Malcolm Kirk Award

Nominations are now closed for this year's Malcolm Kirk Award for the Environment.  Thank you for your submissions!

We welcome you to attend the 2nd Annual Award Presentation Night, on Thursday November 4th at the P&H Centre in Hanover.

You'll enjoy a delicious 100-mile dinner, a presentation from the Mike Traynor of Source Water Protection, and then we'll announce this year's Malcolm Kirk Environmental Award winner.

 

For more information about the Malcolm Kirk Award, check out our Award Partners page.

100-mile Dinner Menu:

Appetizer:

• Roasted pumpkin soup topped with Uncle Richard's maple syrup whipped cream and served with toasted pumpkin seed biscotti.

Mains (your choice of):

• Wood fire grilled West Grey Beef striploin served with caramelized onions and rosemary scalloped potatoes, finished with a Neustadt's WD30 beef jus.
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• Traditional roast breast of turkey served with whipped potatoes, sage and pear stuffing, with Maclean's Ale gravy.

Dessert:

• Beaver Valley Apple bread and butter pudding with Uncle Richard's maple syrup caramel sauce

Dinners are served with seasonal/local veggies, breads are baked using GrassRoots Organics Flour, and butter is Mennonite made. Alcoholic cider will be provided by Carrick Wines & Ciders.

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Dave Wedge of Southampton - last year's winner of the first Malcolm Kirk Award for the Environment.

 

Mr. Wedge (above left) was presented with his award by Ross Kentner of Bayshore Broadcasting Corporation at Go Green at Saugeen, a two-day environmental forum organized by the Community Foundation Grey Bruce at the CAW Centre in Port Elgin recently.

For the past seven years Mr. Wedge has organized a “tub scrub” at either Tobermory or Port Elgin to clean up the harbour.  One year, some 30 volunteer divers brought up one full-size garbage truck full and 7 pick-up trucks full of debris!  Mr. Wedge brings hot water to warm up everbody’s diving gear and, out of his own pocket, he provides soup, hot dogs, coffee, tea and hot chocolate!

His friends say they have learned much about the environment and had fun doing it!

Last year, Bayshore presented a lifetime achievement award to Malcolm Kirk at Go Green at Blue, near Collingwood.  Mr. Kirk was instrumental in bringing thousands of acres of sensitive shoreline and escarpment property into public ownership.