District Awards to be presented for the 2016–2017 year at the ECC Convention in Montego Bay

Ralph Taylor Memorial Gong

Estab­lished in mem­o­ry of an inspir­ing leader in North­ern Ontario, this award is pre­sent­ed to the club that issued the best weekly/biweekly Bul­letin in elec­tron­ic or paper media. The bul­letin must be pub­lished at least once each month for the 2016–2017 Kiwa­nis year and must be sub­mit­ted in elec­tron­ic form.

Laurent Girouard Award (Club Bulletin – runner up)

Estab­lished by past Gov­er­nor Lau­rent Girouard and is pre­sent­ed to the club that issued the run­ner up weekly/biweekly Bul­letin in elec­tron­ic or paper media. The bul­letin must be pub­lished at least once each month for the 2016–2017 Kiwa­nis year and must be sub­mit­ted in elec­tron­ic form.

Fred McAllister Award

This award is pre­sent­ed to an indi­vid­ual who has per­formed the most out­stand­ing ser­vice to his/her local com­mu­ni­ty through Kiwa­nis for the 2016–2017 year. Rec­om­men­da­tions com­plete with rea­son and/or sup­port­ing doc­u­ments should be sub­mit­ted in elec­tron­ic for­mat.

Godfrey Dyer Kiwanis Marketing Award

This award is giv­en to rec­og­nize club con­tri­bu­tions to Mar­ket­ing, Pub­lic­i­ty and the Pro­mo­tion of Kiwa­nis to the com­mu­ni­ty for the 2016–2017 year. Clubs should sub­mit a full descrip­tion of the marketing/publicity cam­paign, copies of sam­ple media mate­ri­als and their assess­ment of the over­all results. Judg­ing will be based sole­ly on sub­mis­sion.

Award of Merit

This award is pro­vid­ed by Past Gov­er­nor Hed­ley Ivany, for the club sec­re­tary who has been judged to be out­stand­ing (UNSUNG HERO). The club should sub­mit rec­om­men­da­tions for this award detail­ing the rea­sons why the indi­vid­ual is deserv­ing of the award for the 2016–2017 year.

Interclub Award

This award is based on the inter­club activ­i­ty dur­ing the year as report­ed via the club’s month­ly report. Num­ber of unique inter­club, dis­tance trav­elled and mem­bers attend­ing will be assessed. Please sub­mit a report out­lin­ing your inter­club as per the cri­te­ria above.

Submit  applications to the District Awards Committee by January 31, 2018 to

Dis­trict Awards Chair   DLG Bob Bog­a­rdis at robertbogardis@gmail.com

Please be aware that the Dis­trict Awards com­mit­tee will be apply­ing the Poli­cies and Pro­ce­dures sec­tion 11 – Hon­ours and Awards, sub sec­tion Dis­trict – 11.2, ©, as shown below.

1. C) There shall be no awards pre­sent­ed as Dis­trict Awards oth­er than those approved by the Board of Direc­tors and list­ed in Dis­trict Pol­i­cy. This does not pre­clude a Divi­sion from hav­ing awards for clubs with­in that Divi­sion. Clubs shall not be eli­gi­ble to receive the same award more than once out of each three (3) years for the same or any major part of the same project unless oth­er­wise indi­cat­ed.