Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday evening I, along with the Honourable Kelvin Ng, had the pleasure of assisting at the annual volunteers' awards presentation at the Explorer Hotel. There were a good number of persons there from the various organizations who had been nominated for receiving some recognition for their volunteer work in the organization they had involved themselves in over the past year. The main part of the evening was to recognize one of the many, many volunteers who participated in the organizations of our town here and across the north. The recipient was Helene Usherwood, who is well-known to many of the Members and certainly is well-known to the city of Yellowknife in her efforts to assist in whatever way she can to making our town a better place and helping people who need help most.
It was a very interesting evening because we had a chance to discuss the role of volunteers and how they can, in their own way, each contribute. I would like to say thank you to MACA for making this event possible. They solicit the names of recipients for this. It's a very difficult job, of course, to make that kind of a selection because when you look at the credentials of people who are presented, they are outstanding. But, at some point, you have to pick one and I think they picked an excellent candidate.
I was fortunate to have been at the four previous events when Mrs. Stirling received her award for being volunteer of the year. That was the first one and was held in the old legislative building some four years ago. Last year, Mr. Melnyk received it and we have a gentleman from Rankin Inlet and one from Inuvik who, over the years, have received these awards.
May I conclude? Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent.
