Simcoe.com highlighted the Arts for Peace Festival in Orillia, where in 2016 Mary Gordon was honoured:
Organizers will honor Newfoundland’s Mary Gordon, founder of ‘Roots of Empathy’, a program aimed at reducing aggression and violence in school children.
“Our theme this year is ‘Roots of Peace’,” Bolden said of the event’s tie-in with the 2016 honoree.