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Kootenay – 2024 Youth Award Recipient

Branch News |

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.
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