• Awarded on: February 23, 2012

Reta Petit (No edit. Service)
Sherwood Park

For many years, Reta Petit has been volunteering for numerous organizations. She prepared and served meals and filled food hampers at her local food bank. She planted flowers in her neighborhood. She taught English to newcomers through her church. For the Canadian Cancer Society, she drove over 13, 000 kilometers for rural cancer patients. She volunteered for many festivals. She participated in international housing projects with Habitat for Humanity and helped a project that raised thousands of dollars for grandmothers in Africa, to raise public awareness of the plight of children left orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.