ACHIEVEMENT
To have lived well,
laughed often and loved much;
to have gained the love of children;
to have filled a niche
and accomplished a task;
to have left the world better...
whether by an improved poppy,
a perfect poem or a rescued soul;
to have appreciated earth's beauty
and not failed to express it;
to have looked for the best in others,
and to have given the best of yourself.
That is achievement.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Agnes Isabelle
Sovereign
1929 - 2002
Murray, Owen, Agnes and Fred
- Founding member in 1969 of the Vernon chapter of the Society for Pollution and Environmental Control (SPEC)
- Co-founded the North Okanagan Recycling Society;
- Leading role in forming the Vernon Recycling Depot;
- Leading role in forming the Okanagan Basin Implementation Board, a succssor to the Canada-Okanagan Water Basin Study;
- Co-founded the North Okanagan Therapeutic Riding Association;
- Instrumental in forming the B.C. Therapeutic Riding Association;
- Project co-ordinator and Leading role in forming the Vernon and District Community Services Centre
- Leading role in designing the Handicapped Parking Stalls Project in Vernon;
- Leading role in mapping all facilities equiped for the handicapped in Vernon;
- Set up the Sleepy Hollow safe youth hostel in Vernon in the late 1960's and ran it for several years;
- Served with the Vernon Multicultural Society;
- Organized the First Vernon Variety Show;
- Helped set up and present the Vernon Information Fair;
- Leading role, with her husband Art Sovereign, in the campaign to have the Dry stone walls created by
- Instrumental in forming Kalamalka Lake Regional Park.
- Former member of the Vernon and District Women's Centre;
- Former member of the Vernon Jubillee Hospital Auxillary;
- Active in the Coldstream Club and Scout movement
- Community Foundation of the North Okanagan:
and served as President of the Society;
(The People Place) a multi-service community centre;
Alfred Schwach in Vernon declared Heritage Features;
The Agnes I. Sovereign Foundation for the People Place.
- Greater Vernon Chamber of Commerce Good Citizen of the Year for 1991
- Freedom of the City, Vernon 2001
- North Okanagan Youth Resources Society Award of Recognition.
- Rotary International Paul Harris Fellowship
- Government of Canada Certificate of Merit 1988
- Honorary Lifretime Member of the British Columbia Therapeutic Riding Association, Sept 2nd, 1987
- Certificate of Appreciation, Santas Anonymous Society 1994
"Never have two people made such a difference."
Vancouver Sun Tuesday March 3, 1992 page B2
"When Agnes Sovereign, Vernon's best citizen, led the parade through
the centre of the Vernon recently, there was hardly a soul in the
cheering
crowd whose life she had not somehouw touched... The Vernon Winter
Carnival
Parade was a fitting tribute to a woman who has spent the past 34 years
devoting herself to the welfare of the city and its residents."
Nicole
Malcolm and Karly
Her Grandchildren
