Appreciated most for her tireless community service since moving here in the Sixties, including implementing and working the Sambro Ketch Harbour Elementary School Lunch Program, keeping an eye on the teens who gathered on the school steps, ensuring their safety, running Auction 45 games, supporting the Sambro Dinner Theater as actor and cast luncheon supervisor, and always providing advice, sharing a laugh, or providing comfort.

Appreciated most for devoting extensive time to creating and running innovative and entertaining ways to raise money within our community, most notably for our future Community Centre and the Sambro Ketch Harbour Elementary School, enabling more people to be a part of creating a bright future in Sambro.

Appreciated most for her tireless volunteering at Sambro Ketch Harbour Elementary School, including the PTA, fundraising, chaperoning field trips, organizing the Spring Fair, running a healthy school lunch program including developing recipes, sending out menus, food shopping, scheduling parent volunteers, cooking each week, organizing holiday themed meals -- all the while making it look fun and easy. Thank you for making our children happy and healthy, and giving them beautiful memories of this special little place

Appreciated most for their tireless dedication and donations to the church and elementary school, community events, fundraisers, decorating and organizing, feeding the elderly and working in the school’s hot lunch program for many years, as well as their rich knowledge of the area’s history and the wonderful people that live here.

Appreciated most for her active participation and sponsorship of the Sambro Sou’Wester Days, including the Corn Boil and Ceilidh and Parade, donations to the School Fair and the Sambro Imagination Library early childhood literacy program, her generous bids during the St. James Dinner Theatre fundraising auctions, and overall love for the community of Sambro.

For their lifelong dedication to their church and their community, supporting neighbours and strangers alike who are in need. Various business ventures included Sambro Fisheries, a gas station and store in Sambro, and later renovating that building into three apartments. Even in retirement, they continue to be ardent volunteers at church and many other local events.

Congratulations to all of you for being recognized for everything you do for our community

For their tireless work at church suppers and other functions, serving on their board of management, volunteering for over 20 years with the hot lunch program at Sambro Elementary School, generous donations, and enthusiastic participation at community events.

For organizing the annual Shay and MacKay Fishing Derby, creating and awarding a J.L. Ilsley scholarship, fundraising for various charities, and for their steadfast commitment to creating a wheelchair accessible picnic area and fishing park at Grand Lake.

For his generous sponsorship of local fundraisers, church, school, hockey and community events, for donating the use of machinery to clean up the community, for providing opportunities for disadvantaged individuals to grow and improve their lives, and the many other things he does that we are not even aware of.

Appreciated most for their passionate commitment to creating and maintaining a vibrant and welcoming community hub where people can gather to socialize and share, providing space for community fundraising, information distribution, and the annual Lobster Trap Tree Lighting, sponsoring various events, including the annual Sou'Wester Days Rubber Duck Race, always supporting community initiatives, providing jobs within the community, knowing their customers by name, and always being eager to jump in and do more.

Appreciated most for their love of this vibrant community, being innovative business leaders, providing competitive wages when minimum wage was low, providing employment opportunities to anyone willing to work, being generous friends to all, offering help without hesitation and kindness without condition, opening their home to anyone who needed a place to live or just hang out, encouraging local sports by sponsoring teams, and being a driving force behind bringing a ball field to Sambro.

Appreciated most for their church leadership, musical contributions, dinner theatre, fundraising, volunteering with the church, school, library, jamboree, sewing costumes, performing and cooking for the dinner theatre, hosting epic cast parties, canvassing during election campaigns, organizing and teaching navigational courses to assist local fishermen in meeting Department of Fisheries requirements. Immersing themselves in the community since their arrival in 1969, they continue to be an inspiration to all who know them.

Appreciated most for her cultural and artistic contributions to the soundtrack of Sambro, her musical direction, performance and accompaniment during the Down Home Christmas, Dinner Theatre, Coffee House, Church Choir, Sou’Wester Days and more, always garnering wide praise and accolades and producing triumphant results. She creates a particular kind of magic as a musician, arranger, songwriter and producer, collaborating to keep the magic alive and maintaining the authenticity of Sambro.

For the cultural contribution of his 1985 folk song "Sambro Beside the Sea", originally written for a church fundraiser. This honest story of a working fishing community with real people, great neighbours, and the wondrous natural beauty that surrounds us has become an anthem that is lovingly sung at local functions, including the annual Sambro Dinner Theatre. On hand to accept the award on his behalf were Jim's wife Lori and one of his sons, Josh.

For her early entrepreneurship as she sold eggs, ran a canteen at Crystal Crescent Beach, and together with her husband Alfred, owned and operated a store and ran the local post office. She saw opportunities in her community and was able to fill a need while lovingly and confidently raising her family. Even as she recovers from a broken hip, she continues to be a positive role model for Sambronians and beyond.

For her vision and creation of the Sambro Dinner Theatre, which she wrote, directed and produced for over 10 years and which continues to run today, for her live theatre productions at Melville Heights and the other fun activities she initiates there, her generosity to her family, friends and community members, her continued love of teaching, and for her dedication to remaining young at heart.

For her participation in the St. James United Church choir, Sambro Dinner Theatre, talent nights, and other live performance shows, volunteering at church meals and other events, knitting dolls, socks, mittens and more for the IWK and the needy, making quilts for the homeless, sewing aprons, costumes and more, for her continued dedication to teaching and sharing, and her gift of making newcomers to the area feel truly welcome

For organizing local events such as a dart league, dances, jam sessions, talent shows, comedic entertainment, and for organizing the early Sambro Sou’Wester Days.

For his decades of contributions to the community, his leadership skills, outstanding volunteering and wealth of knowledge well as his advocation for the needs of the community.