2010 Willow Nominees
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Check out these lists of the 2010 nominees: Shining Willow, Diamond Willow, and Snow Willow.
Thank You!
The 2009 Willow Awards voting has ended.
It's been a very exciting voting year, results so close, tension high! The winners will be announced at the 2010 SaskEnergy Willow Awards Gala in Saltcoats, April 30. Check back after May 1 to see if your favourite book won.
2010 SaskEnergy Willow Awards Gala
Congratulations to Saltcoats School!
On April 30, 2010, the annual SaskEnergy Willow Awards Gala will be held in Saltcoats, SK. Their plan to involve the community promises to make this an exciting event. The 2009 Willow Awards winners will be announced at this time.
The 2010 Willow Awards Nominations
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2009 Shining Willow Nominees »
The Shining Willow Award for books written for young readers.
2009 Diamond Willow Nominees »
The Diamond Willow Award for titles written for upper elementary readers, (grades 4-6).
2009 Snow Willow Nominees »
The Snow Willow Award for books for young people, (grades 7-9).
SYRCA Inc. Distinguished Service Award, 2009 to Marion Perry
The Distinguished Service Award is to recognize extraordinary service, effort or example by an individual, which resulted in outstanding benefit to a program or project important to SYRCA - The Willow Awards. A suggested minimum of five years distinguished service must have been rendered to qualify for this award.
Marion was presented with a paperweight and flowers from the SYRCA board.
Marion Perry has provided extraordinary service to SYRCA --The Willow Awards for over 8 years. In 2000, the Saskatchewan School Library Association (SSLA) executive hired Marion Perry as a consultant to investigate the possibility of creating a children's choice book award for Saskatchewan. Her report was accepted by SSLA and an interested group of people formed a charter Board of Directors to build the organization. They elected Marion to be the first President of the Willow Awards. She did the hard but vital spadework of drafting a constitution and bylaws, and seeing to incorporation. Under her leadership the Willow Awards grew from the first year with 5,000 young people voting to the over 10,000 votes received for the 2008-2009 Awards.
Marion Perry served as President of SYRCA Inc. from 2001 to 2005, when she became Past-President until 2008. She then served another year as a Director at Large. Among many duties and tasks during these years, Marion chaired the Fund-Raising Dinner committees, was Webmaster overseeing the development of the new Willow website and electronic voting, edited the newsletter and the annual posters and bookmarks. She also acted as invaluable mentor to subsequent Presidents and Directors.
SYRCA--The Willow Awards expresses it's gratitude and thanks with the presentation of the Distinguised Service Award.
2008 Willow Award Winners
Diamond Willow Award winner, Caroline Adderson, author of Very Serious Children with students and teachers from South Shore School, Regina Beach.
Lumsden Elementary School (LES) hosted the 2009 SaskEnergy Willow Awards Gala.
Congratulations to all of our winners!
- 2008 Shining Willow Award winner Melanie Watt for Scaredy Squirrel
- 2008 Diamond Willow Award winner Caroline Adderson for Very Serious Children
- 2008 Snow Willow Award winner Gordon Korman for Schooled
A big thank you to the many schools around the province that participated in the 2008 Willow Awards.
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