This page was exported from Bancroft this Week [ https://www.bancroftthisweek.com ] Export date:Wed Jul 3 3:22:48 2024 / +0000 GMT ___________________________________________________ Title: Bancroft native honoured as Conservation Hero --------------------------------------------------- Ontario Nature, a leading environmental charity, announced the recipients of their annualConservation Awards on June 11, 2022.   The awards recognized the exceptional contributionsmade by individuals and organizations to protect wild species and wild spaces inOntario.  Among this year's 10 winners were Tweed residents, Elizabeth Churcher and GeorgeThomson. This husband and wife team was awarded the Ontario Nature Education Award for alifetime devoted to educating and inspiring people of all ages to understand and appreciate thenatural world so they too might become enthusiastic supporters of conservation andenvironmental protection.George and Elizabeth are longtime residents and tireless volunteers in the region. You mustknow them from somewhere.You might have worked at a school with them or remember one of them as your teacher. BothGeorge and Elizabeth taught science for many years at public schools in the Hastings Countyarea.Perhaps you have visited Churcher Woods in Bancroft. After inheriting a portion of her family'sfarm, Elizabeth and George donated 60 woodland acres to the Hastings Prince Edward LandTrust as a nature reserve to be used for educational purposes.If you read the Tweed News, you would have come across their weekly natural history column,“Naturally”.Before Covid, you could have met them at one of the monthly Quinte Field Naturalist meetingsin downtown Belleville. Both are excellent naturalists. As President, George would have beenchairing the meeting with charm and humour and Elizabeth would have been reporting on therecent nature advocacy letters she had written as Corresponding Secretary.Several years ago, you could have been on a Tweed Horticultural Garden Tour to “HepaticaHill”, their 100 acre farmstead come nature reserve, where they reduce their carbon footprintby growing the vast bulk of their own food while maintaining rich and varied habitat for wildlife.If you have driven through Tweed in summer, you passed by St. Andrew's Presbyterian Churchwhere they have been instrumental in turning the property into a beautiful vegetable garden tosupply the food bank and a pollinator garden to feed butterflies, bees and birds.You may belong to one of the innumerable groups all over Hastings County and beyond, whereGeorge and Elizabeth have given their nature presentations over the years. These are just a few highlights of a lifetime of passionate dedication to Nature that garneredElizabeth Churcher and George Thomson the Ontario Nature Education Award. Humble aboutthe recognition, their greatest wish is that they might inspire you to do everything you can tocreate a greener, more livable future for the generations to come. Submitted by Ontario Nature --------------------------------------------------- Images: --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Post date: 2022-06-21 17:01:50 Post date GMT: 2022-06-21 21:01:50 Post modified date: 2022-06-21 17:02:01 Post modified date GMT: 2022-06-21 21:02:01 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Export of Post and Page as text file has been powered by [ Universal Post Manager ] plugin from www.gconverters.com