Josie Doll
Josie Doll and Medicine Hat got to know each other pretty fast.
After moving here from Lloydminster with her husband 13 years ago, Doll almost immediately got on with the local Chamber of Commerce, which she quickly became heavily involved in.
From coordinating the Festival of Lights in Kin Coulee to organizing the chamber trade shows, Doll wasn’t wasting any time becoming a familiar face around town.
“I met so many people that way,” she says. “It was really the perfect introduction to Medicine Hat. Growing up I didn’t really do a lot of volunteering, though I was kept pretty busy, but it wasn’t really until I moved to Medicine Hat that I really got involved in volunteering.
“I think that says a lot about Medicine Hat and the community; that they can engage somebody in their 20s and get them wanting to be really involved.”
Medicine Hat may have gotten her started but Doll has taken the reins since then in a big way. She has been active in the community in many ways, from organizing several downtown events to serving as VP of the southern Alberta chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
But her biggest sense of local accomplishment likely came during several years at the Canadian Cancer Society.
“It was just an opportunity that came about, but the idea of working with a cancer charity, of course, is close to my heart as it would be to any other person,” Doll says. “It was really exciting to do work I thought was extremely important. I would say it’s my largest accomplishment to date, outside of my family.”
Doll became unofficially known as the local fundraising head, organizing such events as the Relay For Life, Jail N Bail and Daffodil Days. When she took over the Relay For Life, for example, it was in its second year and was a small fundraiser. Yet by the time she ran her last event, the Relay For Life was the largest fundraiser of all, drawing in more than $300,000.
By the time she finished at the Canadian Cancer Society, Doll was area manager for four southern Alberta offices. But while Doll was busy doing such great work for the CCS, she was also starting a family with her husband, Mike.
“The position required a lot of travel and with a young family, it just wasn’t something I could continue. But I do continue to volunteer for them; in my
time with them my mom was diagnosed with cancer, so anything I can continue to do for them has a very personal feeling for me.”
These days, Doll has been serving as the director of marketing at the Medicine Hat Mall, a position she can do well without having to miss out on time with her family. She is heavily involved in her children’s school lives, often helping out as parent helper in her daughter’s kindergarten class, and is just busy being a mom while her kids get into everything from gymnastics to skating.
But regardless of what is taking up her time from one day to the next, one thing Medicine Hat can count on is Doll will never be too far removed from the community she now calls her own.
Offering a full range of cosmetics, skin care & spa services Æ
34
Medicine Hat Mall Locally owned/Family owned TOP 40 UNDER FORTY | 5
41074647•05/25/12
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44