advisory committee. In 2007 Savona received the city of Toronto's "Unsung Hero" award. In March, 2011, Sam was elected as the Chair for the TTC Advisory Committee on Accessible Transportation (ACAT). On October 17, 2013 Savona was awarded the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship. Parry Sound—Muskoka: Carl Wirth Carl Wirth was a telephone technician during the election, having worked for Bell Canada since 1983. He is active in the labour movement and has held several executive positions with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) Local 39. He has also fought against deregulation, cutbacks to social services, poverty, and child labour. Wirth joined the Parry Sound—Muskoka NDP association in 1989 and worked on several campaigns. Fifty-two years old in 1997, he acknowledged he had no change of winning the riding. He received 1,700 votes (3.98%), finishing fourth against Liberal incumbent Andy Mitchell. St. Catharines: Ed Gould Gould was educated at Niagara College, and worked as a millwright for General Motors. A veteran of the labour movement, he served as acting president of the Canadian Auto Workers Local 199 (Buffalo News, 26 February 1999) and participated in "Days of Action" protests against the provincial government of Mike Harris in the late 1990s (Canada NewsWire, 7 April 1998). Gould has also served as recording secretary of the Niagara Falls Regional Skilled Trades Council and president of the St. Catharines labour council. He received 4,657 votes (9.60%) in 1997, finishing fourth against Liberal incumbent Walt Lastewka. Scarborough Southwest: Dave Gracey Gracey began his professional career as a foreign service officer, and later worked as a high school teacher and principal. He had retired by the time of the 1997 election (Toronto Star, 30 May 1997). During the 1980s, he served as chair of the Scarborough Peace Association (Toronto Star, 23 June 1987). He sought election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Scarborough Centre in the 1975 and 1977 Ontario elections, as a candidate of the provincial New Democratic Party. He came close to winning in 1975, but lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Frank Drea on both occasions. Gracey campaigned for the federal NDP in Scarborough West in 1984 and 1988, and in Scarborough Southwest in 1997. He lost to Progressive Conservative Reg Stackhouse on the first occasion, and to Liberal Tom Wappel on the latter two. In 1988, he defeated Judy Rebick for the Scarborough West NDP nomination (Toronto Star,