SILVER ART
Port Coquitlam Coun. Laura Dupont (left) presented certificates of arts excellence to Martin Sollanych, Christine Malone and Colin Craig in honour of Art Focus Artists Association’s 25th year.
NEONATAL $
Robin Wilson (middle) of the Sandra Schmirler Foundation recently gave $20,000 to Jennifer Atkinson of Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation and Neonatal Intensive Care unit manager Queenie Lai for infant warmers.
SOROPTIMIST HELP
Shirley Stewart, program chairperson for Soroptimist International of the Langleys, awarded $4,000 to Maura Fitzpatrick, fundraising manager of the Coquitlam-based Children of the Street Society, for its prevention workshops.
ALEXA TEAM
Seven Mounties with Coquitlam RCMP were named this week to the 2018 Alexa’s Team, nearly twice as many as last year. The team was thanked for their efforts to stop impaired drivers.
ONO RETIRES
Students, teachers and parents at Port Moody’s Moody middle school gave a standing ovation to teacher Jane Ono last Thursday as she closed the curtain to the theatrical show she directed. Ono announced at the end of Twinderella she would be retiring at the end of the school year.
OLYMPIC VISIT
Olympic hurdler Sarah Wells was in School District 43 this week to talk to students at Banting and Scott Creek middle schools as part of the Canadian Youth Speakers Bureau, which offers positive messaging to kids across the country. Wells finished 24th in the 400 m hurdles at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
WHIZ KIDS
Four students in School District 43 scored awards last weekend at the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair. More than 300 students from 10 school districts in Metro Vancouver showcased their projects between April 12 and 14 at UBC, which resulted in Heritage Woods secondary taking three awards: a bronze medal for Ishana Lodhia’s Strange Vibrations; a bronze for Christopher Halim’s Exo Elbow; and an honourable mention for Ah Jin “Angela” Yoo’s Blood Flood. Mike Roslikov from Inquiry Hub — in partnership with Hongyang “Ollie” Zhao from David Thompson secondary in Vancouver — also won an honourable mention; the two students met last May at the Canada Wide Science Fair in Regina.
BEST CLIENT
The Client of the Year Award was clinched by the city of Coquitlam last week at the 29th Annual Awards for Engineering Excellence Gala in Vancouver. The accolade was presented by the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies British Columbia (ACEC-BC), which noted in its press release, “the city of Coquitlam is setting an excellent example of valuing the professional services that consulting engineers provide via qualification-based selection.”
