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A12 NewsLeader Wednesday, October 31, 2012A12 NewsLeader Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Wow.
As I write this, I’ve just finished putting the profiles of 25 amazing people on these pages.
They are a group of folks we’re calling NextUP, and are choosing to single out for special men-tion with this special feature today, and a fun cocktail event on Nov. 10 at Inn at the Quay.
NextUP puts a face on an interesting evolu-tion that’s happening in New Westminster. The Royal City has always been a wonderful place, steeped in history, tight-knit, with a small-town feel that we all love.
But in recent years it’s struggled with stagnancy, particularly Downtown, where we’ve seen ur-ban decay, economic doldrums and crime.
As we all know that’s changing, and with the re-vitalization the city is experiencing, a creative, vibrant energy is taking hold.
Capacity is building in New West as invest-ment, ideas and energy flow into this city.
The 25 people on these pages embody those qualities, and are playing a big role in what you might call this Royal Resurgence.
They are people the NewsLeader, in partnership with the networking group NEXT New West, has chosen for recognition because in their own way they are doing something special for the progress of this city, whether through their jobs or through the other contributions they make to the community. The emphasis, as you’ll see, is on younger and emerging folks. Some names you’ll be hearing the first time. But no doubt you’ll be hearing them again.
This list is by no means comprehensive. In fact, there may be names that pop into your mind as you read these pages that you think should be on the list. Good! That’s the great part. Next year we can do it again. There are a lot of people
doing fantastic things to contribute to New Westminster’s future, and they should all be applauded. If you’ve got suggestions, drop me a line ([email protected]). I’d love to hear from you.
For now, let’s celebrate the 25 NextUP honor-ees you’re reading about today.
I hope to see you on Nov. 10. It’s going to be an amazing night.
—Chris Bryan, Editor
Exciting times, amazing people
It’s happening in New Westminster. People and businesses like yours are the key to making New Westminster shine! It’s an honour to work alongside many of you.
Congrats to all the recipients of NextUP!
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 NewsLeader A13Wednesday, October 31, 2012 NewsLeader A13
Travis Johnson trapeze artist
Travis is co-owner of Vancouver Circus School, based at River Market. Having grown up in the world of circus and trampoline, he has never known a life without either. Travis started competitive trampoline at age 6, and went on to win the Western Canadian title a few times over. Following a near-fatal car accident, Travis and his father Aaron decided to develop the Vancouver Circus School. The school is an active contributor to the com-munity, donating classes to fundraisers, and performing in events such as the Pier Park opening, Hyack Festival, Sapperton Day, etc. Travis is currently in Thailand with a group of instructors volunteering their time to build an acrobatic and hip-hop school for orphaned and at-risk youth.
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BrianaTomkinson blogger extraordinaire
Briana is a digital marketing strategist with over 10 years experience in online and social media. She is a marketing consultant with Hyack Interactive, which she runs with her business partner Jen Arbo.
Briana is a co-founder of the annual neigh-bourhood festival Summerfest in Grimston Park, and the editor & publisher of Tenth to the Fraser, a blog about life in New West-minster. She lives in New Westminster’s West End with her husband Will and their two children.
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JJ Lee fashionable storyteller
JJ writes about menswear for The Vancouver Sun and his personal essays appear in ELLE Canada. This year he tied for the National Magazine Awards Gold for Best Short Fea-ture. His book, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, is current-ly shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize, the country’s richest prize for non-fiction. The book was also shortlisted for the 2011 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction. He is also an auxiliary member of Century House’s Seniors Ukulele Club. Find him online at www.jj-lee.com.
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Farhan LaLji Football’s pied piper
Farhan is head coach of the Hyacks foot-ball team at NWSS, and was responsible for re-launching the football program at the school. He has been coaching BC high school football for more than 20 years, and this season that just finished was his 10th as a head coach. This past April, he was named Provincial Scholastic Coach of the Year at the BC Lions Orange Helmet Awards. Following the 2004 season he was named runner up for the NFL/CFL National High School Coach of the Year. He is currently employed as a national reporter for TSN and CTV, which often has him covering the Canucks and Lions. Lalji, his wife Mary and son Lukas live in New Westminster.
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Mark Shieh Market Man
Mark is co-founder of Take Root, the devel-opment company leading the revitalization of River Market in New Westminster. Pas-sionately curious about people and places, he started out as a Disney Imagineer and indulged a childhood dream to be a Disney character. He has a bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and a master of science in Engi-neering Management from Stanford Univer-sity. He serves on the board of the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery and the New Westminster Economic Development Ad-visory Committee. At the River Market his company set out to create a new model for public market with a vision dubbed Food 360. The market is a finalist in the Real Estate Foundation of BC Land Awards.
