Laura Belanger-Ihlen is the recipient of the Kootenay Branch 2024 Community Service Award.
Laura is an individual who exemplifies a person who rise above adversity and has genuine engagement wherever she and whomever she is with.
Her achievements include:
- School liasion and coordinator for the The Coldest Night of the Year which brings awareness to, and raises funds for those without shelter and low-income families.
- Working for the Canadian Cancer Society to coordinate a school Relay for Life.
- Volunteering at the not-for-profit St. David’s Thrift Store.
- Working at the Castlegar Public library, where she enjoys working with broad spectrum of our community.
- Worked at the Summer at the Skate Park program for the past seven years.
- Editor of the school yearbook for the past two years.
- Maintaining an A+ each school year.