Ivan Kinny is highly commended
Pearl Beach's Ivan Kinny received a highly-commended award in the Health and Wellbeing category of the 2013 NSW Seniors Week Achievement Awards.
Since he retired from teaching English and working as a high school principal, Mr Kinny has been playing organ for several churches and fostering groups of local singers and musicians.
For nearly a decade, he conducted the Peninsula Choir.
Each Christmas, he organises a small band of these choristers to entertain the War Widows, several aged care facilities, Umina Library and Woy Woy Hospital.
He is chairman of the Woy Woy Hospital Alliance and has been active in the Pearl Beach Annual Music Festival.
Website, 28 Mar 2013
NSW Family and Community Services