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PRESS RELEASE DATE: 14th March 2008
EMBARGO: Immediate Release
LIVCOM AWARDS OPEN TO COMMUNITIES GREAT AND SMALL
The LivCom Awards are the world’s only competition
focusing on best practice regarding the management of the
local environment. The Awards are endorsed by the United
Nations Environmental Programme and every year recognize the
achievements of communities great and small in tackling the
most pressing environmental issues for the planet.
All sizes of community are catered for by the awards and the
2007 finals, held in Westminster, showcased presentations
from 46 communities and projects from 23 nations. A total of
280 nominations were received for these Awards. Judging is
across six criteria that are considered to create a liveable
community. The criteria are Enhancement of the Landscape,
Heritage Management, Environmentally Sensitive Practices,
Community Sustainability, Healthy Lifestyles and Planning
for the Future.
One Award is given for the each of these six criteria and
the smallest community to reach the finals in 2007, St.
Walburg, Saskatchewan, in Canada was awarded the Criteria
Award for Community Sustainability.
In the Whole City Awards, Section A, which is for
communities with a population of under 20,000, St. Walburg,
population 850, won a Silver Award and placed second after
Clonakilty, Ireland. This Award is based on all six
categories.
This was the second year that St. Walburg was accepted as a
finalist and invited to attend the Awards. In 2006 the St.
Walburg delegation of Tony & Merrill Leeson and Norm & Ennie
Linkert came home from Hangzhou, China with a Bronze
Award. The improved performance in 2007 by the delegation of
Mayor Gordon Hall and Tony & Merrill Leeson indicates that
St. Walburg was good and is now better.
Mayor Gordon Hall said: “The Town can now claim to be a
world class sustainable, liveable community.”
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