(J.W. Walkers students in recent Great Canadian Shoreline Clean Up)A Fort Frances councillor's request to recognize J.W. Walker School for its contributions to the community has lead to some debate on how the town honours volunteer groups and organizations.
Ken Perry says the school can't be nominated for the town's Citizen of the Year Award, but is deserving of some kind of recognition.
"The Citizen of the Year is still Citizen of the Year," says Perry. "I'm not trying to change that, but I think the school is a good citizen in the town of Fort Frances, but it is a group."
A council committee will look at how to honour the school, but councillor Andrew Hallikas says he'd like to see some kind of mechanism that gives other groups a chance to be recognized in the future.
