Faye Kary

Faye Kary Community Development, CiB Veteran Faye has recently taken early retirement after over thirty years of service in municipal administration, in a small urban and three larger rural municipalities in northern Alberta. She holds a National Advanced Certification in Local Authority Administration from the University of Alberta. Faye was raised in a small rural community and during most of her married life, lived with her husband and raised two children on a small mixed farm where they raised cattle, small livestock, cereal grains and grass seed. Her large garden, greenhouse and flowerbeds were the first thing noticed by visitors to their farmyard. In recent years she and her husband sold their farm and moved in town where they continue to raise a vegetable garden, apple trees and of course flowers. Faye has been involved with the Communities in Bloom program, as a municipal employee assigned to assist a hamlet with initiating the program and carrying it forward for approximately seven years. Since retirement she continues to volunteer with the local library board which operates three libraries, a local agricultural society which annually hosts chuckwagon races and very much enjoys any time spent with her three granddaughters, sharing her baking and sewing skills.