Gold success for Orkney achievers

July 10, 2015 at 4:02 pm

Councillor Harvey Johnston (chairman OIC education, leisure and housing committee), Halina Romaniszyn, Ingrid Kerr, Aidan Morrison, George Ellis, and Wilf Weir (OIC executive director of education, leisure and housing).

Four young folk from Orkney have been awarded the highest accolade in the Duke of Edinburgh programme.

Halina Romaniszyn, Ingrid Kerr, Aidan Morrison and George Ellis were presented with their Gold awards by Fiona Macleod, Acting Minister for Children and Young People, at a reception at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh attended by HRH Earl of Wessex.

All four have worked their way up through all three levels of the award completing the five sections of the award (expedition, residential, volunteering, physical and skill) over the last twelve months.

Walter Gorman from the OIC’s community learning and development team said: “I would like to say a huge ‘well done’ to our young Gold achievers.

“It is by no means an easy task to complete all three levels and all sections of the award and especially Gold level. It involves many hours of training, determination and a challenging final expedition. So Aidan, Halina, Ingrid and George should be immensely proud of their achievements, as I am and I’m sure their parents are.”