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Officer John Smith, 2019 Awardee

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Overheard: Impulse 67

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Abby Marie

For a guy like me — I was a drug addict living under a bridge for part of my 20s before I got my life back together — so for …

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2019 in review: 73 awards made, more than $786K dispersed in grants

2019 in review

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

2019 was a relatively quiet year for the Hero Fund compared to the previous year’s excitement of our 10,000th medal awarded. But 2019 was nonetheless a landmark year as the …

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Overheard: Impulse 61

overheard 61

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

I’m a big girl. I’m a strong woman. It didn’t matter at the time. — Vickie Tillman, Carnegie Medal awardee #10000, referencing bruises she sustained while helping rescue a police …

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Carnegie Medal presentation to Carnegie Hero Ryan Scott McIlwain

Carnegie Hero Ryan McIlwain

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Carnegie Hero Fund

From left, Carnegie Hero Ryan Scott McIlwain, 17, of Douro-Dummer, Ont., shakes the hand of Provincial Parliament member Dave Smith, while Douro-Dummer Mayor J. Murray Jones looks on during a …

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Ryan Scott McIlwain

Latest Awardees 58

Posted on June 23, 2019 by Carnegie Hero Fund

On July 13, 2018, 16-year-old, Douro-Dummer, Ont., high school student Ryan Scott McIlwain responded to a man who was struggling to stay afloat in the Otonabee River in Lakefield, Ont. …

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