EMS Recruit Receives Bill Macri Memorial Scholarship

Essex-Windsor EMS recruit Aaron Mackenzie is the 2021 recipient of the Bill Macri Memorial Scholarship.

The $1,000 scholarship was presented by Jeanie Macri in memory of her husband, an Essex-Windsor EMS paramedic who began his career in 1981 and died in 2013 after battling cancer.

The scholarship, given annually to a paramedic student at St. Clair College, was established by a not-for-profit organization called the William Macri Memorial 4th Watch set up by the Macri family and volunteers from Essex-Windsor EMS.

Its purpose is to provide financial support to a paramedic in training who shows the same passion for service excellence, continuous learning and development of self as Bill Macri, who was awarded the Governor General’s EMS Exemplary Service medal in 2009. Applicants must write an essay about themselves when they apply and intend to pursue employment as a paramedic.

The first scholarship was awarded in 2014 and Mackenzie is the eighth recipient.