Karen Taylor

Affectionately known in the community as “Kippy”.  Kippy is a well-recognized face around the community. She is consistently offering her leadership skills to many groups in Woodstock and beyond. Her background has given her the ability to be a great organizer, problem solver, and simply a tremendous role model and mentor to many others, including myself. She gives of her time endlessly and has assisted many organizations to successfully fundraise and promote themselves.

Kippy is the current chair of the board for Big Brothers Big Sisters Carleton York. She was instrumental in introducing to me the in-school mentoring program for the Big Brothers Big Sisters that I’m in my second year of volunteering in. She has been instrumental in helping stabilize and grow that organization since she took over the board.

Kippy is also a Guider for the 2nd Woodstock Girl Guides group, she sat on the Local Governance Reform Committee in 2022 to offer her expertise and guidance to aid the committees decision-making.

In her spare-time, Kippy co-authored the book ‘Celebrating the Legacy of Golf and Curling in Woodstock, New Brunswick : the First 70 Years that was released last year and helped organize the Woodstock Golf and Curling Club’s 2023 Legacy dinner that was a successful fundraiser for that group.

Kippy also revived an old and beautiful tradition that was largely born in our area this past year; Kippy had a vision of bringing back the May Day celebrations and with much effort she inspired many others to participate and the community was spattered with beautiful and bright May Day baskets.