Dennis Chippa Quite the achivement for North Bay’s Dennis Chippa.

The well known community leader will be invested next Wednesday by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario into the Order of Ontario at a ceremony at Queens Park. 

Chippa is involved with many community organizations through his work at the AIDS Committee of North Bay and Area but also volunteering at The Warming Centre and Haleyfest.

He says he’s receiving the honor for the complilation of his efforts and he’s honoured.

He says he got the sense of giving back from his parents. 

Chippa has also written a Christmas book which is essentially the story he tells every year at Haleyfest. 

He says it’s overwhelming to receive the honor and it probably won’t sink in till he receives his medal.

World-renowned concert pianist and composer Anton Kuerti leads the list of 24 others who will be invested.
 Former reporter, cabinet minister and one-time CEO of TV Ontario Isabel Basset will also be invested as will Justice Stephen Goudge and Jackie Maxwell, long-time artistic director of the Shaw Festival.
Also on the list is John Gignac, the Brantford fire captain who fought for mandatory carbon monoxide detectors in all Ontario homes after his daughter with local connections and her family died after a leak from a gas fireplace in their Woodstock home in 2008.

(In the above file photo, Dennis Chippa reads from his book “Santa Lost His Suit” at Haleyfest.  Proceeds from the book sales are going to Literacy Nipissing)