BIZ HIGHLIGHT
Tri-City News staff Manny Kang and Monica Ariken joined other business leaders on Tuesday for the second annual Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce Business Showcase, held at the Executive Plaza Hotel in Coquitlam.
BIZ OUTREACH
Coquitlam HVAC contractor Moore & Russell Heating gave a Lennox furnace — for free — to Kelle Fletcher of Langley as part of the HEAT UP British Columbia program, which started in 2010 in the U.S.
POCO BOOK
Emerging and professional artists and writers in Port Coquitlam launched a new children’s history book last Saturday with Mayor Greg Moore at Terry Fox Library. The book is called Sarah and Michael Explore Port Coquitlam.
WEED PULL
Volunteers with the Lower Mainland Green Team pulled English Ivy and blackberry bushes from Coquitlam’s Booth Creek ravine last Saturday. It’s back in the area on Sunday at 9:45 a.m.
BUGS AWARD
Coquitlam resident Gerhard Gries is this year’s recipient of the Entomological Society of Canada gold medal. Gries, a professor at SFU, won the prize for his outstanding contributions to entomology, according to a press release that also noted: “Dr. Gries has greatly expanded our knowledge of how insects communicate and how they perceive their environment. His findings have practical applications for improved management of bedbugs, mosquitoes, cockroaches and many other insect pests.”
BEEDIE SCHOLARSHIPS
Two Coquitlam students are among five SFU undergraduates in the Beedie School of Business to receive the inaugural Ryan Beedie Leadership Awards. The new scholarships, worth $20,000 each over four years, will be given to Kirsten Milic, a Dr. Charles Best secondary grad, and Musa Fortin, a Inquiry Hub secondary grad, to recognize their leadership while at high school. “Since making the gift to establish the Beedie School of Business in 2011 I have had the opportunity to get to know so many bright, ambitious students over the years,” Ryan Beedie said in a news release. “I am always so impressed with their accomplishments, and I want to do as much as I can to help more young people have the chance to get a university education and build a bright future. These new awards are designed to recognize leadership potential in students and will hopefully inspire youth to get involved in their communities.”
DOUGLAS ACTOR
Coquitlam actor Christian van Geyn is part of a Douglas College theatrical production next month. Van Geyn is featured in Concord Floral by the award-winning Canadian playwright Jordan Tannahill. Presented by the college’s departments of theatre and stagecraft & event technology, the show runs Nov. 3 to 10 at the New Westminster campus. “It’s incredible, current, tough to do, exciting and scary. We’re working really hard on a complex play with 10 actors on stage and two moving walls. So, everyone’s working hard to make the story,” director Kathleen Duborg said in a press release. For tickets and times, visit corncordfloral.brownpapertickets.com.