STRAIT AREA - As he wraps up his first year in the Local Journalism Initaitive (LJI) program, working out of Telile Community Television in Arichat, Adam Cooke has wrapped up "The Voices of 2020" in a bow to look back at the past 12 months in Nova Scotia's Strait of Canso region.

Newsmakers, commuinty-builders, game-changers and change-seekers included in the latest TELILE 24/7 Podcast, "The Voices of 2020," include:

New Richmond County Warden Amanda Mombourquette; newly re-elected Port Hawkesbury Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton and new councilor Jason Aucoin; new Mulgrave town councilor Krista Luddington; new We'koqma'q First Nation chief Annie Bernard-Daisley and band councilor Stephen Michael Googoo; Potlotek First Nation chief Wilbert Marshall and Chief Executive Officer Crystal Nicholas; LGBTQI and autism advocate Taylor Linloff; Special Olympian and Black Lives Matter rally organizer Sasha Repko; Mabou Anti-Racism Rally speaker Darnell Kirten; Strait Regional Centre for Education executive director Paul Landry; schoolteacher Lisa McNamara and school principal Jacinta Samson-Sullivan; Isle Madame Tourism and Trade Association chair Lisa Boudreau; Clairestone Inn operator Shauna Austin; Dr. Robert Martel, who came out of retirement to offer his services to help fight the spread of COVID-19; the former executive director of the Strait Area Chamber of Commerce, Susan Fox; former Cape Breton-Canso MP and new Canadian Consul-General to New England, Rodger Cuzner; former Cape Breton-Richmond MLA Michel Samson; Liberal leadership candidates Labi Kousoulis and Iain Rankin; Nova Scotia PC Leader Tim Houston and Richmond PC candidate Trevor Boudreau; Port Hawkesbury Volunteer Fire Department Chief Curtis Doucet; and Cape Breton South Recruiting For Health physician-recruitment navigator Maggie MacDonald.