John Litun Receives VAS Honourary Life Director Award

John Litun Receives VAS Honourary Life Director Award

Hedi Sokolski and Dave Humphries - Submitted

Vegreville Agricultural Society (VAS) is excited to announce the recipient of the 2021 Honourary Life Director Award recipient, John Litun.

A quality of people who are connected with our Ag Society is their ability to see the value of our organization and the impact it makes in our community. John has served as an active Director with the Society for the past 22 years and his quiet, steadfast passion emulates these same values.

One of John’s strong traits is reliability. You can always count on him to diligently attend Directors’ meetings where he is known to assess all information shared and actively and respectfully participate in debates on the issues raised. He further displays his “team” attitude by willingly helping out at work parties.

John served on various committees and in several capacities since he joined the VAS family. He started out as a member of the beef committee in 1999 and served on it until the beef show was cancelled years later. He further shared his skills as a member of the Executive as an Executive Director.

As a Director, in 2000 he joined the parade committee and has been an integral part of making sure the parade flowed smoothly for the past 21 years. When the time came to revamp the VAS float, John was there to lend a helping hand.

John Litun receives award from VAS President Alan Baxandall.

(Rachel Farr/Submitted Photo)

2001 saw John serving on the Race Track committee and, with the help of his partner in crime, Walter Krill, has continued to help make our track the finest in Alberta and Western Canada.

John greatly enjoys helping youth and for years has been a member of the Scholarship committee. He has reviewed many applications and deliberated over annually choosing the best candidates to receive the two annual scholarship awards presented by the Ag Society.

During the ‘pancake breakfast’ years of VAS, one could find John in the kitchen helping prepare breakfast for our hungry patrons. He recently has taken on the fireworks committee ensuring we have a wonderful display to end our yearly Country Fairs.

John takes on any task with confidence and joy. He is steadfast, dependable and easy to engage in conversation with. He relates respectfully to people of all ages and backgrounds.

For all of the above reasons, we strongly support John Litun being a recipient of the 2021 VAS Honorary Life Director Award. John’s service to the VAS over the past two decades plus has been invaluable to the vision and goals of our organization.

Throughout his tenure, he served as a member on various committees including: Beef, Pancake Breakfast, Scholarship, Race Track, Parade, and Fireworks Committees. He also served as an Executive Director.

Every task John has taken on; he has embraced dependably with confidence, joy and great respect for others. He has been and continues to be valuable part of the fabric of VAS.

It is a great honour to present John Litun the Vegreville Agricultural Society Honorary Life Director Award. Congratulations John from all of us at the Vegreville Agricultural Society.