List a service club, a good cause or a critical social program and Lucy Marco has probably been there and done that.

The 86-year-old super volunteer has a lifetime of work to her credit where she started, fund raised or pushed along dozens of local projects, using her fearsome people skills to inspire those around her to join in.

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“My passion is this community and the people that live in it,” Marco said in a recent interview.

Raised by an immigrant widow who wasn’t afraid to try anything, Marco was dragged along to get involved, starting with a role on her mom’s CKPC radio program, that led to helping the community in dozens of ways.

She helped found Brantford’s International Villages to celebrate the many ethnic cultures of the community. She talked up housing as th

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