May 15, 2006
Recent Vancouver Tourism Award
winners were Macelinda Damayo of the Four Seasons and Judy Waddell of the
Fairmont Waterfront. They were Nominated for their exceptional service.
The Peace Arch Hospital and
Community Health Foundation received $3,720 from South Point Canadian Tire. For
every goal scored by the Surrey Eagles at home games, the store donated $1. The
$1,240 raised was matched by the Canadian Tire Foundation for Families.
The 21st annual Hook & Ladder
Pub duck race in Newton's
King Creek raised a record $2,800 for Surrey Memorial Hospital.
Recipients of B.C. Construction
Roundtable $1,500 scholarships were Dale Mueller of BCIT (Construction
Management) and Kehui Zhang of UBC (Construction Engineering and Management).
B.C. winners of Summit Creative
Awards were NOW Communications Group (1 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze), Kelowna's
Acro Media (1 b), Burnkit (1 s), Coastlines Creative Group (1 b), Creative
Spirit Communications (1 b), Eagle Vision Video of Fort St. John (1 s), Griffiths
Gibson & Ramsay Productions (1 b), Ideastream Design (1 s, 2 b), Kimbo
Design (1 b), McGuffie Design (1 b), McMillan (1 g, 1 s), Malahat Group
International of Victoria
(1 s, 2 b), RKW Communications (1 s), Suplot Design (2 g, 1 s, 1 b), and Tekton
Creative (1 s).
Vancouver Island performance improvement company
Incentive Depot set up volunteer appreciation and fundraising programs,
valued at nearly $150,000, that it will donate to qualifying organizations.
Charities with a national presence and a base of 500 or more volunteers
can apply for the Volunteer Appreciation Recognition Program or the Fundraising
Store.
Pan Pacific Whistler Village
Centre was named to Conde Nast's 2006 HOT List of new properties. Only two
Canadian hotels were named, the other from Quebec.
Starbucks donated $1,000 to the
Richmond Public Library through its Make Your Mark volunteer program. Starbucks
employees volunteered 275 hours on behalf of the library, and the money will
purchase children's books for the Ironwood branch.
Recognized as the Top Employers
for Workplace Diversity by The Canadian Immigrant Magazine were RBC Financial
Group (Banking/Financial category), the CBC (Government/ NGO), SFU (Education),
Safeway (Retail) and channel m Television (Hospitality/Entertainment).
RBC Royal Bank donated $9,700 to
the Richmond Art Gallery's
Family Sunday free art program.
Through its community/corporate
responsibility program, Three Spheres of Reciprocity, JDQ Systems is helping
the Surrey Food Bank Society upgrade its computerized client registration
system.
The BC Hydro Employees' Community
Services Fund (HYDRECS) donated $28,71 to The Salvation Army Belkin House. It
will support the Food Services Pre-Employment program which teaches the
homeless and those at risk the skills necessary for jobs in the food services
industry.
BMO Bank of Montreal
raised $14,140.86 for the BC Cancer Foundation through its Fountain of Hope
employee campaign.
B.C. winners of International
Association of Business Communicators Gold Quill Awards of Excellence were
Wendy Heshka and Sharon Stevens of Communication Solutions in Kamloops and
Bruce Hitchen of Telus Communications (Electronic/ Digital Communication
Management category), Bruce Hitchen of Telus Communications (Electronic/Digital
Communication -- Skills), Meagan Olsen of Coast Capital Savings and Eduarda
Hodgins of West Fraser Timber/Jennifer
Wah of Forwords Communication (Publications), and Catherine Worrall of
Ideastream Design (Publication Design). Awards of Merit were won by Mijanou
Serre of the BC Securities Commission (Economic, Social & Environmental
Development), Roberta Randall of BC Housing, and Heather Prime of BCAA/Tudor
Williams and Ryan Williams of Tudor Williams (Electronic/Digital Communication
Management), and Chris Freek of Prospera Credit Union and Insurance Agencies (2
- Publications, Publication Design).
BC Biotech presented its 2006 BC
Biotechnology Awards to Dale Gann of UVic's Vancouver Island Technology Park
(Volunteer of the Year), Dr. Martin Gleave of OncoGenex Technologies and the
Prostate Centre at VGH (Innovation and Achievement), Richard Glickman of
Aspreva Pharmaceuticals (Leadership), Ross MacGillivray of UBC's Centre for
Blood Research (Genome BC Award for Scientific Excellence), and Neuromed
Pharmaceuticals (Life Sciences Company of the Year).
At the recent North American Skal
Conference, the Vancouver Skal Club received the Top Club in Canada award for the second
consecutive year and was named second overall in North America. The club was recognized for
its support of tourism development through its bursaries for top BCIT Tourism
students, and secretary/treasurer Ivano Corazza was honoured for his
contributions.
C The Vancouver Sun 2006
