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Three Collège Boréal graduates have been nominated for Premier's Awards, an honour handed out by Colleges Ontario, the association representing the province's 24 community colleges.
The awards, to be distributed Nov. 26, recognize the contribution of the province's college graduates.
Georges Bolduc, a graduate of Collège Boréal’s Child and Youth Worker program, is a nominee in the recent graduate category.
He's now a professor in the Child and Youth Worker program and an employment consultant with Collège Boréal.
Bolduc is a volunteer with Les jeunes de la rue, the General Association of Students of Collège Boréal, ACFO of Greater Sudbury and the Free the Children association with whom he went to Kenya to build an elementary school.
He spent this past summer spending his energy in the physical fitness courses offered each week for physically and mentally handicapped persons at the YMCA in Sudbury.
Kayla Michaud, a graduate of Collège Boréal’s Nursing program, is a nominee in the health sciences category.
She now specializes in gerontology at the Algonquin Nursing Home in Mattawa. Upon graduation, Michaud embarked on a career as a registered nurse under challenging yet enriching conditions.
Michaud first headed to Moose Factory in Ontario's far north to provide health care to the Aboriginal population of this vast isolated region.
During her two years at Weeneebayko General Hospital, she encountered the kinds of extreme emergencies that plague health care in the isolated communities of James Bay.
Lynn Ward, a graduate in Collège Boréal’s Business Administration – Accounting program, is a nominee in the business category.
She's today a senior official with the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) and plays an important role in the evaluation, analysis, and development of recommendations that have a direct impact on the stability of Canada’s financial markets.
Before joining the OSFI, Ward worked for more than eight years in the insurance industry, including as senior analyst of risk management and insurance for the CBC. Ms. Ward also has an Honours Degree in Commerce from Laurentian University.
She is a Chartered Insurance Professional and has Canadian Risk Management designation.
“Collège Boréal would like to wish good luck to those three graduates in this event,” the press release said.
Last year, Ivan Filion, who has worked at all three local post-secondary institutions over his 30-year career, including a stint as Cambrian's interim president, won the Minister’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the event.
