Aggie Mitchell, a local Blairmore resident, was a recipient of The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Mitchell received the medal at a ceremony held in Calgary on Friday, Nov 30th.
LINDSAY GOSS
Pass Herald Reporter
Aggie Mitchell, a local Blairmore resident is the most recent Crowsnest Pass citizen to receive the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
On November 9th, Mitchell received a letter in the mail from Premier Alison Redford notifying her that her nomination was received she was a chosen recipient of the medal. To Mitchell, the person who nominated her for the medal remains a mystery.
The Diamond Jubilee medal is a new commemorative medal that was created to mark the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II accession to the Throne as Queen of Canada. It serves to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.
In addition to the medal, Mitchell also received a certificate and a pin.
"I always volunteered," said Mitchell, saying that she first started in high school when she volunteered with gymnastics. After Mitchell went into training to be a nurse, the career she carried for the rest of her working years, her volunteer involvement flourished. She volunteered with blood pressure clinics and started teaching CPR in 1979.
She has been past president of the Kinette Service Club in Vulcan, and a manager and a player on ladies' hockey teams. She has taught first aid and CPR for St. John's Ambulance, of which she has served as local president, and she has spent three years as a Provincial Nursing Officer and three years as a National Nursing Officer for that organization.
When living in Vulcan, Alberta, Mitchell sat on the Adult Education Board, and was chair of the Police Advisory Committee.
"It helps me feel involved with the community when I volunteer," said Mitchell. "It helps the community and it helps out my fellow neighbours."
Mitchell spent three years on the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses' conduct board, and volunteers with the Sinister 7, Half Moon, and TransRockies races. She is also a cancer survivor who serves the Alberta Cancer Society as a councillor across much of southern Alberta.
Mitchell also shared huge involvement in the Pinkest Little Town in the West, a series of fundraisers that took place in the Crowsnest Pass in 2011. Pinkest Little Town raised over $35,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society.
"I suppose it is the simple little things in the community that people forget about," said Mitchell. It's those little things that truly go a long way."
Mitchell received her medal at a ceremony held in Calgary on Friday, November 30th.
