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Hugh Garner Green Roof Project earns Jim MacDonald Award for Social Change
Joanne Mick named Honorary Life Associate
The Board chose Joanne Mick for the award to recognize her extensive contribution to co‑operative housing in Canada. Mick was Executive Director of the Southern Alberta Co‑operative Housing Association (SACHA) for 15 years, served as Chair of CHF Canada’s Federations Committee for three years and was member at large on the CHF Canada Board from 2003 until 2006. Joanne Mick continues to be a member of Sarcee Meadows Housing Co‑op in Calgary where she has lived since 1987. Tolpuddle Jamie Ritchie CHF Canada recognizes co‑ops and other members who have supported us with continuous membership throughout the years. Here are the members that received an award this year with 20 and 30-years-of-service awards: 20-year member award winners Strathcona Housing Co‑operative 30-year member award winners Ramsay Heights Housing Co‑operative 20-year organization awards Northern Alberta Co‑operative Housing Association 30-year organization awards Columbia Housing Advisory Association |
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This year, CHF Canada presented the Jim MacDonald Award for Social Change to the Hugh Garner Green Roof Project. Toronto’s Hugh Garner Housing Co‑operative’s green rooftop project transformed the co‑op’s concrete high-rise rooftop into a green roof to both promote environmental sustainability and increase city green space. The project, once finished, will be the largest and most innovative in Ontario. In the long term it will improve the quality of life and reduce heating costs for the co‑op.
The CHF Canada Board of Directors presented Joanne Mick, Team Leader for The Agency for Co‑operative Housing in Calgary and Vancouver, with CHF Canada’s Honorary Life Associate Award at this year’s AGM in Winnipeg.