Plain Language Stories

Who Won the Norm McLeod Awards?

Roy Skoreyko won the Leadership Award

The PDD Edmonton Community board said that Roy should get this award because he has been a great leader for many years.

Thirty years ago, Roy lived at the Michener Centre. When he left the Michener Centre, he said that he would work very hard to make sure that other people don’t ever have to live in a place like that.

Roy works very hard to teach the community about people who have developmental disabilities. He teaches them that:

• It is important to know that there are some things that people with developmental disabilities can’t do.
• There is a lot that people with developmental disabilities do to help the community.

Roy works with many groups for:

• · His home town
• Edmonton
• Alberta
• Canada

Roy was one of the first people with a developmental disability to finish Leadership Today training. Now, Roy is learning how to be a member of the PDD Edmonton Community Board. Roy is the first person with a developmental disability to be a member of a PDD Board.

Don Risdon is the leader of the PDD Edmonton Community Board. He said that when Roy works on the Board, it shows that they really want everyone to work together, no matter what they can and can’t do.

The judges of the Norm McLeod Awards are the people who said that Roy would get the award. They had nice things to say about Roy.

• Wendy MacDonald said that Roy has worked hard for a long time. Roy is a great teacher for people who don’t have a developmental disability.
• Connie Cook said that Roy shows people that they can do anything.
• Donna Desjardins said that she really respects Roy.

Eyla Rogers won the Dreamweaver Award

Chrysalis said that Eyla should get this award because she has been working very hard for 30 years. Eyla has helped people who have developmental disabilities in Winnipeg and in Alberta.

Eyla has a daughter with Down Syndrome. When her daughter started school, she worked hard to make sure that the schools were good for people with developmental disabilities. Eyla did many things like:

• work with the Winnifred Stewart School Board
• Work with the St. Albert School Board to tell them that they had to make classes for all kids
• Help to make a program for developmentally delayed people
• Help make a law in St. Albert where sidewalks have to be good for wheelchairs at the corners
• Make sure that the Government of Alberta knows about people with disabilities and that the community should support them
• Help make 2 agencies called Transitions and the Skills Society for residential care
• Join many groups to help people with disabilities

The judges who said that Eyla would get this award said many nice things about her. They said that Eyla is amazing because she does a lot.

• Eyla is a mother
• Eyla volunteers and
• Eyla makes sure people with disabilities get help in the community.

Muriel Rieger got special thanks

The Camrose Association for Community Living (CACL) said that Muriel should get an award because she does a lot to help people with developmental disabilities.

• She made a school scholarship for people with developmental disabilities
• She gives money to CACL and
• She gives gifts for people who go to CACL.

Muriel used to work at the Alberta Hospital in Ponoka. When she worked at the hospital she thought that people with developmental disabilities should live in the community.

Now, Muriel is 90 years old. She still supports people with developmental disabilities. Muriel said that she wants to make sure that people with developmental disabilities are happy, comfortable and wanted.

Many people think that Muriel should get a special award because she has helped people with developmental disabilities for so long.

An award for teams

The PDD Provincial board should think about giving an award to a team. Connie Cook said that we work hard to make the community a great place for people with developmental disabilities. We should make sure we thank the community too.

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