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Metal Inc. and managing director of mining investment banking for Desjardins Securities.

Arvind Jain has been appointed to the board of Golden Hope Mines Ltd. He is vice-president of strategy and investments at Rio Tinto Alcan Inc.

David Forest has been appointed to the board of Sunward Resources Ltd. He co-founded the company and was previously COO. He is currently a principal of Notela Resource Advisors Ltd.

Norm Pitcher has been promoted to president and Paul Skayman to COO at Eldorado Gold Corp. Pitcher was previously COO and vice-president, exploration and corporate development, at the company. Skayman was previously senior vice-president, operations.

TechnologyPhilip Hodge has been appointed to the board of Westport Innovations Inc. He is president, CEO and director of Pine Cliff Energy Ltd. and was previously vice-president, business development and vice-president acquisitions and divestments, at Penn West Exploration.

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neW in ToWnJeremy Bell and Brendan George have partnered to form George & Bell Consulting, specializing in actuarial and investment advice for pension and benefit plans. The office is located at Suite 400, 601 West Broadway, Vancouver.

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Lions Gate Hospital Foundation’s 16th Annual Golf Classic raised $395,000 (net) towards the foundation’s $3m campaign to relocate, renovate and equip a dedicated new endoscopy unit at Lions Gate Hospital.

The Delta Agricultural Society donated $250,000 to Reach Child and Youth Development Society’s Building for Children Together capital campaign. The campaign goal is to raise $4 million to build a new child development centre in Ladner for Reach to provide more accessible, community-based programs and services to children and youth with special needs.

Scotiabank employees raised $86,000 as part of the Scotiabank Bright Future Program in support of the 2012 Scotiabank Bowl for Big Brothers Classic. Altogether, 56 branches and 495 employees joined the campaign to help Big Brothers reach its goal of supporting 1,051 at-risk children in 2012.

McQuarrie Hunter LLP donated $50,000 to Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation as part of the firm’s health and welfare program. Part of the donation will go towards

a new multipurpose interventional suite, which will provide an expansion of specialized services for the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, stroke and brain aneurysms.

ICBC employees raised more than $34,500 in the company’s annual Jeans Day fundraiser for BC Children’s Hospital.

Scotiabank donated $10,000 to Wendy Au, assistant city manager, City of Vancouver and recipient of the YWCA’s Connecting the Community Award, as part of the Scotiabank Bright Future Program. Au chose to direct the donation to the YWCA’s safe and affordable housing programs.

Swim Recruiting donated $1,845 to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) as part of its participation in the JDRF Walk.

William Rees, professor emeritus at the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning, and Rees’s former doctoral student Mathis Wackernagel won the Blue Planet Award for Sustainability, valued at nearly $645,000 CDN, at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The researchers developed the “ecological footprint” concept and were recognized for advancing the global conversation around human carrying capacity, ecological economics and environmental policy.

Purdy’s Chocolates and the Flavelle family received the Vancouver Family Enterprise of the Year Achievement Award for 2012 presented by the Vancouver chapter of the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise.

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, landscape architect, has received an honorary Doctorate of Technology from BCIT. She created the sustainable landscapes at the Robson Square and Law Courts Complex and the Vancouver Public Library.

Bob Sanghera and Doug Wallis, partners at Smythe Ratcliffe LLP, received awards from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC (ICABC). Sanghera received the ICABC Early Achievement Award,

while Wallis received the ICABC Community Service Award.

Shane Onufrechuk, senior adviser, Davis LLP, received the Ritchie McCloy Award from the the Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC.

Hemlock Printers was recognized at the Sappi Printer of the Year Awards, placing silver in the Sheetfed Magazine Category for Color Magazine’s 9.3 Collector’s Issue. •

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Mark Hannah, committee chair, Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) Foundation’s Golf Classic; Judy Savage, president, LGH Foundation; and Michael Hahn, division head of gastroenterology, LGH

Irene Forcier, chair, Reach Foundation; Peter Guichon, Delta Agricultural Society; Renie D’Aquila, executive director, Reach; Susie Galland, preschool co-ordinator, Reach; and students from Reach Developmental Preschool, South Delta

Amy Cox, account executive; Genevieve Miller, account executive; Jen Vuong, recruitment consultant; Bodil Geyer, founder; Simon Wood, founder; Shantas Wong, recruitment consultant; and Debra Lummas, account executive, Swim Recruiting