FALL 2020
President's Message LISA ETIENNE It was my great pleasure to be able to present the Lifetime Volunteer Award to Margaret Kalogeropoulos in her beautiful backyard on Sunday July 5th and the Volunteer of the Year Award to Rick Waters after a Thursday hike in Jordan on July 23rd. Certainly, I would have preferred to present the awards at our AGM in April, but we all know nothing is proceeding as planned this year. I was also able to give a small gift of appreciation from the club to Margaret Northfield for setting up the AGM online. Continued on Page 2
| The Grapevine Fall 2020 2020-2021 NBTC From Page One Board of Directors What a relief when we • PRESIDENT Lisa Etienne received the great news on • PAST PRESIDENT June 2nd that most of the Trail Debbie Demizio had reopened. It didn’t take • VICE-PRESIDENT Alicia Aitchison long for word to spread and • CLUB SECRETARY to see groups of five hiking Janet Davey regularly. In July, when the • CLUB TREASURER Marinus Koole province moved into Stage 2 • PUBLIC RELATIONS AND PUBLICITY and groups of ten were DIRECTOR permitted, the BTC got to Margaret Northfield • LAND STEWARDSHIP DIRECTOR work immediately to update Vince Zvonar the hiking calendar with an • TRAIL MAINTENANCE DIRECTOR online waiver. Huge thank Rick Waters • LAND SECUREMENT SECRETARIAT you to Alan Laver for setting DIRECTOR the example for how to Craig Church schedule a hike so that • LANDOWNER RELATIONS/LSS ALTERNATE everyone who wanted to hike Klari Kalkman was accommodated. They • BTC BOARD REPRESENTATIVE were scheduled into Corrie Kellestine • MEMBERSHIP/VOLUNTEER staggered groups of ten with a leader for each group, sometimes with COORDINATOR different start locations. A difficult task that he made look easy. George Prins • HIKE COORDINATOR Things are still going to be different for a while. Bruce Trail Day has Alan Laver been moved online and our Annual Landowners Appreciation Dinner • NEWSLETTER EDITOR Kathleen Orth has been cancelled. We will still be reaching out to our Landowners to • ARCHIVIST deliver their beautiful 2021 BTC Wall Calendar and to say thank you for Jean Stephenson-Lucente letting everyone hike the section of the trail that passes through their • SOCIAL CONVENER Diane Marlatt property. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Klari • DIRECTOR AT LARGE Kalkman for volunteering to serve as the Landowners Relations Rhys D. Beak Director. I would also like to thank Kathleen Orth, Wendy NIAGARA BRUCE TRAIL CLUB Larman, and Margaret Northfield for representing our club on E AIL the BTC Membership Task Force. Their EB ITE responses were incredibly detailed and ACEB provided vital information and T ITTER direction to the task IN TAGRA force.