Member of Parliament Randy Hoback gives a speech during a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee medallion presentation on April 21, 2023. (Logan Lehmann/paNOW staff)

By Logan Lehmann

Platinum Jubilee

Hoback presents Platinum Jubilee medals to recipients during ceremony in P.A.

Apr 22, 2023 | 12:00 PM

More than 30 residents of Prince Albert and area were presented with a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre on Friday night.

The medallions were handed out by local Member of Parliament Randy Hoback who said that with the Queen’s passing in September, some of the award recipients mentioned these medals hold a bit more significance than with awards handed out in previous years.

“A lot of (the recipients) are older and they acknowledged that,” Hoback explained. “They resonate with the Queen and the Queen resonates with them. They understand the work that she did, and the sacrifices she made so to have a Queen Platinum Jubilee medal, it means a lot. Maybe a little bit extra special because it’s the Queen’s last one.”

Of those who were awarded medals, two of the recipients were former Prince Albert Citizen of the Year Marie Mathers and Marjorie Bodnarchuk where Marjorie praised all the other recipients for their work in the city.

Prince Albert Member of Parliament Randy Hoback presents 2022 Citizen of the Year Marjorie Bodnarchuk with a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee medallion on April 21, 2023. (Logan Lehmann/paNOW staff)

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“All of these wonderful people who have been contributing for decades and decades and they’re still hard at it no matter how up in years they get, they still have the energy and the mental drive to keep going and do more,” she said. “I don’t know where else in Canada you would have such a large percentage of the population dedicated to volunteering and to go on and on and on, and to just make this the most fabulous place to live.”

Along with Mathers and Bodnarchuk, here is the complete list of recipients in order of last name:

Richard Anhenakew

Wayne Bacon

Mark Bergen

Don Bernier

Marjorie Bodnarchuk

David Bodvarson

Ralph Boychuk

Robert Bratvold

Gordon Broda

Chief Burns

Rose-Marie Carey

Nancy Carruthers

Carol Churchill

Russell Clunie

Natalie Clyke

Brennen Dupre

Gordon Dupre

Margaret Ferguson

Gordon Finnestad

John Fryters

Isidore Gaudet

Robert Gentil-Perret

Evelyn Hagley

Deborah Halverson

Chief Head

John Herd

Vern Hodgins

Patricia Hughes

Joyce Hunter

Thomas Hunter

Clarence Jackson

Sonya Jahn

Malcolm Jenkins

Eldeen Johnson

Luciano Lauzon

Patricia Lunny

Gloria Mahussier

Marie Mathers

Doris McDougall

Sherry McLennan

Nnamdi Ndubuka

Janis Olesko

Annie Pistun

Teena Polle

Andrew Poulin

Stephen Roberts

Stella Rodwin

Chief Sanderson

Myron Schmalz

Kam Singh

Joan Sommerfeld

Gail Syverson

Hoback added that he will be in Tisdale on Saturday to hand out more Platinum Jubilee medals to the recipients in the town and to that area of the province.

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logan.lehmann@pattisonmedia.com

Twitter: @lloganlehmann