Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I would like to pay tribute to a member of the community of Hay River who recently passed away. Lynette Storoz and her three-year struggle with cancer ended on January 1st. Lynette is sadly missed by her husband, Dennis, and her sons, Jason and Kevin. Lynette was a vivacious, vibrant, outgoing, attractive woman. There are so many adjectives that one could use to describe Lynette. She was so full of life. It seemed almost unbelievable when we first learned that Lynette had cancer. She was young, fit, and was a role model for healthy living.

True to her nature in every challenge that she encountered, she approached her diagnosis and recovery head on with positive energy and meticulous attention to detail. In spite of this, this insidious disease took her.

One story about Lynette’s irrepressible spirit is a few years before she was diagnosed with cancer, she woke up one morning and a virus that causes Bell’s Palsy had smitten her and nerves had been affected in her face. It caused complete paralysis on one side of her face. I think most women would have wanted to pull the covers over their head and stay home for a few days. But a few days after that, I was at an oil and gas conference in Calgary and there was Lynette going table to table greeting people and doing her job. I was so impressed with that.

Lynette was good at everything she did. She worked most recently for several years as the director of marketing for Northern Transportation. She loved her work, her coworkers, her network of customers, but she made time for her priorities: her family and many friends. She kept a beautiful home and she loved to entertain her friends. She loved sports and she was an avid golfer.

As her long-time friend and colleague Cameron Clement said at her memorial service recently in Edmonton, she was fun and she was sassy, and anyone who met Lynette Storoz would never forget her.

Mr. Speaker, the many people whom she came in contact with, and the many lives that she touched, and the many people who loved Lynette, will never forget her. I would ask the House to join me in sending our condolences to Lynette’s family in Hay River, and may she rest in peace. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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