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From the Niagara Falls Review and St. Catherine Standard:
Mullen wins Sierra Club achievement award
Environmentalist Melanie Mullen earned the recognition of the Sierra Club’s Niagara chapter this week. The organization named 24-year-old Mullen the winner of its environmental youth achievement award, a new award to focus attention on education.
“We feel as an organization that it is very important to the region to support the hard work of our new leaders” said Larry-Alan Caldwell, chairman of the Niagara region Sierra Club Conservation Team. Caldwell credited Mullen’s efforts with building a better quality of life, awareness of environmental issues, and protecting resources in Niagara.
Mullen graduated from the University of Guelph’s environmental engineering program last year. Then she ran as the Green party’s candidate in the 2007 provincial election. She finished third, ahead of the NDP, taking about 11.4 per cent of the votes in that election. The Green party of Ontario named her the party’s female deputy co-leader late last year.She was also part of a campaign to convince the provincial government to preserve Fort Erie’s Marcy’s Woods.
Mullen has been involved in environmental issues for years in Niagara Falls. She won the city’s environmental award when she was a student at Saint Paul high school for promoting recycling and other issues at school.Mullen said she respects the Sierra Club’s work, adding “there is so much we can all accomplish when we work together.”
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Congratulations Melanie. Your devotion to environmental issues and your accomplishments in such a short time is astounding. I look forward to hearing about your next endeavour.
Comment by Dave Heipel February 8, 2008 @ 11:28 amCongratulations Melanie. You deserve this award for all your hard work in the environmental field. Hope you keep up the good work.
Comment by Scott Harrison February 20, 2008 @ 5:55 pm