1/12/2024 0 Comments Lainey downie![]() ![]() Tenace-Greenall attracted 17 votes from the umpires this year, with Turner on 16 and Tooradin-Dalmore’s Jess Craven and Cora Lynn’s Jett Edwards two further back on 14. Vice-captain in this season’s Team of the Year, Kooweerup’s Tim Miller, finished alone in fourth place on 12 votes, one clear of Nar Nar Goon’s Brendan Hermann and midfield bulls Darcy Atkins, from Kilcunda-Bass and Mitchell Cammarano from Kooweerup.īen Miller from Kooweerup won the reserves best and fairest award, polling 17 votes to finish five clear of his nearest pursuer, Phillip Island’s Noah Bee-Hickman.Įxciting Cora Lynn talent Duoth Jock polled 12 votes to win the thirds’ best and fairest award by two votes from Garfield’s Josh Evans, while Garfield’s Ben Tenace-Greenall scored a one-vote victory over Inverloch-Kongwak’s William Turner to claim the fourths’ best and fairest. Gardiner also won this season’s goal-kicking award, booting 50 goals in a fantastic effort in a season cut back to 11 games. Youle – centreman and captain in this season’s Team of the Year – and Gardiner both finished in the top-five when Pedersen claimed his first award in 2019. Pedersen, who has been a powerhouse in the ruck for the Bulldogs this season, had some familiar company at the top of the leaderboard, with his 16 votes finishing three clear of his Phillip Island skipper Jaymie Youle and Cora Lynn full-forward Nathan Gardiner. Pedersen (Phillip Island) and Renee Pilkington (Inverloch-Kongwak) took home top honours in 2019, with the names Pedersen and Hillberg reappearing again this year. The wins of Pedersen and Hillberg continue a domination of the WGFNC awards – in both senior football and A Grade netball – for the former Alberton League clubs since the reformation of the West Gippsland competition in 2017.Īndy Soumilas (Inverloch-Kongwak) and Christie Hillberg (Korumburra-Bena) won the inaugural awards, while Brendan Kimber (Phillip Island) and Alana McRae (Dalyston) triumphed in the 2018 season. Hillberg was third behind her sister Christie in 2017 and third again to Dalyston young gun Alana McRae in the 2018 award.īoth players were announced winners in an online event hosted by the WGFNC on Thursday night, in lieu of the traditional presentation night that could not proceed this year due to the impact of Covid-19. "It was all part of a ceremony to help lift him up on his journey here, in this world, and into the next.He has now won two-consecutive Breheny Medals as the best player in senior football – while Hillberg took out her first WGFNC A Grade best and fairest award after knocking on the door in past counts. "It was a very spiritual, very special moment when we honoured Gord Downie," Bellegarde said. ![]() ![]() In December 2016, Downie was named the man who "Walks Among the Stars" during an emotional ceremony at a special chiefs assembly in Gatineau, Que. "He will still guide us on this project of reconciliation which isn't just for Indigenous people, that non-Indigenous people have a tremendous role to play as we come out of this dark chapter of colonization and racism." "I think Gord Downie will be with us as we do that work." "He put it so rightly when he said we've got 150 years behind us to learn from and 150 years ahead of us and we better just get to work," she said. "To me, it is like he stood right next to us and held us up, held our people up with us," she said.ĭownie's death is an "incredible loss," said Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett. Towards the end of his life, Downie chose to support Indigenous People, said Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief Sheila North Wilson. "If we can find ways to do that collectively, we will really be honouring his work and his legacy." "There's a lot of hurt and pain from the past," he said. It is a sincere feeling, a sincere motive to try and bring about change."Ĭanada can now take up Downie's challenge of building a better country, Bellegarde added. ![]() "He was seriously concerned with relationships with the Wenjack family. It was almost as if Wenjack's spirit connected to Downie, said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde. "He wanted to make it his mission to share that story with the rest of the country." "Gord often said he was struck by that story and he couldn't let go of it," Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler said Wednesday in an interview. Proceeds from the album and graphic novel are being donated to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. It honoured 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack who died in 1966 after running away from a residential school near Kenora, Ont. In the final months of his life, the Tragically Hip frontman became an outspoken advocate on Indigenous issues, notably as part of his "Secret Path" project. OTTAWA - Canadians can unite on reconciliation efforts to honour Gord Downie's legacy, Indigenous leaders said Wednesday. ![]()
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