Jim and Linda Gourlay to jointly receive Volunteer of the Year Award

Magazines Canada has issued a revised press release concerning its Volunteer of the Year award, adding Jim Gourlay as co-winner with his wife Linda. The couple are co-owners and co-publishers of Saltscapes magazine. based in Halifax. An earlier release on Monday named Linda Gourlay as the recipient of the prestigious award. In its revised release, the organization cited the couple's "outstanding volunteer contributions [that] have had a national impact on the Canadian consumer magazine industry" and said:

Jim and Linda Gourlay are a team who own and publish Saltscapes. Both are staunch magazine advocates and generous volunteers, nationally and regionally. Jim was a driving force behind the evolution of the Atlantic Magazines Association and served as Chair in its first year, and Linda has been a valuable member of the Magazines Canada board of directors for the last 6 years. Linda also chaired the Magazines Canada Consumer Marketing Committee for the last 4 years and she and Jim are co-chairing the International Regional Magazine Association conference being held in Nova Scotia in the fall of 2008. In addition to these acts of volunteerism, Jim and Linda have made time throughout their busy careers to sit on industry task forces, speak at conferences and share their expertise and passion with colleagues and students, for the betterment of the industry.