A Gimli resident is one of 12 to receive the Order of Manitoba.
Robert Kristjanson has served on the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary for 35 years.
Kristjanson created public awareness about the growing algae problem on Lake Winnipeg.
“It goes all the way back to when we were fight the waters from the United States and that goes all the way back to then when we first got started. Of course I have been so about water. To me if we don’t have good water, we won’t have fish and when we see this algae had got started it just about floored us. I did everything I could.”
He has been a commercial fisher in the Interlake region for 70 years and volunteer with various local community groups.
Kristjanson will receive the honour in July at a special ceremony at the Manitoba Legislative Building.
