{"id":47477,"date":"2018-06-07T08:33:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=47477"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:43","slug":"carleton-alumna-waneek-horn-miller-receives-meritorious-service-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/carleton-alumna-waneek-horn-miller-receives-meritorious-service-decoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Alumna Waneek Horn-Miller Receives Meritorious Service Decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Alumna Waneek Horn-Miller Receives Meritorious Service Decoration\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University alumna <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cu75\/2015\/waneek-horn-miller\/\">Waneek Horn-Miller<\/a>was honoured by the Governor General Julie Payette at Rideau Hall with a Meritorious Service Decoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horn-Miller was part of a group of 43 police officers and civilians honoured for their bravery and service to others on June 5, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A champion for Indigenous arts, culture and sport, Horn-Miller is a former Olympic waterpolo player who has lent her leadership skills to various causes. She promotes active and healthy lifestyles among Indigenous youth, advocates on behalf of the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and promotes the preservation of traditional arts. She is a wonderful role model and continues to work with the Canadian Olympic Committee to build lasting relationships with Indigenous athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horn-Miller won a gold medal at the Winnipeg Pan Am Games in 1999 and co-captained the Canadian team at the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Meritorious Service Decorations celebrate Canadians who have performed an exceptional deed or activity that brings honour to Canada. The decorations are separated into military and civil divisions, with two levels each: a cross and a medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<br>\n<\/strong>Steven Reid<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-520-2600, ext. 8718<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a>Steven_Reid3@Carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carleton Flipboard account: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@carletonstories\/carleton-stories-0gbu905my\">https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@carletonstories\/carleton-stories-0gbu905my<\/a><br>\n<strong>Follow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\n<strong>Need an expert?<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Go to:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts\">www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University alumna Waneek Horn-Millerwas honoured by the Governor General Julie Payette at Rideau Hall with a Meritorious Service Decoration. Horn-Miller was part of a group of 43 police officers and civilians honoured for their bravery and service to others on June 5, 2018. A champion for Indigenous arts, culture and sport, Horn-Miller is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[116,100,88,180,1562,1563],"class_list":["post-47477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-alumni","tag-athletics","tag-awards","tag-indigenous","tag-olympics","tag-water-polo"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47480,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47477\/revisions\/47480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}