April 24th, 2009 at 7:53 am by Melanie Mullen

 

 

Niagara Magazine featuring our most interesting personalities

Mullen is featured in the Series ; In Person With…our most interesting personalities;

Niagara Magazine Volume 5 Issue 4
October/November 2008

Q. How do you relax?
A. Painting. Listening to the wind in the trees. Picking strawberries.

Q. Your most favourite hobby?
A. Laughing.

Q. What do you most value in your friends?
A. Open mindedness, creativity, passion, and goofy-ness.

Q. If you could be doing any other job, what would it be?
A. Building eco-friendly tree houses in the new urban eco cities. Keep your eyes open, it’s soon to come.

Q. What is your most treasured possession?
A. My family.

Q. What would people who know you be surprised to learn about you?
A. My favourite colour is white (not green).

Q. What CD is in your car right now?
A. 14 of Niagara’s Finest Musicians by Canadian Heritage Records.

Q. If you could have a theme song play behind you every time you entered a room, what would it be and why?
A. Faith by George Michael.

Q. If you were stuck on a deserted island, what one thing would you want with you?
A. Hope

Q. What four living people would you like to share dinner with?
A. My 3 sisters April, Faye and Stacey and
Gro Harlem Brundtland, the first Scandinavian women to serve as Prime Minister (of Norway) who created the “Our Common Future” Report in 1987, publicly known as “the Brundtland Commission”, which produced the significant concept of “sustainable development”; it identified the future of global ecology as sustainable growth through environment protection and economic growth.

Q. What’s the best gift you’ve received and why?
A. There are 5,337 of them (every vote counts).
I hold dear the support of my hometown community during the 2007 provincial elections when I ran for the Green Party of Ontario and was able to learn and share sustainable concepts

Q. What’s the last book you’ve read?
A. Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (almost done.)

Q. Who is your hero?
A. Humanity; everyday I have a new hero

Q. What is a unique or quirky habit of yours?
A. Collecting white feathers.

Q. What’s your motto?
A. Reignite yourself; always work hard for what you believe in.

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