The Red Deer Centennial Steering Committee was created in 2010 to help prepare for the celebrations of Red Deer's centennial of its incorporation as a City in 1913. It was a committee made up of various individuals and community partners who were chosen by the City administration after an application process. The centennial was to be a collaborative effort between the City of Red Deer and the Central Alberta Historical Society, which provided its expertise and leadership. Its role was not so much to organise activities or fundraise (subcommittees were created for these purposes), but to develop a vision, an image, and to coordinate the overall festivities.

The committee meet every month for three years. As vice-chairperson, my role included leading meetings and keeping preparations going apace. Also, as the City's centennial celebrations were going partly to overlap with Red Deer College's fiftieth anniversary, I was responsible to help coordinate the efforts on both sides where possible. I also constantly raised awareness of the fact that Red Deer sits astride Treaties Six and Seven lands, and that Indigenous peoples needed to be acknowledged and included in celebrations throughout the year. As an instructor, I also invited students in my classes to get involved in Community Service Learning projects around the Centennial celebrations.

Red Deer's centennial celebrations included the planting of a centennial "forest", kick-off skating celebrations on Bower Ponds, several community activities for all ages throughout the year, and were supposed to include a fantastic display of floating lights on the Red Deer River during a weekend of celebrations around July 1, but the high level of the water (this was a year of catastrophic floods) precluded this event and it had to be organised differently at the last minute.