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Photo gallery
Photos from events are sorted by date and are in
reverse chronological order.
27-JUN-2008
 | From Left to Right: Howard Waldner, President & CEO, Vancouver
Island Health Authority; Minister Ida Chong, Minister of
Technology, Trade and Economic Development and Minister Responsible
for Asia-Pacific Initiative; Mayor Alan Lowe, City of Victoria;
Jean Whipp, Resident of Parry Place; Dean Fortin, Director of
Capital Region Housing Corporation; Jan Robertson, Beckley Farm
Lodge; Amy Jaarsma, Capital Region Housing Corporation
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06-JUN-2008
 | Allan McDonald, owner and President of Quesnel Seniors Society
Inc.; Carole Holmes, President and CEO, inSite Housing; tenant
Katherine Yorston; City of Quesnel councillor Mary Sjostrom; Fraser
Bell, Health Services, Northern Health; and John Rustad, MLA Prince
George - Omineca, cut the ribbon for the official opening of
Maeford Place, the first assisted living development for Quesnel.
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30-MAY-2008
 | Liberty Place - Howe Sound Rehabilitation Service Society's new 20
unit assisted living development for young adults with disabilities
in Burnaby. Liberty Place is the first assisted living development
for young disable adults in the Fraser Region.
From Left to Right: Elsa Dutton, Howe Sound Rehabilitation Service
Society; Colleen Hart, Executive Director of Geriatric &
Residential/Supported Living Services, Fraser Health Authority :
Mike Hopton, Howe Sound Rehabilitation Service Society
Dwayne Beutler, Resident of Liberty Place; MLA John Nuraney,
Burnaby - Willingdon; and Tonnar Brace, Board of Directors of Howe
Sound Rehabilitation Service Society.
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22-MAY-2008
 | From left to right: Jeanette Dagenais, Langley Lions Senior
Citizens Housing; Keith McBain, Director of Assisted Living, Fraser
Heath Authority; Mark Warawa, Member of Parliament for Langley; Lou
Wegleitner, Resident of Evergreen Timbers; Margaret McNeil, VP of
Operations, BC Housing; Peter Fasssbender, Mayor of the City of
Langley.
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21-MAY-2008
 | Official opening for Riverside Place in Vanderhoof, 14 units of
assisted living under ILBC - CanBC, 12 Seniors' Supportive Housing
program units (the first for the North) and six independent
subsidized seniors apartments. From left to right: Nechako Valley
Community Services Society President Brian Malchow; District of
Vanderhoof Mayor Len Fox; Northern Health Home and Community Care
Manager Loretta Jackson; Riverside Place resident Joan Ubleis; BC
Housing Senior Project Officer for the North Louise Elmes; resident
Katherine Teichroeb; Riverside Place Site Administrator Helen
Frederick and Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris.
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28-MAR-2008
 | Official opening of 89 units of assisted living under ILBC with the
Beulah Garden Homes Society.
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news release From left: Dr. Paul Pearce, Beulah
Gardens Homes Society; Linda Thomas, Vancouver Coastal Health;
Mayor Sam Sullivan, City of Vancouver; Wilma Martin, Cedars tenant;
Minister of Health George Abbott; and Dr. Nis Schmidt, Beulah
Gardens Homes Society
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17-MAR-2008
 | Official opening of four units of assisted living, the first for
Haida Gwaii, funded under ILBC CAN-BC with
the Queen Charlottes Heritage Housing Society.
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news release.
From left: Jolene Martin, Queen Charlotte Heritage Housing Society;
Village of Queen Charlotte Mayor Carol Kulesha; Shayne Ramsay, CEO,
BC Housing; residents Marj-Anne Cline and Jeanne Crist; Tom Siems,
CMHC; Debbie McMillan, Queen Charlottes Housing Development
Society; Andrew McLetchie, Northern Health.
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22-FEB-2008
 | Official opening of Icelandic Care Home’s Hofn
Society’s Icelandic Assisted Living Residence, 77
assisted living units funded under ILBC.
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news release.
From left: Norman Eyford, Vice President, Icelandic Assisted Living
Residence; Linda Thomas, Vancouver Coastal Health; Minister Wally
Oppal; resident Gary Thorsteinson; MP Ed Fast; Brian Bjarnason,
President, Icelandic Care Home Hofn Society; Mayor Sam Sullivan and
Heather Alda Ireland, Honorary Consul General for Iceland in B.C.
and Yukon.
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22-FEB-2008
 | Official opening of Retirement Concepts’ Langley
Seniors Village, 64 units of assisted living funded under ILBC.
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news release.
