Awards

• Recipient of the 2024 'King Charles III Coronation Medal of Honour'

• Recipient of the 2025 'Community Champion Award'

• Recipient of the Volunteer of the Year Award

• Recipient of the 'Entrepreneur of the Year Award'

• Recipient of the 'Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal of Honour'

• Prestigious 'Patron of the Arts' Award,

• ‘Best’ Photography Studio in North Durham (14 years in a row)

• Ontario Heritage award

• Elected to the Mayor’s Honour Roll

• Honoured by Canada’s Minister of Veterans Affairs and
  leader of the official opposition

• Recipient of International Travel News '100+ Nations'
Award

• Received the esteemed 'Visited all of Europe' award

• Member of the 'Phileas Fogg' Award (in recognition of
  travelling to the same nations as the character in the
  Jules Verne novel 'Around the World in 80 Days'

• The 'Travelled to Six Continents' award

• Recipient of the admired 'Shellback' award celebrating
  the crossing of the equator, the international dateline
  and the zero meridian

• Recipient of the ' All Provinces and Territories' award for
  Canada

Achievements

CURRENT

• Board of Directors for the Assante Wealth Management
  Advisory Board (9 years)

• Member of the Port Perry Photographic Society

• Member of the Travellers' Century Club - more than 100
  countries visited

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PAST

• Member of the Township of Scugog Heritage Advisory
  Committee

• Board of Directors for Canadian Deafblind Rubella
  Association (10 years)

• Board of Directors for Junior Achievement of Central
  Ontario (4 years)

• Founder and President of the North Durham
Photographers Association

• 'M' Magazine photograph of the year Award

• Chair of the Kent Farndale Art Gallery (7 Years)

• Chair of the Kent Farndale Bursary for the Arts (6 years)

• Recipient of the Patron of the Arts Award

• Founder and President of the Port Perry Photographic
  Society

• Recipient of the Ontario Heritage Award

• Vice President and Treasurer of the Scugog Council for
  the Arts (5 years)

• Member of the Mayor's Honour Roll

• Board of Directors for the Scugog Memorial Public
  Library (2 years)

• Treasurer of the Lake Scugog Studio Tour (4 years)

• Numerous photographic awards

Travel Awards

• International Travel News '100+ Nations' award

• Visited all of Europe' award

• The 'Phileas Fogg' award (in recognition of travelling to
  the same nations as the character in the Jules Verne
  novel 'Around the World in 80 Days'.

• The 'Travelled to Six Continents' award

• The 'Shellback' award (celebrating the crossing of the
  equator, the international dateline and the zero
 meridian).