PauL roMein passionate eye
Paul is the owner and CEO for Techno Mon-key Media Inc, a media production company which he founded in 2003. He is active in his community, currently serving on the board of directors for the Downtown New Westminster Business Improvement Asso-ciation, the board of executives for the BC Professional Videographers Association, and the board of directors for The Animal Show on Shaw TV, helping move pets from animal shelters into homes. Paul has produced thou-sands of hours of video content, and is a You-Tube partner with his videos exceeding 3.8 million views. He has devoted many hours to organizing and directing independent film projects over the years.
PaTrick johnSTone rabble rouser
Patrick is an environmental scientist by pro-fession, an environmentalist by conscience, and a volunteer by nature. He is past presi-dent of the New Westminster Environmental Partners, vice president of the BC Envi-ronmental Managers Association, a board member of the Royal City Curling Club, and serves on several civic committees in New West. He can often be found rabble-rousing on topics of local interest, from the future of the Pattullo Bridge to solid waste manage-ment in the city. Through his blog “New Westminster –in my back yard”, and a social media presence under the tag “NWimby,” he is rarely without an opinion on local, re-gional or global politics. He is also a terrible gardener, but trying really hard to improve.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 NewsLeader A15Wednesday, October 31, 2012 NewsLeader A15
Jonina campbell child’s play advocate
Jonina wears many hats—parent, school teacher, New West school trustee, and out-door play advocate—but her message is the same: a great city is one that constantly strengthens the capacity of its youth. As founder of Growing Up Urban (GUU) and the popular summer games night, GUU Nights, Jonina promotes opportunities for outdoor play, natural playscapes and healthy child development. As a trustee, Jonina champions the benefits of students walking, cycling and taking transit to school. Her ini-tiatives to promote safe and active travel have led to the school district developing a School Travel Planning Policy that will be one of the first school travel policies in B.C.
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peter saran makeover man
Peter is general manager of the River’s Reach pub, where he’s been for 10 years helping it to be recognized as one of B.C.’s top 20 pubs. He’s worked his way up in restaurants, hotels, bars and pubs, in kitchens and out front, for a time working in Banff/Lake Louise with Fairmont Hotels. He is a cancer survivor, di-agnosed in 2009 with kidney cancer. He also runs a consulting company, Peter Saran Inc., which helps troubled bars turn their fortunes around. He’s actively involved in the com-munity, helping fund the Salvation Army’s cold weather shelter, Christmas dinner, and clothes and toys. Other groups supported include Monarch Place, United Way, , Hyack football and Salmonbellies lacrosse.
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peter van garderen open-file pioneer
Peter is president and senior systems analyst at Artefactual Systems, an open-source software service provider that is spearheading the de-velopment of systems that manage the digital collections of hundreds of archives and libraries worldwide. He has served as a director of the McBride-Sapperton Residents’ Association since 2005 and volunteers with the Royal City Youth Soccer Club and the New Westminster Montessori Society. For his leadership in the open-source movement Peter has been recog-nized with a distinguished alumni award from UBC. Thirteen employees work out of Artefac-tual’s office in the historic Hart Block building on Columbia Street. He believes in New West and so does his staff—one just bought a condo on Carnarvon Street.
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Paul Minhas cultural hub host
Paul opened Heritage Grill on Columbia Street seven years ago, seeing potential for a live music venue in an area poorly served. His goal is to bring all genres of music and people together, and create a hub central to Metro Vancouver. Paul hosts everything from burlesque shows and drag shows to slam poetry and philosopher cafés. He launched a scholarship program for NWSS jazz band, and donates to the food bank, Camp Mumba (helping kids under age 16 af-fected by HIV/AIDS), the RCH foundation. Every year, the Grill hosts a free Christmas turkey dinner for the community. Paul says the changes in Downtown New West are in-credible. It’s about time, he says, and it’s great for the city, and the arts and culture commu-nity. Change is good as New West is thriving with local talent.
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sandon Fraser Youth sports advocate
Born and raised in New Westminster, San-don is currently the Youth Services Coordi-nator for the City of New Westminster. He programmed this summer’s outdoor movies series and is part of several city initiatives including the Westminster Pier Park project. Outside of work, Sandon was one of the founders and chair of New West KidSport—an organization committed to raising funds for kids in New Westminster to participate in organized sports. He believes in “tomor-row’s future” and is also closely involved with Easter Seals 24 Hour Relay which sends hun-dreds of kids with disabilities from around B.C. to summer camp each year.
