GALAS

Each chapter of Top 7 Over 70™ holds a gala every two years to celebrate a new class of Top 7 Over 70 recipients. Gala tickets for the 2025 Calgary event will be available soon. Watch this space for details. Gala information for the 2026 Southeastern Top 7 Over 70 event will be announced early next year.

In the meantime, here’s a look at many memorable moments from past galas. Feel free to download and share the photos!

2024 TOP 7 OVER 70 GALA FOR SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA To see photos from the first Top 7 Over 70 gala event in Medicine Hat click here. Video of the winners is available here.

2023 TOP 7 OVER 70 GALA IN CALGARY Click here for photos and go to this link to watch the gala event on YouTube.

2021 TOP 7 OVER 70 GALA IN CALGARY (This gala was postponed from 2021 to May 26, 2022, due to the pandemic.) Click here for photos. You can watch a video of the Top 7 Over 70 gala on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvzrvLixlM

2019 TOP 7 OVER 70 GALA IN CALGARY Photos from the 2019 event are available here. Videos from the 2019 event are posted on the Top 7 Over 70 YouTube channel, which can be found here: https://bit.ly/35Xgi3S . You’ll find videos about each award recipient on this YouTube channel, along with a three-part video of the entire gala program.

2017 TOP 7 OVER 70 GALA IN CALGARY Click here to see photos from the inaugural Top 7 Over 70 Gala. That post also has individual video links for each of that year’s recipients and a video of the gala is here.

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2024 TOP 7 OVER 70 RECIPIENTS — SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA

Medicine Hat hosted the first Top 7 Over 70 event for Southeastern Alberta in October 2024. A summary of that event is here.

The 2024 Top 7 Over 70 recipients in Southeastern Alberta.
The 2024 Top 7 Over 70 recipients in Southeastern Alberta, from left to right: Deborah Forbes, Jacob Eckert, Martha Munz Gue, Bill Yuill, Wilma Hunter, Blair Reed, and Nancy Hanson.

2023 TOP 7 OVER 70 RECIPIENTS

This group, representing the fourth set of Top 7 Over 70 award recipients, was simply awe-inspiring. Meet the award winners by clicking here.

The winners of the 2023 Top 7 Over 70 awards were (back row) Ron Ghitter, Tom Jackson, John Scott, Mogens Smed, Benno NIgg; (front row) Janice McTighe and Tania Willumsen.

2021 TOP 7 OVER 70 RECIPIENTS

No goal was seen as too large for recipients of Top 7 Over 70 awards in 2021. Their stories are available here.

The 2021 Top 7 Over 70 winners: Front row, seated: Marg Southern and Bonnie Kaplan; Back row, left to right: Don Taylor, Miiksika’am (Elder Clarence Wolfleg), Sherali Saju, Louis B. Hobson and Murray McCann.

2019 TOP 7 OVER 70 RECIPIENTS

The 2019 recipients were known for making a difference locally and globally. The full story is here.

The 2019 Top 7 Over 70 winners at the Oct. 17 gala: Back row (l-r) Ken Stephenson, Eldon Smith, Bob Brawn, John Lacey; front row (l-r) Jacqueline Cameron, Gus Yaki, Sylvia Rempel. Photo by Christina Ryan.

2017 TOP 7 OVER 70 RECIPIENTS

Want to learn more about who received the first set of Top 7 Over 70 awards? Click here to find out, and to learn why there are eight winners pictured here!

Amin Ghali, Al Muirhead, Gerry Miller, Don Seaman, Vera Goodman, Alan Fergusson, (citation of unique merit winner) Richard Guy and Marjorie Zingle.