President Vern Miller Receives the 2016 AACE Individual Award
Our President, Vern Miller, has received the 2016 Lethbridge Allied Arts Council Awards of Excellence (AACE) in the Individual category on September 22, 2016 during the Mayor’s Luncheon for Business and the Arts held at the Lethbridge Lodge. This very important recognition is for a member of the Lethbridge community who has made philanthropic contributions to an organization and therefore enhancing the entire arts community. Vern has been Treasurer of our Guild starting in 2008 and moved to the Presidency in 2011, position that he still holds at present, as well as newsletter Editor from 2009 until 2013. He has suggested and promoted the making of the Giant chess set by our members housed at the Galt Museum and Archives. He is an outstanding supporter of Lethbridge Arts Days celebrations, CASA Christmas Sales, Spring Guilds Sales and Allied Arts Council. He has managed numerous demonstrations and hands-on workshops for our Guild members and woodturners by world-class artists from across the US and Canada. He has promoted and pushed that the Chinook Woodturning Guild become the first group involved with Beads of Courage Canada and has contacted and challenged many woodturning and woodworking art groups across the country to join this unique program. Vern has very generously shared is deep knowledge about the art and science of wood turned art and has led beginner workshops for members and nonmembers of the Guild to help turners to improve their technical skills and appreciate the artistic components of woodturning. Vern, as we all know, is a doer and wants things to happen.
To celebrate with and congratulate Vern for this prestigious award, fellow CWG members Dan Michener, Allan Schaaf, Dennis Delaney, Remie Benoit and André Laroche were present for the Award Ceremony.
Vern sincere congratulations! All the members of our Guild and the Community have benefited from your numerous accomplishments. It was very nice that your efforts were recognized at the regional level.
Vern Miller’s award interview here: Award Interview
President Vern Miller receives the 2016 AACE Individual Award from Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman