A 90-year-old volunteer at Vancouver Island University has won the Extraordinary Senior Award.
That’s a provincewide award started by Retirement Concepts in conjunction with the Pacific National Exhibition and the BC Alzheimer’s Society.
Every morning, Emil Sorensen rides his bike from his Departure Bay home to Vancouver Island University to volunteer in the Heavy Mechanical Trades program.
Sorensen was an instructor in the program for 28 years until he retired in 1992.
Besides his volunteer role on campus, Sorenson also organizes a dinner group for single seniors to break the social isolation and foster new friendships, he volunteers for the Mid-Island Vintage Tractor and Equipment Club and donates fresh produce grown in his backyard garden to the Salvation Army.
