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Flin Flon MLA Gerard Jennissen delivered the following member's statement May 12: Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to rise in the House today to speak about a wonderful couple, two of my great friends and constituents, Heather Acres and Alan Vowles. Heather is a community organizer in Flin Flon. I first worked with her in the 1980's when she was a member of the Race Relations Committee. In 1999 she helped start Green Project, a community-wide effort to re-vegetate the Flin Flon and Creighton area, restoring the landscape to its natural beauty. She also started a school mentor program in the Flin Flon school division. Heather received a Governor General's Award for establishing the Wolf Project, a race relations initiative designed to promote respect and understanding. In 2000, Heather brought the Virtues Project to Flin Flon, a global initiative that helps people develop their own character strengths. Heather is also co-founder of Healthy Flin Flon, a project that fosters collaboration between government and individual citizens. Alan is a well known and respected geophysicist with HudBay Minerals. On March 2, along with geologist Kelly Gilmore, Alan accepted the Bill Dennis Award for a Canadian mineral discovery by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. Alan led the company's geophysics team which used an innovative technique to discover the Lalor zinc and gold deposit near Snow Lake. Not only is he an award-winning scientist, Alan is also a wonderful artist; one of his paintings hangs in this very legislature. Together, Alan and Heather invented the Wavemill or WET EnGen, a breakthrough green technology that requires no fuel. It uses the energy of the sea itself to convert waves into clean electricity and fresh potable water. In 1996 the design won first place at the Canadian Greenvention Awards given by the Canadian Innovation Centre for the best environmental invention of the year. With this invention, Alan founded Wave Energy Technologies, now based in Winnipeg and Halifax. Mr. Speaker, Heather and Alan are exceptionally bright, generous and creative individuals. I'm so glad they've put their talents to work in my constituency. Thank you.
