"We're the brightest light, on the darkest day-" Alan Doyle on what it means to be a Newfoundlander...
Congratulations to Alan Doyle for being awarded the Canadian Red Cross, Newfoundland Humanitarian of the Year (2016) award. The gala dinner was held on the 23 November, 2016 at the Convention Centre in St.
John’s, Newfoundland.
The Newfoundland newspaper The Telegram live streamed the gala dinner and a short concert by Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies
on Facebook. While I did not watch the awards ceremony, I did watch the fabulous concert by Alan
Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies. Thanks to The Telegram for including the fans.
As the event was live streamed Great Big Sea and Alan Doyle
and The Beautiful Gypsies fans from Canada and around the world were able to
log onto the site, listen and post comments as the awards unfolded. Alan and
The Beautiful Gypsies sang some of their new music and some Great Big Sea
favourites. Alan sang a beautiful new song called 'Somewhere In A Song' about
growing up in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland which was dedicated to his parents Jean
and Tom Doyle who were in the audience.
The first post is from alanthomasdoyle’s official Instagram account with the sponsors and the second post is from Twitter from the speech made by Alan Doyle on what it means to be a Newfoundlander and why he volunteers. The third post is also from Twitter of the Young Humanitarian and Humanitarian of the Year winners together and the final post is The Telegram’s live stream on Facebook.
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador covered the event online with updates on social media and through news articles. They published an article
with some nice photographs and is titled “Alan Doyle honoured with
Canadian Red Cross Humanitarian award ” by Jeremy Eaton, posted on 23 November,
2016. I have provided a link here and circulated a copy of the article on my
Google + page.
The Telegram also published an article about the awards “Red
Cross NL honours humanitarian of the year” posted on 23 November, 2016. The
article provided links to the Facebook page where the live stream was occurring
and recorded. I logged onto Facebook and at the time of the writing of
this post they were still available for those interested. I have provided a link here to the article.
VOCM local Newfoundland News published “Red Cross Honours Doyle, Ramjattan With
Humanitarian Awards” published on 24 November, 2106 about the awards.
I love this quote from the article by Alan Doyle…
“23-year-old Miranda
Ramjattan was presented with the Young Humanitarian Award for, among other
things, her volunteer work with autistic children. Doyle was very impressed by
her long list of accomplishments at such a young age.
Doyle joked "if
you had seen me and my brother Bernie and Perry when I was 23 in the house we
were living in on Suez Street, we were more likely to get help from the Red
Cross than get an award."
I have provided a link here to the article.
