Mayor Josh Morgan's 2025 New Year's honour list.
Western graduates Clark Bryan and Maureen Spencer Golovchenko are also among the 2025 honourees.
Crooks was the founding director of Western's Centre for School Mental Health, and co-founder of the Fourth R, a relationship-based program to reduce dating violence and delinquency among youth.
Bryan purchased the venue in 2004, driven by his belief that everyone should have universal access to music and the arts.
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