Everyday Heroes for 2016 announced

This year there are 10 winners of the Upper Grand District School Board’s Everyday Hero Awards.

The winners were selected from a total of 43 “exceptional and deserving nominees,” board officials state.

This year’s Everyday Hero Awards recipients include dedicated volunteers, teachers, board staff, and others:

- Jen Edwards, volunteer, Erin Public School;

- Tina Meissner, volunteer, Ponsonby Public School;

- Aaron Duncan and Heather Walker, teachers, Rickson Ridge Public School;

- Fred Hoffman, volunteer, board-wide;

- Michelle Kearley, John Rawson, Leta Vos, Kathleen Dropka, Pam Mundy, Erin Leslie, Starlene Steiner, UGDSB Special Olympics Committee, various locations;

- Nicole Patton, Volunteer, Primrose Elementary School;

- Chad Reay, elementary curriculum leader, Grant Evans Education Centre;

- Patti Schopp, educational assistant, Waverley Drive Public School;

- Nancy Turner, volunteer, Credit Meadows Elementary School; and

- Mark Yanchus, teacher, John F. Ross CVI.

The criteria for the annual awards are: performance at a high level at all times, a significant school or system-related achievement, a specific innovation or achievement of significant value or importance to the system, or a unique circumstance worthy of recognition by the board.

Winners will be honoured at a reception at the E.L. Fox Auditorium at John F. Ross CVI at 7pm on June 1.