Nominations Open Mayor's Citizen Recognition Awards 2025

Both Craig and Jocelyn have volunteered for a long-time with the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program. Craig for over 20 years and Jocelyn for over 10 years. They have filed hundreds of tax returns over the years for free for low-income families that need assistance. Filing taxes for low-income families will unlock other financial aid opportunities that they would not qualify for if they don’t file. Filing taxes can feel daunting, in particular for families that simply don’t have the financial resources to pay to get help.

Beyond that, Craig Campbell has given his time over the years to many other organizations including the Knights of Columbus member, the PAC Committee and the Woodstock Golf and Curling Club Board.

Jocelyn has also given of her time. She’s been a volunteer with the Saint Gertrudes Church for 30 years and has volunteered with the Woodstock Golf and Curling Club for 25 years.

Jennifer spear-headed the new local Trans-Canada Trail Community Committee and has spent countless hours of her time research and making her own contacts with Trans Canada Trail officials and within government. She has organized many meetings, wrote grants to procure funding, and thanks to her there is signage on trail, benches made and placed, and Butternut trees planted.

Jennifer helped organize trail clean up days and a National Trail Day Fest, as well as an signage unveiling ceremony that provided a fun treasure hunt for kids, a trail walk, and a bbq. In just a short amount of time, Jennifer managed to get funding to employ a student this past summer to help promote and maintain the trail. In her spare time, she coordinated and mentored the summer student – including developing a “Story Book Trail”. 

Jordan Currie has been a non-parent volunteer Woodstock minor hockey coach for 6 years. He started when he was 18 years old and though he has a young family and busy real-estate career, he still continues to volunteer. He is known for his fair play attitude and he’s been a great role model for many players already. Jordan has contributed to Woodstock Minor Hockey financially in the past by donating a percentage of his real-estate sales directly back to Minor Hockey. He has also organized numerous drives for the Valley Foodbank of the years and overall, you are a great example of someone who cares about his community.

Norm has been a long-time community volunteer and has been instrumental in the development and maintenance of the Woodstock Valley Yacht Club. Norm, along with his wife Cathy, have been members since 1988. He’s the guy the Town calls when the docks need put out or taken in or a dock needs repaired, the guy that gets called upon when someone visiting from out of town needs fuel, or anyone needs a boat towed.

Norm has also been a member of the Woodstock Trailmakers Snowmobile Club since it’s inception 50 years ago. He’s been a Director for 30 years, following in his father, Ed’s, footsteps who was the founding member. Again, Norm is the guy that spends countless hours in the off-season fixing the trails, developing new trails, taking care of signage, prepping the sliding hill at the Golf Course, and he’s one of the main groomers of the trails that have contributed to what has given us a reputation of one of the best trails in the province. He’s so good that he was recognized by the Snowmobile Federation as Groomer of the year he was a huge reason why the Woodstock Trailmakers were named club of the year in 2023.

In his spare-time, he also volunteers his time at the St James United Church, doing maintenance work and peeling potatoes for suppers. I understand that Norm is known for his delicious homemade ice cream that he has been known to serve the residents of Carleton County. 

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.

They have represented our town for almost two years as Junior Miss and Little Miss Woodstock.  They attended many, many events, from benefit breakfasts to parades. The volunteered at the haunted hayrides for Rotary at Halloween, helped with the July Floats event, fundraised money for the Salvation Army Christmas Kettle and actively promoted girls in sports.

In their spare-time Edie plays hockey and Aria plays soccer and does horseback riding. You’ve both done an outstanding job representing your community. Above all, you went above and beyond to honour the commitment you made in accepting your crowns as Junior Miss and Little Miss Woodstock.