City of Cranbrook Mayor Wayne Stetski has joined ‘the 60,000.’

Stetski was presented with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal on Monday night (Feb. 18), before the start of a city council meeting, by chief administrative officer Wayne Staudt.

“The mayor has had a long career” in public service, Staudt told the gallery while presenting Stetski with the medal, adding the medals are being presented to people who have provided “dedicated service to your peers, your community and to Canada.”

Stetski was a provincial public servant for 30 years, in Manitoba and before his retirement in B.C., focusing on parks and later fish and wildlife and ecosystems.

During his 22-plus years in Cranbrook, he has volunteered, often in leadership capacities, with: minor hockey, minor ball, city Planning Advisory Committee, United Way, Key City Theatre, Citizens for a Livable Cranbrook, College of the Rockies University Studies Math and Science Committee, Kootenay Ice Green Bay Committee, a Beaver leader with Scouts Canada and a Christmas Kettle volunteer with the Salvation Army.

He’s judged the East Kootenay Regional Science Fair, volunteered with his church and has worked on community enhancement projects like Cranbrook in Bloom, cleaning garbage along Joseph Creek with Wildsight and with the Cranbrook Community Forest Society on cleaning and thinning projects.

“As a senior member of our local provincial government I took a leadership role in turning Public Service Week, held annually in June, into an event that puts public servants to work undertaking projects that make Cranbrook a better place,” Stetski related to the public gallery.

“To me being Mayor of Cranbrook is continuing my interest in serving my community,” he said, adding, “That is the context in which I accept the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. This honour is very much appreciated.”

A total of 60,000 Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medals are being awarded to Canadians during the 60th year of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.

Ian Cobb/e-KNOW

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