Ron Pearson Receives 8th Annual 2020 Volunteer of the Year Award

The recipient of this year’s Outstanding Volunteer Award will be no stranger to anyone.  This person has been a cottager at Kahshe Lake since the 1980s and then purchased property across from Hilda Island in 1999. In 2017, he and his wife subsequently sold their water-access cottage and purchased another one on Oak Road.

He has served as a KLRA Board member and took on the position of Secretary for a few years.  However, his real passion is ecology and so he left the board to devote his time to his life-long passion.  He is a trained and highly skilled environmental scientist and has eagerly shared his expertise with us.  He has volunteered as our Lake Steward for almost 10 years and has recently developed a Lake Health education portal on the association's website. 

As such he has monitored the quality of our lake and organized hands-on sampling workshops where participants surveyed the living organisms that live in our lake.   He has submitted reports to the Environment Ministry, analyzed the results, and made both written and oral presentations to the Association. This is where many of you would have come across this person. His quiet and competent approach has made him a regular presenter at our Annual General Meetings.

Amongst his other contributions, this person has served as the Secretary for the Oak Road Association.

Additionally, he is quite an accomplished amateur photographer. He participates in our photography contest and has won many prizes for his work.  When asked, he willingly volunteered to share two of his photos with us so that we could create stationery items for sale at our boutique.

I’m sure that by now, almost everyone has figured out who we are speaking about. It gives us great pleasure to announce that this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Volunteer Award is none other than Ron Pearson.

Ron received the traditional canoe paddle and certificate at a private ceremony immediately after the AGM.