Award Partners

Bayshore Broadcasting Corporation is proud to sponsor three annual awards.  Each award honours the person deemed to have contributed the most to our region in three critical areas of endeavour.

For fifty years, the Tommy Cooper Award has recognized the person making the most important contribution to agriculture and rural living in Grey and Bruce Counties during the past year.  Awarded in conjunction with the Owen Sound Sun Times, the award is named for legendary Grey County Agricultural Representative, T. Stewart Cooper.

The 2009 Tommy Cooper Award was awarded on Friday, April 16th at the Elmwood Community Centre.  Congratulations to Jack Riley of Paisley!  Jack was nominated by the Bruce County Federation of Agriculture.  For more on Jack, click here.

Congratulations to Robert Emerson (right), winner of the 2008 Tommy Cooper Award.  Pictured with Bayshore Broadcasting News Director Manny Paiva on April 3rd, 2009. For more on Robert, click here.

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For nearly thirty years, the Charlie Kelly Award has recognized the person who, similarly, has advanced tourism in the region.  This award is made by Bayshore in concert with the Grey-Bruce Regional Tourism Marketing Partners.  Its namesake, Charlie Kelly, was instrumental in extending the local building and tourism seasons to 12-months.

Congratulations to Val Stimpson of the Neustadt Springs Brewery, winner of the 2009 C.A. Charlie Kelly Award, presented in October 2009 in recognition of her personal dedication to the growth of tourism in Grey and Bruce counties. 
For more on Val, click here.

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In November 2008 at the Go Green at Blue Environmental Conference in Colllingwood, Bayshore Broadcasting presented a lifetime achievement award to Malcolm Kirk who brought thousands of acres of Southern Georgian Bay coastline and escarpment vistas into public ownership.  Henceforth, the Malcolm Kirk Award for the Environment will be presented to the person making the most significant contribution to the environment at Go Green.  The Go Green Environmental Conferences are a joint project of the Community Foundation Grey Bruce and Bayshore Broadcasting.

Congratulations to Dave Wedge (left) of Southampton, winner of the 2009 Malcolm Kirk Award for the Environment, presented at Go Green at Saugeen on November 24, 2009.  For more on Dave, click here.

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The Bayshore Broadcasting Media Scholarship Fund will be making grants to selected students from Grey and Bruce Counties applying to programs that reflect any of the following interests: Radio, TV, Newspaper, Magazine, Internet, Journalism, Entertainment, Media Sales, Broadcast Engineering, Broadcast Production or Film.

Any interested applicant may visit the Community Foundation Website and click on the application icon to fill out a general application.  For further information please email the Community Foundation.