Students get some support from salmon stewardship bursary

The Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF) announce two recepients of $500 bursary awards for the 2005/2006 academic year. The awards for the inaugural year for the Stewardship Community Bursary went to Brenda Boye, a BCIT student from Surrey and Leonard Guno, a Malaspina University-College student from New Aiyansh.

This bursary is awarded annually to a full-time, BC university student who is an active volunteer in the aquatic stewardship community. The spirit of the bursary is to reduce the financial barriers to achieving success for aquatic stewardship volunteers enrolled in education and training programs that support their goal of a career in salmon recovery.

Guno is in his second year of the Resource Management Officer Technician program. A full-time student, Guno has worked and volunteered for the past five years with Nisga'a Fisheries, where he is involved in the Nass River Fishwheel program, the Radio Telemetry program, and chinook and coho studies.

Brenda Boye is a second year BCIT student in the Fish, Wildlife and Recreation program. A full-time student, Boye is a volunteer with the City of Surrey where she works doing riparian rehabilitation along salmon bearing streams.