It was great to see friends that I had not seen since COVID stopped the world.  The total evening turned out quite well!!

On behalf of the Heritage Committee we would like to thank all the donors that contributed to the Silent Auction. Thank you very much:

Some of the items up for auction

Mike Malone and Joan Walker                          Tracy Cameron  

Dave Kraus          Bonnie Ross                  Lee Valley           

Carl Maiolani                Karen Cedar                  Howard and Carol Williams

Cathy Lapain                 Joan Murphy-Walker   JoAnn Grondin             

Paul Pratt                      Linda Menard-Watt     Kenlyn Bryant              

Dan Loncke                   Shirley Grondin            Ferninanda Van Gennip

Pauline Renaud            Karen and Peter Kathmann

Catherine Hogg             Clare McAllister            Christine Gross