George William Taylor - Community Service

Community Service

• Coach Don Mills Civitan Hockey League 1966. This was coaching peewee aged 12 year old boys for a three year period. • Director United Appeal Barrie 1972. The duties were to create procedures to canvass professional members of the community to obtain annual funding donations. • Director Barrie YM-YWCA 1972-1973. The duties were to set policy, programs, membership fees, fund raising, budgets, staff employment, and overall policy for operating the YMCA indoor and outdoor swimming, pools, gymnasium and public use of meeting rooms. • Director and Host Public Affairs Show Cable 8 Barrie 1970. For 4 years he conducted a live cable show by obtaining guests, setting format, interviewing the guests on topical community subjects. • Campaign Chairman Canadian Cancer Society Barrie 1975. The duties required preparation for the drive, the receiving of material to conduct the fundraising drive, obtaining volunteers, distribution of material to and pickup from volunteers, publicity, instructing volunteers, reporting results to head office. • Manager Barrie Lions Minor Hockey Team 1976-77. Buy equipment, file game scores, make up team roster, file league reports, set schedules, arrange transportation, and assist the coach to run practice and games. • Manager Barrie Minor Hockey Team 1973. Buy equipment, file game scores, make up team roster, file league reports, set schedules, arrange transportation, assist the coach to run practice and games, arrange tournaments, prepare schedule play-offs, arrange ice time. • Sponsor 6 years Knights of Columbus Minor Hockey Team 1976-84. This was a personal financial contribution to operate the team. • Founder Terry Fox Run Barrie 1980. On Terry Fox’s run across Canada our local Barrie running organization welcomed Terry to Barrie presented him with our team running jersey and held the first Terry Fox run dedicated to his courage in September of that year just prior to his death. • Founder and Past President Crime Stoppers Simcoe, Dufferin, Muskoka. This is a North American organization dedicated to providing an anonymous procedure for police to receive information on crime activity to thus reduce crime. The liaison with the police is set up, funding is raised for staff and equipment, a board of volunteers is secured to operate the organization. • Director Canadian Red Cross Barrie 1987-88. The duties were to set the general policy for the local organization. • Financial contributor to Shaw Festival Niagara On The Lake. Taylor purchased a seat by funding it for the George Theatre. Financial contributor to Gryphon Theatre Barrie. Financial contributor to MacLaren Art Center Financial contributor to WNED a PBS TV station. Financial contributor to Trans Canada Trail Financial contributor to Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Financial contributor to Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Financial contributor to Trans Canada Trails Financial contributor to many charities i.e. CNIB, Cancer, MS, RVH, • Fund raiser for Canadian Association for the Community Living Advisory Board. The duty was to arrange funding donations from leading citizens in the community. • Member to the Advisory Committee Ontario Provincial Auditor 1986. The duty was to meet quarterly to advise the Provincial Auditor on improvements to the auditing procedures for the provincial government to get value for the tax money. • Release Letter writer to Amnesty International. The activity was to write personal letters to governments that held people in captivity wrongfully for political reasons. • Rotary Club of Barrie member 22 years director and secretary. The Rotary club is a local service club. He participated in many fund raising activities, social event planning, arranging of notable speakers on topics of concern in the community, executive planning and full club secretarial duties concerning membership, club governance and reporting to international headquarters. • Director Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce. This director duty involved advising on activities of the municipality. • Alumni Representative McMaster University for the Barrie area. This was to introduce potential graduating students to the features of McMaster. As a hockey alumnus he contributed financially when they had a team to keep the team functioning. Similarly as a football alumnus he financially contributed to the Adopt an Athlete player programme for a numbers of years so the player was subsidized to be able to play in the varsity programme. • Director of Barrie Executive Association. This is an association to build business networks within the community. • Fund raiser Salvation Army. Each year he volunteers to solicit at the Christmas fund raising kettles. • Director Huronia Trails and Greenways. His duties as a director on this organization was to promote nature trails, particularly rails to trails philosophy