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Honoured
Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is my
pleasure tonight to introduce you to Marilyn Snedden.
Marilyn
Snedden has been an extraordinary volunteer for most of her
life. When you look at her extensive list of community
involvement she has actually had what I’m going to call
“two volunteer lives”.
In her “First
Volunteer Life,” Marilyn was very involved with various
sports and sporting organizations in the city of Lethbridge
from 1971-1989. With the untimely death of her husband
Peter in 1976, Marilyn carried out most of these volunteer
efforts as a single mom of three young children. Because of
her many contributions she was inducted into the Lethbridge
Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.
In her “Second
Volunteer Life” Marilyn’s volunteer efforts have been in
Wetaskiwin County and Wetaskiwin. Tonight I’m going to
concentrate on Marilyn’s “Second Volunteer Life” and the
reasons she has been chosen for induction into the
Wetaskiwin & County Sports Hall of Fame.
In 1989, when
her 2 boys were grown up, Marilyn moved with her daughter
from Lethbridge back to the Wetaskiwin/Millet area where she
grew up and immediately began volunteering. Since then her
volunteer contributions in our community have been
considerable,
Marilyn is and
has always been interested in all sports and over the years
has been an active participant in many including softball,
volleyball, broom ball, track & field, hockey and golf. In
the volunteering aspect of sport she was involved in hockey,
baseball, softball, slow-pitch and ringette. She has been
a coach, a manager, a board member, a secretary, a
president, an initiator of sports organizations, a bid
committee member, a supervisor, a policy implementor, a
scheduler, a sports rep, a zone rep, an umpire, a program
developer, a clinic host, a delegate, a governor, a district
organizer, a statistician. You name it, she’s done it. To
this day, Marilyn still has boundless energy and is always
“busy”, she’s the ultimate “energizer bunny”!
In recognition
of the thousands of hours she has contributed, Marilyn has
received many awards, letters of appreciation, plaques,
congratulatory certificates and service awards.
Out of all the
sports Marilyn has been involved with, her particular
passion has been softball. She volunteered for Softball
Alberta for 40 years and for twenty-five of those years
Marilyn was like a well-known, permanent fixture in softball
circles in our area. Her summers were spent traveling to
league & provincial championships at all age levels and
supervising the proceedings mainly in Millet, Falun,
Wetaskiwin & Mulhurst. For her years of service to softball
in 2004 she was inducted into Softball Alberta’s Sports Hall
of Fame
Marilyn is
also a “super fan” and attends as many sporting events as
she can……at all levels from little kids to top
professionals, She supported her children in sports as they
were growing up and now supports her grand children and her
great granddaughter in their sports.
We best know
Marilyn as a board member of the Wetaskiwin and County
Sports Hall of Fame. She was an original member of the
organizing group that had the foresight to establish our
Sports Hall of Fame. Marilyn was our board secretary for 15
years, She was always well organized and efficient, had
super computer skills and kept us “on our toes” with her
knowledge of the by-laws and procedures. During most of the
years she worked on our board, Marilyn was also the
secretary of the Board of the Wetaskiwin Icemen. Marilyn
spent many hours in the Icemen office working on game
programs and office jobs and could be seen at all home games
selling admission tickets and organizing the office staff
and the 50/50 draw.
Secretly, I
think Marilyn wants to be an author. She loves to research
and if you are a friend of hers you can expect as a birthday
present, a booklet about you. Also, Marilyn has initiated
the compilation of a “Who’s Who” book about sport and local
unsung sporting heroes in Wetaskiwin and county. Check out
the blurb about this book in our program.
Marilyn, our
community was a lucky recipient of your volunteer efforts.
You have been an inspiration to your family and your peers.
Your family is so proud of you and we are proud to induct
you into the Wetaskiwin & County Sports Hall of Fame in
recognition of your commitment, your contributions and your
lifetime of volunteering.
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