On Saturday, September 22nd, the UA Local 179 held their 2012 Member Pin Awards.  An evening to honour the hardwork, dedication and standard for excellence of the long-term members of the local.

Please join us in congratulating all of our Pin Award recipients.


Congratulations to our 25 year award recipients - the 25 year recipients received a pin award and a watch for 25 years of service. Congratulations to: (in photo above with Business Manager Troy Knipple and Business Agent Bill Peters and Training Coordinator Ken Busch in no particular order) Edward Bacik, Conor Brown, Dave Chikowski, ronald Fyffe, Gerard Gaulton, Kurt Guenther, Randy Holzer, Glenn Jackson, Scott Kerr, Dave McKechnie, Ken Ouelette, Greg Pastuck, Lawrence Prill, Joseph Sander and John Wiercinski.

Also 25 year recipients not in photo: Congratulations Curtis Amyotte, Andy Banks, Donald Bartok, Eduardo Batalha, Kevin Belof, Brian Blackwood, Robert Christensen, Claude Deault, Albert Fandrick, Richard Gessner, Roger Gordon, Michael grass, Norman Greer, Vern Gunn, Paul Hagerty, Peter Hathcote, Keith Hegel, Greg Henderson, Garry Humenny, William Karapita, Kenneth Lytle, Kellen Mack, Craig Macmillan, John McLennan, Maurice Pellerin, Randy Peters, Len Pittroff, W.R. Pogorzelski, Gary Postnikoff, Gary Schnell, Ernest Solomon, Michael Stabick, Ed Usselman, Stephen Vancryenest, Wilfred Windecker & Gerald Wood. 


Congratulations to our 30 year award recipients -  Congratulations to:(in photo above with Business Manager Troy Knipple and Business Agent Bill Peters and Training Coordinator Ken Busch in no particular order) James Allen, Barry Berner, Brian Bitz, Douglas Bot, Ken Boychuk, James Crawford, Ron Hagel, Manfred Hauser, Kerry Jordan, ron Kish, Rod Kowula, Dave Lichtenwald, John Nemeth, Pat Petryshen, Conrad Rogers, Allan Weir & Angus Workman.

Also 30 year recipients not in photo: Congratulations Rob Amyotte, Rick Antonio, Gordon Banda, Greg Bergman, Gary Bien, Frederick Bolden, William Carter, Dan Catling, Paul Caverly, James Cheyne, Leroy Clark, Jarel Corpe, Donald Crites, Robert Didham, Barry Diederich, Brian Diederich, Perry Gross, Kirk Guttman, Wayne Handfield, Glen Hill, Kim Keen, Blake Kletke, Brent Lanctot, Gordon Lazar, Kenneth Lemieux, John Mayoh, Paul McCahon, Brian McKinnon, Rodney McKinnon, Gerald Ninowski, Don Nordal, John Pawlowski, Peter Penner, Doug Power, Kenneth Reiland, Mervin Reimer, Todd Reiter, Andre Richard, John Richard, Neil Riess, Daryl Shaw, Ronald Sparks, Ben Spreaker, Ian Stephen, Jack Stretch, Garry Tyminski, Louie Uhrmann, Melvin Vandale, Donald Voll, Ken Walker and Kevin Weisshaar. 


Congratulations to our 35 year award recipients -  Congratulations to:(in photo above with Business Manager Troy Knipple and Business Agent Bill Peters in no particular order) Cirillo Barbaro, Nazzareno Barbaro, Kenneth Busch, John Deck, Michael Fitzsimmons, Irvin Krushenicki, Terry McLean, Douglas McPherson, Wayne Messner, Donald Mills, Rodney Perry, Bob Prentice & John Twardzik.

Also 35 year recipients not in photo: Congratulations Cary Bergman, Eugene Boensch, Renato Brudehl, Edward Cwynar, Jeff Downer, Don fee Alfred Fenske, Lloyd Fisher, dale Huber, Dennis Irvine, Danny Jamieson, Joe Keller, Wayne Kjersem, Francis Klein, Louis  Korycki, Rene Legrand, Ellery Lindgren, Arthur Magee, Glen Martin, Leslie Matthews, Leonard McKenney, Don McKinnon, Gregory Moore, Joe Nagy, Rodney Nernberg, Barry Nicholson, Domenico Ranalli, Robert Riddell, Raymond Riel, Hartmut Schlueter, Dave Shropshire, Orrin Smith J.W. Steart, Jack Sykes, Dennis vanghel, Thomas White, Jim Wiest, Dennis Wolff, Arthur Wytrykush and Paul Young.


Congratulations to our 40 year award recipients - Congratulations to:(in photo above with Business Manager Troy Knipple and Business Agent Bill Peters and Training Coordinator Ken Busch in no particular order) Vaughn Grohs, Ivan Lazar, Randy Nichols, Allan Pozniak, Kenneth Stewart, Patrick Sullivan, Peter Syhlonyk and Allan Yuzik.

Also 40 year recipients not in photo: Congratulations Reg Aupperle, Harvey Babcock, Larry Balaski, Lawrence Bareham, Gary Blanchette, Donald Erz, Thomas Flaherty, William Flemming,  Dwight From, Harvey MacDonald, Glenn Matechuk, Burno Nerenberg, Daniel Neudorf, Donald Pearson, Frank Phillips, William Renton, Raymond Siurko, Sidney Stephen, Dieter Thiemann, Allan Weinheimer, Murray Widdifield, Robert Wilson, John Yuzik & Gary Zimmer.


Congratulations to our 45 year award recipients - Congratulations to:(in photo above with Business Manager Troy Knipple and Business Agent Bill Peters and Training Coordinator Ken Busch in no particular order)  Andrew Banilevic, Harvey Fleming, Frank Fochesato, Edward Garry, Alvin Jordison, Charles Leachman, Jack Lutz, Wayne MacDonald, John Mudd and Bill Penner.

Also 45 year recipients not in photo: Congratulations James Brown, Boyd Bell, Lyle brown, Edward Connors, Gerald Duda, S.P. Engele, R. Gjevre, Orest Gulka, Adoplph Hein, Jozef Horvath, Donald Jarvis, Harold Lanctot, Dennis Langford, Bert Middleton, Ronald Nerenberg, Ken Peebles, Denis Pellerin, Hugo Tenezaca, Val Trelenberg, Ron Usselman, Alain Vankriken, Joseph Vorachek and Harry Yaremko. 


Congratulations to our 50 year award recipients - the 50 year recipients received a pin award and a watch for 50 years of service. Congratulations to: (in photo above with Business Manager Troy Knipple and Business Agent Bill Peters and Training Coordinator Ken Busch in no particular order) Arthur Berg, Micheal Bernreuther, Roland Pasquet, Eric Lang, Ferdinand Janke, Erich hilligweg, Heinz Lamla and Wilbert (Blake) Fishley.

Also 50 year recipients not in photo: Congratulations Robert Duzan and William Harder.


Congratulations to our 55 year award recipients - Congratulations to Franz Kadner pictured above with Business Manager Troy Knipple and Business Agent Bill Peters.  Also 55 year recipients not in this photo, Congratulations Konrad Fischer and George Nicholls.



Congratulations to our 60 year award recipients - Congratulations to Dan Cozma pictured above with Business Manager Troy Knipple and Business Agent Bill Peters.  Also 60 year recipients not in this photo, Congratulations John Dutchak and Jack Zulkoskey.

Last but definitely not least, Congratulations to our sole 65 year award recipient - Congratulations to Leslie Fairbrother on 65 years of membership in UA Local 179.  Unfortunately, Leslie was unable to attend the awards dinner.  Congratulations Leslie.

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