Wellington County honours Carol Kirby from the GHVA

County councillors took a break from their regular deliberations on April 30 to honour volunteers from across Wellington.

Councillor Lou Maieron, the liaison for the county with the Volunteer Centre of Guelph-Wellington, told councillors his duties were not onerous.

“It was essentially the Volunteer Centre,” said Maieron, who offered several comments about the value of volunteers in the community. Maieron noted, too, that this is the first time in the four years of the awards that a student was being honoured.

The mayors of the seven municipalities introduced the winners, and Warden Joanne Ross-Zuj noted she was pre­senting the Centre Wellington Township award to Carol Kirby.

Since 2000, Kirby has vol­unteered with the Groves Hospital Volunteer Association where she contributes more than 50 hours a month in the Fergus Opportunity Shop and hospital gift shop, both as­sist­ing and managing these operations. As a board member, she has held the positions of treasurer, director of com­munications and currently, director of fundraising.

Thanks to Carol’s hard work, and that of other GHVA volunteers, the hospital has been able to raise $500,000 of $3-million required for the purchase of a CT Scan.

Ross-Zuj lauded Kirby for “countless numbers of hours” of volunteering in the community.

Story courtesy of the Wellington Advertiser