A longtime member of Chalmer’s, Hamilton, Ont., has been named the 2010 Hamilton Municipal Senior of the Year. An elder for more than 40 years, Peter Corbett is described as a most active and faithful member and volunteer at Chalmers. He visits shut-ins and those in hospital on a regular basis, and is known as the resident handyman.
Many Hamiltonians have benefited from Corbett’s extensive volunteer work. Since retiring in 1993, he’s been a hard-working and dedicated volunteer fixture at Wesley Urban Ministries, an organization dedicated to ending poverty in Hamilton. He has numerous roles within the organization, including working on the board of directors, assisting clients, sorting and managing food donations, event set-up, maintenance, equipment repair and much more. He has also helped at nearly every Wesley Urban Ministries special event for the past 17 years, and is often the first to arrive and last to leave.
Corbett has also served on the executive of the Hamilton Mountain Heritage Society for eight years and played an instrumental role in the gathering of material that made the publication of Mountain Memories, a volume of history of the Hamilton Mountain, possible.
It was noted that Corbett’s gentle, honest and sacrificial demeanor is a great example for all. — courtesy of Chalmers, Hamilton
