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Development/Construction
Wallace Ewert has joined Kasian as senior associate and commercial market leader in the design firm’s Vancouver office. Ewert has 30 years of architecture experience and provides value to clients in the delivery of commercial, retail and mixed-use projects. Ewert was the lead architect behind the LEED Gold Neighbourhood Development-certified Uptown Shopping Centre in Victoria, a 10-year project.
Finance
Lisa Humer has joined Branham & Co. Chartered Professional Accountants as principal. Humer provides integrated advice to private corporations, individuals and trusts on financial reporting, income tax compliance and tax planning, estate planning, sale and acquisition of businesses and family business matters. Humer also continues in her role as partner of Humer + Philips Business Strategists, working with business owners to develop strong foundations for management and strategic decisions.
Media
Alan Twigg – writer, documentary filmmaker, theatre critic, musician, columnist, library trustee, television host, charity fundraiser and event organizer – has been named recipient of the 13th annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. B.C.’s lieutenant-governor, Judith Guichon, will present the award at the BC Book Prizes Gala at Government House in Victoria on Saturday, April 30. Twigg has written most of every issue of BC BookWorld since 1987. Since 2001, he has written the vast majority of entries for 11,250 B.C. authors on the ABCBookWorld reference site; it receives more than 4,000 visitors per day. He now generates nearly all of the content for the new BCBookLookomnibus site, and he created all 200 entries for the new Literary Map of BC.
Non-Profit
Lenard Boggio and Paul Terry have been appointed to Genome BC’s board. Boggio retired from his role as audit partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2012 after a 30-year career with the firm. He serves as an independent director on the boards of several publicly listed companies and is a commissioner of the Financial Institutions Commission of B.C. Terry, president and CEO of PHEMI, a big data warehouse company, is also an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University and a partner with Magellan Angel Partners. He currently serves on the boards of Providence Health Care, LifeSciences BC and Molecular You, and is an adviser to the B.C. provincial government on next-generation data strategies.
Kelly Harvey Russ has been appointed chair at the Coastal First Nations. Russ is a founding and current board member of Haida Enterprise Corp., which oversees four subsidiary companies in tourism, logging, fish lodges and fish processing. Russ was a founding board member and past president of Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services, and spent nine years as a part-time commissioner with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, reviewing about 100 complaints per month.
Sales/Marketing
Clare Hamilton-Eddy has joined Yulu PR as managing director. Prior to joining Yulu, Hamilton-Eddy worked at Peak Communicators, Onechocolate Communications and Newsquest. Past clients have included Coca-Cola, Nokia, Telus and Coast Capital Savings. Hamilton-Eddy has extensive experience with strategic planning, project management, coaching and issues and crisis management.
Hats Off
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Rona Home Centre Austin in Coquitlam donated $283.40 to Crossroads Hospice. Funds were raised through popcorn sales donations.
Members of the Richmond business community donated $257,000 to Pathways Clubhouse. Funds were raised at the organization’s recent Taking Care of Business Breakfast. Pattison Group of Companies donated $175,000, which will be used to support the library and dining room in the new building that Pathways will move to in April 2017. Other major donors and sponsors include Conway Richmond Ltd., Heatherbrae Builders, WorkSafeBC, JRFM, Richmond News and Business in Vancouver.
Vancouver-based diamond pioneer and philanthropist Stewart Blusson and his wife, Marilyn, donated $11 million to quantum materials research at University of British Columbia (UBC). In recognition of the gift, the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute has been named in honour of the geology alumnus (B.Sc. ’60). The Blussons are the largest individual donors to UBC, having now contributed more than $60 million to the university. In 1998, they donated $50 million to support fundamental research and academic inquiry, benefiting more than 60 projects.
The Canucks for Kids Fund donated $1 million to BC Children’s Hospital to support a Canucks-themed playroom in the new Teck Acute Care Centre, child and youth mental health initiatives and Child Life programs. The playroom will be designed in tribute to the Vancouver Canucks and will serve some of the hospital’s most critically ill and medically complex patients.
Proceeds of $6,500 from the Ryan Wang piano recital, held in early March at the Vancouver Academy of Music, were donated to Richmond Hospital Foundation. Iris Wang, Ryan Wang’s mother, organized the event. The funds will help support the purchase of a fetal monitor at Richmond Hospital. •
