40 over Forty AFW 2018 Magazine
Our first online magazine for the 40 over Forty Absolutely Fabulous Women Awards & Gala 2018 on the occasion of International Women's Day.
Our first online magazine for the 40 over Forty Absolutely Fabulous Women Awards & Gala 2018 on the occasion of International Women's Day.
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APPRECIATION<br />
AWARD<br />
CONGRATULATIONS!<br />
<strong>2018</strong> AWARD<br />
SPONSOR<br />
Aldonna Stremecki<br />
Community Support<br />
Aldonna Stremecki attended Erindale<br />
High School in Mississauga where she<br />
developed a passion for languages and<br />
theatre. As a teenager, her first foray into<br />
volunteering was as a Candy Striper.<br />
After studying at Queen’s University,<br />
L’Université de Strasbourg and the<br />
University of Toronto, she became<br />
a French, English and Theatre Arts teacher, heading the<br />
Drama department at Crescent School and directing its<br />
productions for 32 years. While teaching, she co-facilitated four<br />
Outreach trips with students to South Africa’s Eastern Cape<br />
and also to a Cape Town Township.<br />
For fifteen years, she volunteered as a bilingual reader of books<br />
on tape for the CNIB. SInce her retiring from teaching, she has<br />
volunteered at an orphanage in Haiti, assisted with the<br />
settlement of a Syrian family and engaged in a Changemaker<br />
observation visit to India.<br />
Currently, she facilitates empathy and peer mediation<br />
workshops, and stress management circles for students in<br />
downtown Toronto schools for Friendship in Action, a non-forprofit<br />
organization.<br />
Cheryl Carver<br />
Community Support<br />
In 2004 my husband was diagnosed<br />
with stage 4 colon cancer and passed<br />
away exactly 7 months from being<br />
diagnosed. Six weeks later my father<br />
passed from the same disease. It was<br />
these 2 eventsin my life that made me<br />
realize how important having friends<br />
and family support is to the patient and caregiver.Since then<br />
many friends were diagnosed with cancer and other illnesses<br />
that require support. I now volunteer my time by bringing<br />
them to their treatments, stay with them while they are<br />
inpatients and continue to support them once they’re at<br />
home. When a dear friend passed recently, I worked with his<br />
wife to settle his estate.<br />
One day at the hospital, a stranger approached and handed<br />
me a parking pass, explaining she no longer needed it. That<br />
pass paid for 8 visits to bring one of my friends to their<br />
treatments.<br />
Pay it Forward<br />
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