North's influential women honoured

Grade 12 Marymount Academy student Charlotte Roy is the winner of the Aspiring Achiever Essay Scholarship, presented through the Influential Women of Northern Ontario awards program.

Six other women were also honoured through the awards program, put on by Northern Life's sister company, Northern Ontario Business.

The award ceremonies and tradeshow took place May 31 in Thunder Bay at the Valhalla Inn and June 2 in North Bay at the Best Western.

The Influential Women of Northern Ontario program was launched in 1997 to seek out, honour and profile women in northern Ontario who contribute to the north’s economic success and expansion.

More than 100 influential women have been recognized since the program’s inception.

Angela Johnson, Westmont Hospitality Group's regional director of sales, North Bay and northern Ontario, won in the private sector category for northeastern Ontario.

Nancy Jacko, vice-president of the Medicine Care Centre at North Bay Regional Health, won in the public sector category for northeastern Ontario.

Leslie-Anne McKee, owner of J.J.'s Ranch in Timmins, won in the young entrepreneur category for northeastern Ontario.

Levina Collins, consultant at Collins Consulting Services in Nipigon, won in the private sector category for northwestern Ontario.

Nancy Luckai, an associate professor in forest ecology at Lakehead University, won in the public sector category for northwestern Ontario.

Marija Harp, owner of Sweet Pea's Home Catering, won in the young entrepreneur category for northwestern Ontario.

“We are so proud to be recognizing another seven exceptional women in the north,” Northern Ontario Business publisher Patricia Mills said, in a press release.

“Each year we receive more and more nominations. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions for 2012. Congratulations to this year’s winners.”

To see the winners' profiles and photos, go to www.influentialwomen.ca.