Yukon who is who

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Ronald Dale Pond
	
Ron Pond was twenty-three years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police when he quit his job to take on a new position of executive director managing the planning for the 1992 celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Alaska Highway and the Klondike gold rush centennial celebrations in 1998. He was chosen for his extensive community involvement. Pond was a staff relations officer for the RCMP. He served two terms as president of the Lake Laberge Lions Club and was a director with the Whitehorse Lions Society. He was secretary for the Yukon Curling Association, director of the Westmark Hotels Advisory Board, and a coordinator of the Skills for Adolescence program. He was promotions chairperson for the Yukon Curling Association and host chairperson for the 1987 National Police Curling Championships held in Whitehorse. He introduced the Try Hugs Not Drugs program through the Lake Laberge Lions Club.((Edi Casimirri, “Veteran RCMP sergeant to spearhead celebrations.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 19 September 1988.)) Ron Pond was awarded the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award, the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers, in 1998.