Lieutenant Governor making the rounds – The Chronicle Journal

Sep 14, 2017

Thunder Bay was the first stop on the Lieutenant Governor’s Visionaries Prize tour Wednesday evening at Fort William Historical Park.

The theme of the six-city tour is reconciliation and is designed to encourage individuals to come up with creative ideas related to important issues in communities across the province.

Six finalists presented their ideas to a live audience — and to judges Piya Chattopadhyay and Laurie Robinson — with the audience also in on the voting of the presentations.

“We, as most people in Canada, wanted to celebrated Canada 150, but I was really eager to make sure we didn’t just look backwards,” Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Elizabeth Dowdeswell told The Chronicle-Journal.

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