Performing Arts being awarded the Prestigious "Theatre Preservation Award" presented by the League of Historic American Theatres. She was also instrumental in obtaining $7M in Federal and Provincial Funding to complete the construction of the Icomm Centre which has subsequently become the home of the Brantford Charity Casino. In 1999, George chaired a citizen's committee that examined payment for councillors, police board members and appointees to Brantford Hydro. She supported Mike Hancock's successful bid to become mayor of Brantford in 2003 and his bid for re-election in 2006. Federal and provincial politics George was initially a member of the New Democratic Party, but later joined the Progressive Conservatives. She opposed a suggestion, made in 1996, that her party should merge or cooperate with the Reform Party of Canada. In 1984 she contested the nomination for the Progressive Conservative Party, losing to Rick Sterne. After the Progressive Conservative Party merged with the Canadian Alliance in 2003, she joined the resultant Conservative Party of Canada. In the 2008 federal election, she was an organizer for Conservative candidate Phil McColeman. In the 1999 provincial election, George was the campaign manager for Progressive Conservative candidate Alayne Sokoloski. References Living people Mayors of Brantford Women mayors of places in Ontario Year of birth missing (living people)