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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Market toasts 20 growing years, kayakers paddle...
MARKET VALUE The Coquitlam Farmers Market started as a class project by a group of Simon Fraser University students. With goals of reconnecting local producers with urban consumers, and citizens with...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Record helping of Passion as foodies dish out for...
WITH PASSION The history of Passions dates back to 2002 when a small charity cooking class was held at Barbara-Jo McIntosh’s Books to Cooks. A year later the annual epicurean event was christened...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Woman of steel honoured by business school, Hope...
POWER TO PERFORM University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business recently staged its 13th Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year Awards with a grand affair at the storied Fairmont Empress Hotel...
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Fred Lee Social Network: Brilliant! runway party fashions record night, while...
MIND AND HEART After three years at the Commodore Ballroom, St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation severed ties with the venue and creator of Brilliant! — a unique event for mental health — moving the party to...
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Fred Lee Social Network: Cocktail party stirred by moms, kids living in...
CARE GIVER The Cause We Care Foundation was founded by Andrea Thomas Hill to assist local single mothers and their children in need. With her husband Brian Hill’s office in Gastown — he is the CEO of...
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Ryan Reynolds pays tribute to cancer victim on his birthday
Vancouver-born actor Ryan Reynolds penned an emotional online tribute to a Newfoundland-born cancer victim Sunday, honouring what would have been the boy’s 14th birthday. The Canadian movie star...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Mansion’s musical fundraiser comes up roses; Sole...
THORN BETWEEN ROSES Imagine charming tail-coated singers as hosts, serving epicurean delights paired with fine wines, serenading guests with exquisite choral music in the most magnificent mansion in...
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Bauhaus book a Halloween treasure trove
Bauhaus Undead: The Visual History and Legacy of Bauhaus is this Halloween’s must-have, limited-edition collector’s book. Curated by the celebrated early ’80s band’s drummer Kevin Haskins, the unique...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Waterkeeper Gala taps into record night of...
IN PRAISE OF WATER Canada’s foremost charity fundraiser for clean water drew 200 prominent artists, musicians and philanthropists to the Rosewood Hotel Georgia for the sophomore running of the...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Ripe sprouts funds for needy families, Growing...
MARKET VALUE Eight of Vancouver’s top chefs headlined Ripe 2016, the signature soiree of the Vancouver Farmers Market. Meeru Dhalwala of Viji’s Rangoli, Ned Bell of Chefs for Oceans, Quang Dang of West...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Parents continue to pay it forward after losing...
PARENTS UNWAVERING LOVE It has been 10 years since a young Dan Snook died, but he hasn’t been forgotten. Dan’s Legacy Dinner is named in his honour — founded by his father Kevin Snook and brothers...
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Stephen King ‘shutting down’ Twitter presence in wake of Trump win
Horror writer Stephen King appears to be quitting Twitter after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency. King had been open in his contempt for Trump in the leadup to the election. He slammed Trump in...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Beaming up stars for WE Day, splashing art reins...
Big Mentor Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland presented its sophomore Luminary Award Soirée at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver on Oct. 28. Some 500 business and community leaders gathered for the...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: A night of stars, miracles, umbrellas all boost...
RECORD NIGHT VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation’s annual Night of a Thousand Stars, presented by Telus, celebrates the outstanding philanthropy of donors who support the talented and dedicated health care...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Putting on the glitz to improve futures of...
CRYSTAL BALL RAISES RECORD $4.4M The B.C. Children’s Hospital Crystal Ball — one of the grande dames of the charitable circuit — as usual was an extravagant and glitzy affair. In celebration of its...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: LiveRight, Black Diamond, Visions make a trio of...
The LiveRight outcome It wasn’t until a week after Heather Eastman gave birth to son Owen that she looked through the hospital’s discharge package and found a “Poop Card”, a home screening tool for a...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: A season of supporting change for the better
Seeding change Author and educator Joe Kelly created the Project Change Foundation after embarking on a yearlong challenge to discover what really mattered to him. He found it wasn’t the consumer goods...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Food banks, Sally Ann and QMUNITY support
Food security CBC’s 30th annual Food Bank Day and Open House raised a record setting $780,000 for 99 food banks across B.C., the single largest campaign to feed the province’s less fortunate. A far cry...
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Fred Lee’s Social Network: Lights of Hope shine on St. Paul’s, healthy...
Shining Hope at St. Paul’s St. Paul’s Hospital’s Lights of Hope has been a seasonal fixture in Vancouver since 1998. Anyone living or working in the city’s downtown core will be familiar with the...
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Fred Lee Social Network: Celebrating courage, Canadian images, cultures
Courage on display The Courage to Come Back Awards are hosted annually by Coast Mental Health to celebrate British Columbians who have overcome tremendous adversity, illness or addiction to come back...
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