Diocesan News
Special award for veteran road safety campaigner
Veteran road safety campaigner Albert Smallwoods has received a special award from the Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Alderman Hilary McClintock, in recognition of more than half a century’s voluntary service trying to reduce carnage on the North West’s roads.
Alderman McClintock invited Mr Smallwoods to the Mayor’s Parlour on Monday afternoon to collect the award. The Watersideman – who is now in his 52nd year of membership of the Foyle and District Road Safety Committee – is the only surviving member of the original committee, which was established in the mid–sixties.
Mr Smallwoods is also involved with the Londonderry Home Safety Committee, the Scout movement and St John Ambulance, and he is a diocesan representative on the Church of Ireland’s Bishops’ Appeal Committee for the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe. He was awarded an MBE by the Queen in 1993.
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