ELKS HELP
Burnaby Elk Reg Seguin visited the Children of the Street Society last month to present $1,000 for prevention workshops in Burnaby schools. So far, the group has given $3,000 to the Coquitlam charity.
I DO!
An emergency room at Eagle Ridge Hospital was the scene of a wedding over the Labour Day weekend when Levente and Annamdria tied the knot before his father, Romeo, a pastor, who was being treated at the Port Moody hospital.
COATS FOR KIDS
Coquitlam Knights of Columbus councils delivered more than 400 coats to a Syrian refuge family, Eva’s House Domestic Abuse Shelter, Talitha Koum and St. Vincent De Paul Society last month for the Coats for Kids program.
PEER HONOUR
Port Coquitlam native and Anmore resident Gary Mauris (centre) was inducted into the Canadian Mortgage Hall of Fame last month for co-founding the Dominion Lending Centres.
GO ORANGE
The lights around Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam city halls are lit orange last month to support a United Nations program called Orange the World to stop violence against women. The Grandmothers Advocacy Network made the request for the global cause.
NEW MURALS
Port Moody artist Rose Kapp will see two of her murals in the new Teck Acute Centre at BC Children’s Hospital. Kapp was one of 100 artists across Canada chosen to be part of the Children’s Healing Experience Project.
DYNAMIC FIRM
Port Coquitlam’s Dynamic Attractions was awarded Best New Product Concept by the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions in Florida last month. The award was for the company’s new Dynamic Motion Theater, designed to give audiences a wild ride in an immersive experience. “The Dynamic Motion Theater put a whole new spin on an immersive attraction,” said Guy Nelson (right), CEO of Empire Industries and President of Dynamic Attractions, in a release. “We’ve pioneered new technology to create an experience that has been, until now, impossible.”
GREEN MACHINE
A Port Coquitlam technology company is now one of the country’s first carbon-positive businesses. Finger Food was given the status, which is beyond carbon neutral and includes offsetting their more than 100 employees’ household emissions. “We are advocates for positive social and environmental change,” said CEO Ryan Peterson in a press release. “We believe businesses should be a force for good.”
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