{"id":17178,"date":"2016-05-09T23:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=17178"},"modified":"2016-05-09T23:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:10:12","slug":"sonja-susnjar-wins-community-cares-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/sonja-susnjar-wins-community-cares-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonja Susnjar wins Community Cares Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to LaSalle resident Sonja Susnjar, who was selected as LaSalle\u2019s Community Cares Leader in 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is our way of saying thank you from the community,\u201d said Community Cares Foundation Founder Denburk\u00a0Reid, who works as community relations manager for the Montreal Alouettes and lives in the LaSalle borough. \u201cThese groups and individuals aren\u2019t doing it for the recognition, but I think it\u2019s important to encourage them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Susnjar has been studying residential development projects proposed for her neighbourhood for several years. She often does detailed research to make government, corporate and non-profit organization policy clear to residents and small business owners. In three cases, she\u2019s personally gone door-to-door to meet with people to inform them about potential changes to their neighbourhood, to teach them how to become democratically active or to collect their support for one of her projects.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s an avid defender of Anglophone rights, cycling opportunities and democratic participation.<\/p>\n<p>Her award will be given out at the annual ceremony, which begins at 6:30 p.m. this coming Thursday, May 12 beginning at 6:30. The cocktail and gala takes place at the Loyola High School Eric Maclean SJ Centre, 2477 West Broadway. <a href=\"http:\/\/montrealcommunitycares.com\/gala-tickets\">Tickets<\/a> cost $75 for adults, $30 for students and $125 for VIP access, which includes parking, the cocktail and a better seat location.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the fifth year for <a href=\"http:\/\/montrealcommunitycares.com\/your-2016-montreal-community-cares-awards-winners\/\">the gala<\/a>, which began the year prior to the founding of the Montreal Community Cares Foundation. Susnjar joins 15 other individuals and groups getting awards this year, including two lifetime achievers, EMSB Principal Ben Fagan and active health services volunteer Judy Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all of you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to LaSalle resident Sonja Susnjar, who was selected as LaSalle\u2019s Community Cares Leader in 2016. This is our way of saying thank you from the community,\u201d said Community Cares Foundation Founder Denburk\u00a0Reid, who works as community relations manager for the Montreal Alouettes and lives in the LaSalle borough. \u201cThese groups and individuals aren\u2019t doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Sonja Susnjar wins Community Cares Award","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[854,851,852,855,853,96],"class_list":["post-17178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-island-report","category-lasalleposts","tag-ben-fagan","tag-community-cares-foundation","tag-denburk-reid","tag-judy-martin","tag-loyola-high-school","tag-montreal","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4t4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17156,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/lasalle-borough-meeting-last-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":17178,"position":0},"title":"LaSalle borough meeting last night","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"May 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The LaSalle borough meeting took place last night. Citizen questions focused on a petition against a new dog park in L'Hereux Park, transport struggles for LaSalle residents due to the 5,000 unit development in Lachine East between 6th and the train tracks, perks such as parking, La Ronde and Oceaga\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;LaSalle&quot;","block_context":{"text":"LaSalle","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/canada\/lasalleposts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16573,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/sirens-wanklyn\/","url_meta":{"origin":17178,"position":1},"title":"Sirens and Wanklyn","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"June 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Labatt Brewery in LaSalle was one of six Montreal companies to\u00a0test their emergency sirens this afternoon. I'm too far away to hear them, but if anyone else did, I'd love to know what happened. The tests are designed to train people to protect themselves from explosions and possible toxic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Journalism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Journalism","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/category\/writing\/notable-nonfiction\/journalism\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WanklynZonechange.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15749,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/lasalle-borough-hold-extraordinary-council-meeting-tuesday\/","url_meta":{"origin":17178,"position":2},"title":"LaSalle Borough to Hold Extraordinary Council Meeting Tuesday","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"May 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The borough of LaSalle plans to hold an extraordinary council meeting on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. to approve Quorum's\u00a0Stirling Woods Housing Project and extend the contract of Mario Vachon. 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