Back to the Future star Michael J. Fox (in black) returned to this Burnaby roots last month for the 9th annual Me-n-Ed’s Charity Golf for Parkinson’s. The event raised more than $25,000. The eatery has two Tri-City locations.
DONOR CHECK
Jack Gin (middle) was joined by doctors Ken Atkinson and Justin Cheung to view a new ScopeGuide, which was bought for the Royal Columbian Hospital with the help of a $20,000 donation from the Jack and Sylvia Gin Foundation.
ON THE LINKS
Royal Columbian Hospital staff, including anesthesiologist Dr. Feisal Mohamedali, joined 150 golfers and sponsors at the fourth annual Making the Cut Charity Golf Classic last Saturday. It swung in $40,000 for hospital surgical equipment.
FOR KIDS HEARING
Vince Mills, president of the Kinsmen Club of Coquitlam, handed over $2,250 last month to Eleanor Ryrie, director of annual and planned giving at Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation.
PUSH FOR A CURE
Kendal-Leah Skelton was on the swings at Moody middle school in Port Moody for seven hours and raised $2,000 for breast cancer research. Her Auntie Arielle was recently diagnosed with the disease.
GRANT TIME
Some $100,000 worth of grants, bursaries and scholarships were distributed to Tri-City groups and students last week at the Coquitlam Foundation annual awards night at Evergreen Cultural Centre.
YOUTH ART
A total of 36 students from CABE, CLC and Suwa’lkh schools took part in the Children of the Street Society annual youth art engagement project. Over nine weeks, the Tri-City students learned about how to prevent sexual exploitation and human trafficking with the Coquitlam-based group. “As always, the pieces created by the kids are very powerful,” the society’s executive director Diane Sowden said in a news release.
COLLEGE HONOUR
Douglas College, which has a campus in Coquitlam, this month named New Westminster Police Chief Dave Jones a 2016 honorary fellow. A criminology grad, Jones chairs the Coquitlam Field Sports Association. “I truly appreciate the recognition but I’m always reminded that there have been a lot of other great people I’ve worked with who have been invaluable in all of the projects or changes we’ve seen over the years,” he said.
TRUCKIN' ALONG
The BC Trucking Association has a new board of directors that includes a driver based out of Port Coquitlam. Kevin Clark, president of Valley West Transport Ltd., is a member of the BCTA board that was elected this month at an annual general meeting and management conference in Kelowna. The BCTA is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy group that represents the provincial motor carrier industry and more than 1,200 truck and motor coach fleets and 250 suppliers.
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