Congratulations to these Recent Award Winners

2007 Council of the Federation (COF) Award

Joan Acosta, founder, writer and editor of The Westcoast reader, a newspaper for adult literacy and ESL learners since 1982, was named winner of the 2007 COF Literacy Award. Congratulations, Joan!

Read the provincial government news release (pdf) and the announcement on the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) website

The 2007 Cooperators Provincial Learner Achievement Award

Rav Bal of Nanaimo was named this year’s recipient of the Co-operators Award, which recognizes the outstanding achievements of an adult learner in BC. At 27, Rav went back to school, overcame significant learning challenges to achieve first class marks and is now completing Grade 12.

The Co-operators Award was presented at the 2007 PGI Golf Tournament for Literacy BC. For the story and pictures from this year’s PGI and Literacy BC’s newest fundraiser, Literacy & Beyond, visit www2.literacy.bc.ca/whatsnew/pgi07/pgi07.htm.

Learner Award winner Rav Bal flanked by Peter Mansbridge
and Peter Podovinikoff of The Co-operators at the PGI