Maggie is currently working on Marjorie received Edmonton Social Two Of Edmonton's Soc'a residential schools healing and rec- Planning Council's 2001 Award of onciliation issues. Her work serves Recognition and in 2003, she re- Activists Honoured to support the Alternative Dispute ceived the Distinguished Alumni Resolution process to resolve cases Award from Grant MacEwan Com- Order Of Canada outside of court. munity College. She is a wife, mother, grandmother On February 3, 2006 Marjorie was and an auntie who has helped raise appointed a Member of the Order COLLEEN CHAPMAN other children. And this writer can of Canada in the category of Social Edmonton has recently been blessed attest to the fact that she is a fiercely Science, Marjorie also received the friend. with the honouring of two of the loyal Maggie values building Alberta Centennial Medal for out- City's most tireless workers in the relationships in families of com- standing achievements and contri- category of Social Sciences. Two munities within the limits of our butions to the community. women, well known in city circles, humanity and with the Creator's have been named to the Order of guiding hand. Marjoie says she is "humbled" by Canada: Dr. Maggie Hodgson, this honour, but she mostly wanted named as an Officer of the Order of to talk about the Food Bank. This Canada, and Marjorie Bencz, named year marks the twenty-fift- h year of as Member of the Order of Canada. its existence and, quite frankly, Mar- jorie would vastly prefer to work Dr. Maggie Hodgson is a member of r herself out of a job. This is goal is the Carrier Nation who has worked unlikely to be reached in the near nationally and internationally on Maggie has spoken at hundreds of future as a recent month saw 14,000 conferences on the Justice and Healing initiatives. successes and served. Keep up the good work! challenges of Aboriginal communi- mm Maggie worked in the Justice arena for fourteen years, and in education ties. and healing for fifteen years, She was the chief lobbyist for the first She has received many awards for "Healing Our Spirit World Wide her work in community develop- from Gathering" held in Edmonton, Al- ment various organizations berta with 3200 people participating such as the National Aboriginal r; from across the world. Achievement Award, the United Nations Community Development Marjorie Bencz has been Executive Volunteer Award, the Canadian Public Health Director of the Edmonton Glean- Maggie spearheaded a National of the month Health Promotions initiative cel- Community Development Award ers Association'Edmonton's Food Way to Carey;; ebrating success campaign called Association, the Alberta Aboriginal Bank", since 1989. She has been go Role Model Al- "Keep the, Circle Strong". This Award, the Alberta with the organization since 1987. coholism and Drug Abuse Commis- initiative started with twenty-fiv- e communities and has enjoyed the sion Award of Excellence, "Healing Some of Marjorie's post-seconda- ry participation of 1500 communities Our Spirit World Wide" Internation- education, related to the non-prof- it Award Inter- across Canada. She has presented al for Leadership in sector, include a National Certificate at many conferences across Canada, national Development from Health in Voluntary & Non-Prof- it Sector the United States, Australia, New Canada in New Zealand, and the Management, and she is a graduate Canadian Zealand, France, Germany and Nor- Centre of Substance of Grant MacEwan College's Volun- Abuse of Excellence. way on community healing. She Award Moreo- tary Sector Management Program. ver, she has been a community developer, was acknowledged by two universities with doctor- past-cha- ir Ed- church and government policy lob- honorary Marjorie is a of the The Tooth Fairy ates: the University of Alberta and monton Loan Community Fund, byist, co-auth- or of four books, and is Real! St. Paul's low-inco- me has managed an Aboriginal educa- University in Ottawa. Last which provides loans to She visited Mother year, because of her work spear- people so they can start small busi- tion research and health promotions School'. - heading a grass roots movement, nesses. She is on leave as a Rotarian. Theresa's institute for eighteen years. Thirty-eig- ht colleges and universities National Day of Healing and Rec- She is also on the Executive of the utilize one of the books, "Nation to onciliation, working with national Alberta Food Bank Network As- Nation". The proceeds from her leaders in the Japanese, Chinese, sociation (AFBNA) and is the past Ukrainian, writing serve to provide bursaries Jewish and Aboriginal Chair of the Canadian Association for third world students to study communities to take part in healing of Food Banks (CAFB). Marjorie is initiatives addictions. She has been involved regarding harm done by a Board member of the Edmonton government policies, Community Foundation. in the development of six non-prof- it societies and foundations, locally, nationally and internationally. She Maggie was one of the 1,000 Women In April of 1997, Marjorie was rec- of the World who has been on twelve boards of direc- were nominated ognized as a Distinguished Citizen tors for service organizations, and for a Nobel Peace Prize. Most re- and received an honorary diploma cently, on February 3, 2006, has been involved in national televi- Maggie in Health and Community Studies sion productions on family violence. was honoured with being named an from Grant MacEwan Community Officer to the Order of Canada. College and was Global TV's Wom- an of Vision for December 2000. March 2006 Boyle McCauley Newt ditor's Notes COLLEEN CHAPMAN Lawrence I lerzog, in an issue of the Key Porter Books, Released;03 May, 2002. Real Estate Weekly said, "Edmonton's Yovella has written a timely piece on 'Church Street,' more commonly known colon cancer, which just happens to tie as 96th Street, was once cited by Ripley's in with David Suzuki's list of things we Believe it or Not as having the largest can do to help our environment - eat one concentration of churches in the world. meatless meal per week. There's no way to verify if the citation is accurate, but the street's dozen churches Joan MacKinlay attended the first Men's are certainly significant". This story was Wellness Forum held at Santa Maria the impetus for the desire to explore the Goretti this past month. history of the churches in our neighbor- hood. When 1 first moved to Edmonton And we are going to have a colouring thirty-thre- e years ago I also heard that contest! Teachers may copy the picture Carey Traschuk made up of an interesting mix of people story about Ripley's. We have a rich and - please drop off entries to Sacred Heart Volunteer of the Month with interesting stories if one stops to diverse history which should be celebrat- 5chool, Room 224 - there is an envelope listen to them. ed at every opportunity. This month we taped on the door if no one is in the of- Carey Taschuk has lived in the Boyle look at St. Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic fice. area for 15 years. He joined the Boyle Outside of volunteering for us, Carey Cathedral, one of the most beautiful McCauley Newspaper volunteers as a works at Zocalos. He enjoys biking, buildings in our city. As we went to press, we received notice - carrier last April after he "was told he reading, gardening, and eating food that iHuman has found a home! We will had to by Garry Spotowski". However, - when it's cooked for him. Maybe we'll In last month's issue we used informa- try to let you know all about it in our this coaxing has given him a way to be have to do that for him as he has one of tion about black pioneer John Ware April issue. involved with the communities and give the largest routes in Boyle and doesn't without crediting the source: CanQuiz, something back to the community. He have a car. Thanks for all your help AuthorsrAlastair Sweeny, Manufacturer: Cheers. has learned that our communities are Carey! It is appreciated. The Boyle McCauley News is a non-prof- it newspaper published monthly by the Boyle Street McCauley Community Newspaper Society. The Society is made up of people who live and work in the Boyle Street and McCauley neighbourhoods. Opinions ex- pressed in the newspaper are not necessarily those of the Board of Directors. Any submissions may be subject to editing for length and suitability. Boyle McCauley Neivs est 1979 Vol. 27, No. 2 March 2006 -- . 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