By Matthew McCully – In the lead up to National Organ and Tissue Donation Week, the City of Sherbrooke hosted a ceremony Thursday at City Hall to award Dr. Richard Tremblay, President of the Canadian Organ Donation Association, and Dr. Javier Teijeira, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon with the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Exceptional Merit. “Quebec society owes you a lot. The work that you do has helped preserve life and give hope. Altruism guided your actions. You are they type of people that every society badly needs,” commented J. Michel Doyon, Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, at Thursday’s ceremony. See full story in the Friday, April 19 edition of The Record.
Two Sherbrooke residents honoured for exceptional merit
