Excellence awards
The West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce President's Dinner and Business Excellence Awards will take place April 23 at Hollyburn Country Club.
Award categories include Business Person of the Year, Citizen of the Year, Best Big Business of the Year, Best Small Business of the Year, Best New Business of the Year, Best Medium Business of the Year and Young Entrepreneur. There are three finalists in each category. Winners will be chosen by judges, consisting of community leaders and past award winners. Tickets are available at westvanchamber.com.
Optometrist honoured
North Shore resident Dr. Antoinette Dumalo is the recipient of the B.C. Doctors of Optometry 2015 President's Award. Dumalo has served patients on the North Shore for 32 years. In addition to being president of the B.C. Association of Optometrists for two years, she also worked on the association council and the board as it transitioned to a voluntary society and chaired the task force that generated the association's new bylaws.
Following her presidency, she continued to serve on the continuing education committee and as a mentor to young optometrists.
Dumalo currently sits on the board of the B.C./Yukon CNIB and is chair of the government relations committee.
New director named
COWI Marine North America has named Shashi Shrivastava as its new director, international practice.
Shrivastava, who will be working out of the Canadian headquarters office in North Vancouver, is a marine structural engineer with more than 35 years of experience in the planning, design and construction management of marine terminals. As director, international practice he will oversee the development of business in the marine market across North America and pursue projects internationally.
Compiled by Christine Lyon
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