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ruby CaMPbell capacitY builder
Ruby is volunteer coordinator with City of New Westminster parks, culture and recre-ation where she engages volunteers to build community capacity. Before joining the city, her fundraising company managed the New Westminster Youth Centre fundraising campaign, raising $230,000, assisted with the $16.6m infrastructure grant for West-minster Pier Park, prepared the federal and provincial funding grants to host the City’s Olympic Torch event, managed Fraser River Discovery Centre’s fundraising program, and provided fundraising and event management consultation services to numerous other or-ganizations. She developed the inaugural BC Lung Association’s Climb the Wall for Clean Air at the Wall Centre Hotel, and currently serves on the board of the New West Cham-ber of Commerce.
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Steve OSachOff future planner
Steve is an associate portfolio manager with Dominion Securities working with his father, Larry, and brother, Dan. Steve has a BA (Hons) from Queen’s University in Political Studies, and did summer studies at St. Petersburg State University, the GRINT Institute in Moscow, the Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg and Norwich University in Vermont. Outside work, Steve is a member of N.E.X.T. New Westminster, the Monsoon Society, and as a director on the Royal Co-lumbian Hospital Foundation board.
To maintain some balance between body and mind, Steve enjoys a wide range of pastimes but more than anything, he loves to travel with his wife Angie.
Stacy aShtOn volunteer connector
Stacy is executive director of Community Volunteer Connections, the volunteer centre for New West and the TriCities. The group puts on the annual New Westminster Festi-val of Volunteers, which brings together 45 local organizations and connects them to new volunteers. Stacy has a Masters in Coun-selling from SFU, and worked as a suicide intervention counsellor before moving into non-profit management. She is currently Vice President of Volunteer BC. Outside of her career, Stacy has been an animal shelter volunteer and board director for the Royal City Humane Society, and now as a board di-rector for NewWest.TV, pursuing the dream of starting community access television here in New Westminster.
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Guest speaker
Mark Brand is the guest speaker at the NextUP cocktail soirée on Saturday, Nov. 10 at Inn at the Quay, and has been a trail-blazer in Vancouver’s Gastown.
Brand, whose NextUP appearance is presented by Salient, has been in the restaurant business 25 years, starting at 12 in an East Vancouver pizza shop. He opened Boneta in 2007, and followed that with The Diamond, Sea Monster Sushi and, recently, Save-On-Meats. The latter resurrected a butcher shop that had been an institution on Hastings Street for more than 50 years before closing in 2008. His efforts were the subject of a documentary series on Oprah’s OWN network. He’s also branched out into clothing, with Sharks & Monsters, and art, with the Catalog Gallery.
Brand is a firm believer in the social re-sponsibility of his businesses, nourishing his community as well as the needs and desires of his customers.
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Catherine Ouellet-Martin fan of the fraser
Catherine is executive director of the Fraser River Discovery Centre, where they have aims to expand exhibits into the second floor next year. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in His-tory and a Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Public History from SFU in addition to having done archaeology and anthropology field studies in Europe. Catherine’s past experiences include work in historic sites, museums and archaeolog-ical sites along the shores of the Mighty Fraser.
Catherine sees the rejuvenation of the River Market and recent opening of the Westminster Pier Park along with burgeoning local develop-ments as only the beginning of a great adventure for New West. As Vice President of Tourism New Westminster, she is thrilled to be part of the excitement and help promote New West-minster and its waterfront as a prime destina-tion.
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JenniFer arbO community builder
Jen has more than a decade of experience as a project manager, and together with Briana Tomkinson, runs Hyack Interactive, a bou-tique marketing consultancy specializing in digital strategy. A graduate of Douglas Col-lege, she’s lived in New Westminster nearly 20 years. Jen joined the Royal City Farmers Market as its manager in its second year and helped shape it into the market it is. She is also a founding board member of NewWest.tv, where she also volunteers. She is also a contributing editor to Tenth to the Fraser, a blog about life in New Westminster. She lives near Hume Park with her husband Ross, four year old son Kale, two chickens, and a dog.
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JOnathan COté city dweller
Jonathan is in his third term on New West City Council. He has earned a reputation as an advocate for sustainability, affordability and liveability, and has encouraged council deliberations to be viewed through these lenses. He serves as chair of the parks and recreation, bicycle and pedestrian, and mas-ter transportation plan committees. Outside council, Jonathan is a grad student in the Urban Studies program at SFU, his studies focusing on transportation and housing. His commitment to building a sustainable urban environment extends to his personal life as well. His family lives in Downtown New West, where walking and public transporta-tion are their main forms of getting around.
