The Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Realtors (KWAR) presented its Volunteer Award to Dianne Stickney at the association’s Member Appreciation Night recently. The award is given to an individual who has demonstrated commitment and dedication as an association volunteer and who has also made significant impact on their community through various volunteering efforts.
“Dianne Stickney has always placed her community first, be it enhancing the quality of life throughout the greater Waterloo region or her colleagues and peers within the real estate community,” says KWAR EO Bill Duce.
Stickney is a sales representative with Peak Realty and has been a member of KWAR since 1993. She was a founding member of the parent association at Empire Public School and served six years as a public school trustee on the Waterloo County Board of Education.
Within a few years of joining KWAR, she started volunteering on a number of the board’s committees. She has also served on the Women’s Committee of the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. She was a director of the Sunnyside Home Foundation and for eight years she served on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region, where she led the organization as chair from 2011-2013. Stickney also co-chaired the 2009 Habitat for Humanity Women Build.
As campaign chair, she worked with long-time friend Elizabeth Witmer in her political career. She chaired every campaign Witmer ran, starting when she ran for school trustee in 1980, to a decade later when she led a successful campaign to become MPP for Waterloo, a seat she retained until she stepped down in 2012.
“Dianne exemplifies the dedication to community we see in so many of our members,” says Duce. “Whether she is swinging a hammer for Habitat for Humanity, co-ordinating a political campaign or helping a first-time homebuyer realize their dream of home ownership, Dianne is fully committed.”
