2009 Online Vote Summary Forms
Submit your votes for the 2009 Willow Awards
Online voting forms for the 2009 Shining Willow, Diamond Willow, and Snow Willow Awards are now available. Submit your vote summary by February 28, 2010.
The 2009 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.
2008 Willow Awards Launch Winners
A student from Mrs. Olson's class at Lindale School working on an Ancient Thunder project.
Thank you to the many schools around the province that participated in the 2008 Willow Awards Launch contest.
Congratulations to Susan Funk of Brevoort Park, Saskatoon who won a set of 2008 nominated books by submitting her Willow Awards launch activities.
Check out Susan's winning entry along with all of the other winners' entries.
What's New
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