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anDrew wOng groundbreaking gourmand
Andrew is owner of Wild Rice restaurant at the River Market. For years, he dreamed of creating a modern Chinese restaurant serving locally sourced food. His farm-to-table philosophy was passed down from his grandmother. His first Wild Rice restaurant opened ten years ago in Vancouver’s China-town, which was followed by a proliferation of new eateries in the area. Now in New West he’s breaking new ground again, and finally has his dream location on the water. He is a charter member of both the Ocean Wise and Green Table Society. As an advocate for B.C. he has developed a wine and beer list that focuses on our province.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 NewsLeader A19Wednesday, October 31, 2012 NewsLeader A19
Ray PoRcellato New-world baker
Ray was born and raised in the Royal City, graduating from NWSS in 1987. He played Jr. A and Sr. A Lacrosse for the Salmonbellies and as part of his commitment to giving back to the community, he is currently the as-sistant general manager of the Jr. A team. He spent over a decade in Downtown Vancouver as a stock trader and broker, before returning to New Westminster to begin Cloud 9, a con-fectionary manufacturer and wholesale com-pany. After rebranding Cloud 9 in 2011 and creating Cloud 9 gluten-free flour, he opened the first gluten-free bakery in New Westmin-ster on Royal Avenue. Along with looking after a growing business and coaching, Ray and his wife Carin are raising two children in the neighbourhood where he grew up.
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tej KaiNth City spark plug
Tej is executive director of Tourism New Westminster. She was born and raised here and has been a May Queen, Miss New West-minster deputy ambassador and student council president. She spearheaded the creation of NEXT New West, a network-ing group of young professionals, and is the founder of the Herman Dhillon Memorial Foundation, an organization that raises mon-ey and awards a bursary to athletes at NWSS. She loves to plan parties and raise money at the same time, such as the recent Haunted Halloween bash which supported KidSport New West. Her recent 30th birthday raised $3,000 for the RCH Foundation. She be-lieves in New West’s resurgence so much she recently purchased a condo in the Trapp + Holbrook development on Columbia Street.
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Melissa BalfouR Quirky eveNts orgaNizer
Melissa’s passion for putting together outsi-de-the-box parties led to the creation of her company Pretty Up Parties. A passionate foo-die Melissa celebrates New West’s growing vegan culture on her blog thehungrytaurus.com. The many events she has organized locally include a Vegan Culinary Bike Tour, a Sinfully Divine Dessert Night Pop Up Res-taurant, a Vegan Wine & Uncheese Event, a Seed Swap and Garden Planning Workshop, a Vegan Pop Up Picnic, “Un”cooking Kids Culinary Classes at River Market, and a lunch hour dance event at River Market called Lunch Beat. What’s her next event? James Bond Supper Club! She also runs a culinary meetup.com group at: http://www.meetup.com/New-West-Culinary-Events/.
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Blair Fryer The ciTy’s voice
Blair is communications manager for the City of New Westminster. With two decades of experience in strategic communications and public relations, he has worked on Parlia-ment Hill, and in Victoria as a senior advisor to a cabinet minister. In 1998, he launched a communications consultancy serving private and non-profit clients. In 2008, he was hired as the City of New Westminster’s first com-munications manager. He has since led the city’s re-branding efforts, guided the devel-opment of a new corporate website and re-cently spearheaded a social media push that has seen the city engage a new generation of citizens. He is also a founding member of NEXT New West.
Kendra Johnston downTown driver
Kendra is executive director of the Down-town New Westminster BIA, launched the Multicultural Festival almost a decade ago, and this year led the re-launch and re-branding of that festival and the Royal City Show & Shine. In the past she worked at the Royal City Star Riverboat Casino as market-ing and HR coordinator, then manager of food & beverage operations, and was part of the start-up team at Starlight Casino when it opened in 2007. As the face of the BIA, she has recently enjoyed working with others on projects such as the opening of Westminster Pier Park and the Downtown Mosaic Tile Project. She serves on the executive of Com-munity Volunteer Connections and Tourism New Westminster.
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Michael richardson design maven
Michael’s owns Redbrick, a funky home fur-nishings shop on Sixth Street. He is a design-er from the east coast who previously owned three home stores that had been featured in the pages of numerous publications includ-ing Canadian House and Home and Style At Home. Passionate not only for his new retail location at Sixth and Carnarvon, Michael is involved in his new community, serving as vice president for the Downtown BIA as well as other committees and community based organizations to help further the revitaliza-tion of his beloved new hometown.
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