Best Volunteer: Marj Bodnarchuk
Marj Bodnarchuk believes that getting involved within the community as a volunteer is something that everyone should consider and attempt to experience.
“It’s a wonderful way to support the community, keep in touch with people in the community and help build the community,” said Bodnarchuk. “If everybody just stayed in their little spaces and nobody interacted beyond work, life would be really dull.”
Bodnarchuk believes in giving back and she has dedicated her efforts to a variety of organizations and causes over the years. She has continued to volunteer at Wesley United Church for more than 30-years, she was on the fundraising committee for the E. A. Rawlinson Centre before it was built and she continues to lend a hand there on a regular basis. She has volunteered with the Prince Albert Exhibition Association and she also provides musical entertainment at Prince Albert’s Pineview Terrace Lodge and another long-term care home in Shellbrook on a regular basis.
“You can have the best time of your life doing volunteer work,” said Bodnarchuk. “The activities are so much fun, the people you meet are so much fun and at the end of the day you go home and you feel good about everything that is happening.”