Webster donates $100,000 for Alice Munro Memorial scholarship

June 19, 2024 @ 9:00 amLocal News, Wingham Advance Times

From left: George Webster holds a commemorative Alice Munro coin, part of the Alice Munro Memorial Scholarship award he created to honour the late Wingham-born author. Shae-lynn Irwin, recipient of the scholarship, holds a framed photo of Munro along with two books: Munro’s daughter Sheila Munro’s memoir Lives of Mothers & Daughters: Growing Up with Alice Munro and a collection of Alice Munro’s short stories – part of the gift from Webster to accompany the scholarship. (Rachel Hammermueller photo)

WINGHAM – When George Webster sold his house in a seller’s market, he didn’t do what most people might do – take a six month sabbatical to Italy, scout out a cottage in Muskoka, do absolutely nothing and enjoy it – he chose to invest in the future, someone else’s, that is. For the next…

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