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Sally Emory

Sally has lived most of her life in Fort St. John. She moved here with her parents and siblings for the infamous “three years” in the 60’s. Her parents stayed for 27 years and Sally has left Fort St. John and returned at least 4 times and is very proud to call Fort St. John “home”.

Sally joined Northern Environmental Action Team (NEAT) as a volunteer in 1990. The first project that she was involved with was assisting with an information booth at the spring Trade Show and hasn’t missed a show since!

Sally was instrumental in NEAT receiving over $200,000 in government grants to establish the recycling program in Fort St. John in 1992. She successfully ran the recycling depot and in 1997 the organization evolved in the Regional Recycling Program.

At that time, Sally’s role with NEAT changed. NEAT won the Peace River Regional District contract to provide waste reduction education and promotion programs for the entire regional district. Sally hung up her steel-toed boots and moved into outreach and communications. Sally designs and implements waste reduction programs region-wide as well as other resource conservation awareness programs for NEAT such as Clean Air Day, water conservation and Arbour Day.

One of Sally’s proudest moments was when she was presented with the Minister's Environment Award in the category of Eco-education in June 2000. Sally said “This award recognizes that NEAT is an exciting, vibrant, and very effective organization. The most important part of NEAT’s name is “Team” so I am the coach and the volunteers, participants and everyone who does their part in looking after our environment are the real winners.”

Karen Thomas

Originally from Ontario, Karen and her family moved to Tumbler Ridge via the Yukon Territory, in 1994. She tried to establish a recycling program soon after she arrived in town because the then non-existent recycling opportunities frustrated her. She was delighted when the regional recycling program appeared on the scene in 1997.

Karen was very active in the operation of a local recycling depot that collected from the regional bins and performed a primary sort, as well as collected and baled cardboard. Upon the arrival of the Return-It system (beverage container refund deposit program), Karen added duties of managing the bottle depot to her resume.

In 2001 Karen decided to focus her energies on education, and became the Eco-Educator for Tumbler Ridge area. Karen has delivered workshops, classroom presentations and demonstrations to the residents of Tumbler Ridge and region. The Compost Demonstration Garden is a result of all her hard work. She designed and developed the garden and is responsible for its ongoing operation which always includes planting and weeding it. Karen has also contributed to educational materials for the Waste Reduction Program.

Karen’s pet peeve is garbage day.