6:00 PM
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg
The 47th annual John A. Macdonald Dinner of the Manitoba Historical Society will be held on Saturday, 28 January 2012 in the Provencher Room of the Fort Garry Hotel, starting at 6:00 PM.
Sylvia Kuzyk,
veteran television news broadcaster, will be the featured speaker at the
47th Annual Sir John A. Macdonald Dinner on 28 January 2012.
Sylvia Kuzyk is a veteran television news broadcaster who spent most of her nearly 38 year career at CTV Winnipeg, formerly CKY Television.
For years Sylvia was CTV’s weather specialist, endorsed by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. She was committed to bringing Manitobans forecasts they could trust. She was also a news interviewer and host/producer of CTV Winnipeg’s arts and entertainment segment “Spotlight”. One of western Canada’s first women in news broadcasting, Kuzyk started her career at CTV as a weather anchor. Over the years she performed many roles including late night and 6:00 p.m. news anchor/editor/producer and host/producer of several daily and weekly interview shows.
Sylvia Kuzyk has won numerous public service awards from such organizations as the Kidney Foundation of Canada (1988), the John Alexander Media Award for her interview series “Multiple Sclerosis: The Baffling Disease” (1994) ... and the Manitoba Volunteerism Award for Media (1996). She was awarded the Toastmasters International Communication and Leadership Award in 1999.
In 2004, Kuzyk received the YM/YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Media and Communications. In 2005 the Broadcasters Association of Manitoba honoured Kuzyk with the Broadcast Excellence Award for her work in the Manitoba broadcast industry ... and in 2010 she was presented with the RTNDA Canada (Canadian Radio and Television News Directors Association) Lifetime Achievement Award, Prairie Region.
In September of 2011, Sylvia was again honoured by the Broadcasters Association of Manitoba with the Hall of Fame Award for significant contribution to the broadcast industry in Manitoba.
In October, 2011, she was awarded the Inspiring Life Award by the Rotary Club of Winnipeg, Fort Garry and was named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International “for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world.”
Sylvia Kuzyk was invested into the Order of Manitoba in 2009.
She was born in Berlin, Germany and immigrated to Manitoba as a young child. She is still fluent in German. Sylvia loves to call Winnipeg home and is an ardent promoter of this city and province.
Tickets are $100 each for MHS members, and $110 each for non-members.
To obtain tickets for the 2012 Sir John A. Macdonald Fundraising Dinner:1. Send e-mail to the MHS office at info@mhs.mb.ca with your ticket order. We will contact you to complete the financial details. 2. Call MHS Visitor Services at 204-947-0559. |
Page revised: 19 January 2012