for walking, bike riding, snowmobiles, cross country skiing, horse back riding, holding public educational forums, submissions to local councils, fund raising, liaising with the Trans Canada Trails Association, map creating and maintenance of trails. • Ontario Winter Games Chairman at Barrie 1991. In 1991 for the Barrie-Collingwood venue he was Chairman of the Ontario Winter Games a 16 multi-sport event for Olympic hopefuls, with a budget of $2 million, participation of 2500 young athletes from throughout Ontario, 1000 volunteers, concluding the event with a legacy fund of $100,000.00. For over two years as a hands-on leadership Chairman he was responsible for the co-ordination with 16 sport organizations, securing services for transportation, security, accommodations, selection of venues, purchase of the equipment, officials, medical support, recruiting volunteers, feeding arrangements, hearing sport arbitrations as the final arbitrator, opening and closing ceremonies, obtaining public sponsorship support which included financial and advertising. He developed an efficient organizational team yet frequently mediating competing municipal concerns in his coordinating leadership role to bring together the two sponsoring communities of Barrie and Collingwood 45 miles apart running events in both communities while recognising the desires of both • Member Barrie Council Compensation Review Committee 1998. This was a three member committee to review the present compensation and make recommendations for change for elected city councillors. He was responsible for writing the report. • He as awarded the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Community Service Medal 1977. This medal was awarded to Canadians who have made a significant contribution to their fellow citizens, their community or to Canada. • Honorary Chief Christian Island Ojibway Indian Band. He received the honorary name of, “Speaker for the People.” • Awarded Barrie Chamber of Commerce Willard Kinzie Award for Contribution to Sport and fitness 1991. This is a civic award in Honour of a former mayor of Barrie who had a keen interest in sports. He has assisted many sport programs in Barrie and received the recognition by this award. • Volunteer Christmas Cheer Food Program. Assist in packing food hampers for distribution to needy families for 3 days prior to Christmas. • Awarded Canadian Medal for Service to Community 1992. This was awarded to him recognizing the many volunteer activities he had done in the community. This medal was awarded to Canadians who have made a significant contribution to their fellow citizens, to their community or to Canada • Ontario Senior Winter Games Chairman Barrie 2006. He completed in 2005 as a hands-on Chairman for the Barrie venue of Ontario Senior Games Association for the winter senior games which includes a budget of $500,000.00, approximate 800 over the age of 55 senior athletes from all over Ontario, participating in a multi-sport event over three days, including the responsibility for venues, accommodation, transportation to and during the events, raising funds, advertising and support, security, feeding, medical requirements, opening and closing ceremonies, logo production, medal ceremonies terminating in the production of a summary report on conclusion to the distribution in the community of the $118000.00 legacy fund. • Volunteer Kids Of Steel Triathlon 2000 to 2006. For 5 race years he directed traffic on race roads to keep the route safe for the participants in the race. • Founding Director Ontario Deputy Judges Association 2001 to 2004. This association is for the deputy judges of the Small Claims Court a branch of the Superior Court of Ontario. The duties were to attend monthly meeting of the executive, arrange instructional lectures, prepare petitions to the Attorney General on the needs of the deputy judges, increase membership, create a news letter and web site, meet with the senior Superior Court judges, write a history of deputy judges, arrange publicity, assist in preparation for litigation against the Attorney General. • Member Royal Victoria Hospital Research Ethics Board 2006. This is a volunteer position to review the ongoing medical research clinical trials studies being conducted at the hospital to assure patient privacy, consent, knowledge, safety, and numerous other features of government requirements and assure best practices are carried out. • Volunteer for the Canadian Golf Tour 2006. This was for 4 days at Horseshoe Valley Golf Course being a walking scorer for 3 competitors and reporting the score for the leader board and the internet.

• PROPEL- He was appointed a volunteer October 12, 2007 to Protect & Preserve the Environment of Lake Simcoe. A federal government appointed committee to advise the Minister of the Environment in making the decisions on what projects to fund from the $30 million commitment for the cleaning up the Lake Simcoe watershed.