Discussion in town: BC The SPCA receives a hug of $ 600,000

WAG-WAG, PURR-PURR: Tracey Wade had a pleasant birthday surprise as she presided over her fourth annual Offleashed gala. The event would have raised $ 600,000 and a modification for the benefit of BC. SPCA programs for abused, neglected, injured and homeless animals. SPCA staff members also named Wade in his honor an 11-week Lab-Cross. He and other puppies and kittens were touched in the traditional gala salon, in which Tracey and her husband Brooke made their permanent pet Tibetan Mastiff-cross Guinness in 2017.

WISER YET: Tina Strehlke, CEO of the Minerva Foundation, recently presented the "Face of Leadership" luncheon. The resulting revenues will increase the $ 10 million already spent on leadership and exploration programs for women and girls. Strehlke and her guests welcomed Nancy McKinstry, former Chair of the ICBC Board of Directors and Vice President of Brokerage Services, who in 2001 led the creation of an organization named for the Roman goddess Minerva. According to McKinstry, the purpose was "to support women in British Columbia. in a category that was not covered by the social safety net … and bring it to the next level in education, leadership development, economics and security. Soprano Judith Forst sang at a launch event. Other donations raised $ 150,000, which went directly into an endowment fund worth $ 1.8 million. "We were able to run," McKinstry said. They never slowed down either.

TURKEY AND GANGWAYS: Anil Bora Inan has accomplished a great deal since being posted in 2014 as First Consul General of Turkey. While organizing the recent National Day celebrations, he said that 14 consular employees now serve in Western Canada and Turkey-BC. and trade between Turkey and Canada has more than doubled to $ 3.2 billion. Inan should soon be published elsewhere. He announced several cultural advances, including the fifth edition of the Vancouver Turkish Film Festival on November 2nd. The contributions of his wife, Semiha Abdullah Inan, are not mentioned. After graduating from Vancouver's Blanche Macdonald Center, the former banker-economist designed and crafted dresses, and so on. If she stayed here, she would probably create a commercial line.

FAME WITH BRUSH: It is hoped that painter Gordon Smith will attend a $ 500 tribute to the Robert H. Lee Alumni Center at the University of British Columbia on November 9th. This event will benefit the Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists. No young person himself, the centennial Smith will probably devote only part of that day to creating new canvases.

NEWS NIGHT: Nineteen years after the death of its namesake, the Jack Webster Foundation has recently awarded journalism awards in 12 categories of print, broadcast and digital media. More than a dozen reporters and photographers from the Sun and Province won the award individually and in teams, undoubtedly encouraging journalism students to wish the same for them. Donna Logan, a journalist, editor and multiplatform editor, was honored, most notably for being the founding director of the UBC Master of Journalism program. Originally hired by Logan, the current incumbent, Alfred Hermida, has amused himself to qualify as "the first school principal to be from Gibraltar". From rock to role, that's it. The Logan Award was named in honor of Bill Good, who, in his own way, on the radio, makes paid commercials for an "alternative" lender in the real estate market while airing an editorial commentary on the same chain.

An unobstructed view: guests wearing masks at the Audi Lougheed-Boundary Open Road dealership could have expected autonomous cars to be launched. Instead, only the revised Q8, A6, A7 and A8 models were unveiled. Reseller Christian Chia is wearing a full-face helmet to compete in the Shanghai Porsche Cup on November 16 and 17. In the meantime, he has two other local dealerships on hold and will soon move the 20,000 square foot Mercedes-Benz plant in Surrey to four times larger premises in Coquitlam. Despite the fact that there is a huge Ikea store next door, customers will not need to collect their purchases.

OLE MOLEY: Comedian Dan Aykroyd enthusiastically launched his Patron Tequila at Kitsilano's Las Margaritas Restaurant in Kitsilano in 2006. At Parq Vancouver's D6 bar on Nov. 6, four bartenders (out of 120 participants) will be launching their invention badtails in the hope to represent Canada Mexico City Tournament. Do not lick salt, do not express lime and do not swallow, let go!

WELCOME BACK: After 15 years in Ireland, Toronto, and Kenya, former city gallery owner Sarah Dobbs now runs Parker Projects at 1000 Parker Street. It occupies the exhibition room of sculptor David Robinson, whose workshop is located further down in the rabbit labyrinth, artist and craftsman. The opening Dobbs show included works by Robinson, David Ellingsen and Jay Senetchko. His late father, essayist Kildare Dobbs, was less inclined to sell works of art. In a British pub during the 1982 Falklands War in Great Britain and Argentina, he wore a Union Jacks emblazoned t-shirt, heraldic lions, unicorns and the message: Falk Of Argentina. A patriotic drinker finally offered £ 50, which was 20 times his purchase price in Toronto. Perhaps he is afraid of being bad in a lounge, the 59-year-old Dobbs has refused. His daughter may have fewer commercial bookings.

LOWER PARRYSCOPE: A BC Project The electoral alternative is as if the electors were ordering a meal at the restaurant but unknown kitchen employees are secretly preparing and serving another, even on the menu.

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