• Awarded on: February 22, 2001

Doris Kathleen Dewhurst, Archewill, Sask.
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award

In the early 1980s, Doris Dewhurst was a member of a volunteer board responsible for establishing home care services for seniors. Herself a senior living alone, she singlehandedly organized and prepared one dinner a month at the local seniors' centre for others who lived by themselves. Although poor health recently forced her to turn responsibility for the program over to a local church, she remains actively involved in her church and community. She makes quilts and baby blankets for Canadian Lutheran World Relief, and for several years has sewn neckerchiefs for a local Scout group.