Upcoming awards celebrates leadership that inspires active communities in Alberta

ARPA is pleased is announce the 3rd Lieutenant Governor’s Leadership for Active Communities Award. This biennial awards program recognizes the achievements of the groups and individuals who are leading their communities in strategic change that increases citizen participation in active living, recreation and sport resulting in healthier people and communities.

This province-wide awards program recognizes the achievements of teams and individuals who:

• demonstrate the very best of active community leadership,
• engage citizens in planning,
• use leadership to get people more active more often,
• work to create places, spaces and opportunities for people to be active and engage in their communities, using recreation as a catalyst.

Quality recreation and parks opportunities are essential to getting more people, more active, more often. Awardrecipients have all recognized the vital role recreation plays in their communities and have gone above and beyond to ensure that those opportunities are available not only for their immediate organization or community but far beyond.

ARPA is now open up nominations for these 6 categories:

• Outstanding Community Leader Award
• Group Spirit of Community Leadership Award
• Community Leader of Tomorrow Award
• Elected Community Leader Award
• Corporate Community Leader Award
• Professional Leadership Award

This biennial awards program is administered by ARPA, in partnership with the Recreation for Life Foundation, and in association with the Lieutenant Governor’s office. The inaugural awards ceremony took place in 2009, and the program was initiated by Alberta’s previous Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Norman L. Kwong.

The 3rd Lieutenant Governor’s Leadership for Active Communities Award Ceremonies will take place in Edmonton on June 1, 2013.

To Download a nomination form: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.arpaonline.ca/docs/Website/2013-Nomination-Form.pdf

To Download nomination criteria information: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.arpaonline.ca/docs/Website/LG-Award-Criteria-2013.pdf

For more information on this awards program, please visit http://arpaonline.ca/awards/post/lg-awards/.