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Politicians, Olympians, dedicated volunteers receive recognition continued from p.25 27 |Thursday July 6, 2017 | OAKVILLE BEAVER |www.insidehalton.com in funds for the parents and children in the program. In November 2016, he slept in a car for seven nights in Oakville to raise awareness about the needs of the homeless. He also spearheaded a larger initiative, Sleep In Your Car, coming this September, raising more than $20,000 to date to provide housing and supports for homeless families in the community. Ellie Mehltretter Mehltretter has volunteered for Safetynet Children and Youth Charities for four years. She started in Grade 9, tutoring children and youth struggling with their academics on a weekly basis. Mehltretter was dedicated to the educational welfare of children she assisted and completed more than 300 hours of community service with Safetynet, while still in high school. Jam es Montague of a scholarship for a First Nations student at and the Seniors Day Programs at S.E.N.E.C.A. Laurentian University. She also sits on the Interfaith Council of Halton, She was instrumental in establishing the Halton Police forum and is ambassador for the Halton Interfaith Council, after 9/11, and was Hindu Federation of Canada. behind an initiative between her church, Shaarei Beth-El and Al-Falah mosque to be the first to Ruth Sheridan Sheridan has served on numerous locally sponsor a Syrian refugee family. organization committee including the former Oakville Senior Citizen Advisory Committee, Anne Peace Peace taught early childhood education, now SWAG (Seniors Working Advisory as well as the first diversity course offered by Group), SAVIS of Halton, where she counselled Sheridan College, and other courses that always and assisted sexually-abused and physicallyand emotionally-abused women. focused on physical and mental well-being. She trained numerous early childhood She is training as a senior connector and workers in Oakville and beyond, joined the is a support volunteer advisor at the Oakville Oakville Parent-Child Centre early on, and still volunteers periodically to give a course for new mothers. She co-wrote and published a book for new mothers. O p Ralph Robinson hospital, and is to run a peer support group for the visually- impaired in Oakville. Donna Starkey Starkey is a volunteer at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital and member of the board at St. Paul' s United Church. She was awarded a plaque for her 40-year commitment to Girl Guiding in Ontario, in April 2014, and has received numerous other awards for supporting and teaching leadership to young women in Oakville and Ontario throughout the four decades. Starkey was awarded the 2015 Ontario Service Award for her more than 30 years to the Oakville Historical Society. e n y o u r s e n s e s to w h a t o th e rs h a ve e x p e rie n c e d . 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