From left to right: Kathleen Nicholles, GM of Langley Seniors
Village; Minister Coleman; Joan Teekman, Langley Seniors Village
resident; Palbinder Shergill, Fraser Health Board Member; Mel
Kositsky, Deputy Mayor of Township of Langley; Azim Jamal,
President & CEO of Retirement Concepts.
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23-NOV-2007
 | Official opening of the Port Coquitlam Senior Citizens’
Housing Society’s Hawthorne Assisted Living, 70 units
of assisted living funded under ILBC. MLA John Nuraney officiated.
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the news release. From left to right: Jackie Angel, Director of
Hawthorne Assisted Living; Lenore Pickering, Executive Director,
Port Coquitlam Senior Citizens' Housing Society; Colleen Hart,
Geriatric and Residential/Supportive Living Services, Fraser
Health; MP James Moore; Resident Ruth Haluska; MLA John Nuraney;
City of Port Coquitlam Councillor Darrell Penner; and
Walter Van Drimmelen, Board Chair, Port Coquitlam Senior Citizens'
Housing Society.
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16-NOV-2007
 | Plaque presentation at the official opening of Good Samaritan Heron
Grove.
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the news release.
From left to right: Alan Dolman,
Board Chair, Interior Health; Minister Tom Christensen, MLA
Okanagan - Vernon; Mayor Wayne Lippert, City of Vernon; Colin
Mayes, MP Okanagan - Shuswap; with resident Marvin Briekreitz in
front.
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09-OCT-2007
 | Official opening of Finale, seven units of assisted living for
persons with disabilities funded under ILBC, as part of Accessible
Communities Day. Minister Wally Oppal officiated.
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the news release. From left to right: Minister Wally Oppal;
City of Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan; Vancouver Coastal Health CEO
Ida Goodreau; Vancouver Resource Society Executive Director Ken
Fraser; Vancity Enterprises CEO Jim Cox; and Real Estate Foundation
of BC Executive Director Tim Pringle.
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22-SEP-2007
 | Official Opening of Blue Heron Villa in Lake Country - Plaque
Presentation - From left to right: Randall Rose, President, Lake
Country Senior Housing Society; Alan Dolman, Board Chair, Interior
Health; Al Horning, MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country; Helen Hein, Blue
Heron Villa tenant; Mayor James Baker, District of Lake Country;
and Ron Cannan, MP for Kelowna-Lake Country.
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21-SEP-2007
 | Official opening of Austin Harris, a $15.5-million facility with
50 assisted living units funded under ILBC.
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the news release. From left to right: Fiona Yu,
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. volunteer; Kelly Yip, Donor; Peter Webb, Concord
Pacific Group; Nina Grewal, MP Fleetwood-Port Kells; Bill McNulty,
Acting Mayor, City of Richmond; Irene Fountain, S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
Austin Harris Residence resident; Carole Gillam, Director, Richmond
Community Care Network, Vancouver Coastal Health; Phyllis Kwong,
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Austin Harris Residence resident; John Yap, MLA
Richmond-Steveston; Kenneth Tung, Chair of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and the
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Multi-Level Care Society.
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14-SEP-2007
 | Dignitaries gather for the plaque presentation during the official
opening of Heritage Manor II.
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the news release. From left to right: Minister
Richard Neufeld, MLA Peace River North; Jay Hill, MP Prince George
- Peace River; Dr. Gentles, Board, Northern Health; Dale Bumstead,
Board, Northen Health; Dorothy Babcock, Heritage Manor I resident;
Councillor Larry Evans, City of Fort St. John; and Henry Schuler,
Heritage Manor II resident, in front.
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07-SEP-2007
 | Official opening of Garden View Village, thirteen units are
rent-subsidized, assisted living suites funded under the
Independent Living BC program. From left to right: Marg St. Denis,
Garden View Village tenant; and Bill Bennett, MLA, East Kootenay.
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06-SEP-2007
 | Dignitaries gather for the official ribbon cutting ceremony
during the opening of Marrion Village, a new seniors' housing
development in Oak Bay.
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the news release and backgrounder. From left to
right: Charlie Nishi, Chair of the Board of Directors, Baptist
Housing Society; Dr. Richard Crow, Executive Medical Director of
Continuing Health Services, Vancouver Island Health Authority;
Allison Volk, Marrion Village Tenant; Honourable Ida Chong, MLA Oak
Bay-Gordon Head and Minister of Community Services and Minister
Responsible for Seniors’ and Women’s
Issues; Frank Carson, Acting Mayor, Municipality of Oak Bay; and
Howard Johnson, CEO, Baptist Housing Society.
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26-JUL-2007
 | Official opening of the Stó:lō Nation
Society’s Stó:lō Elders Lodge, 15
units of assisted living funded under ILBC.
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the news release and backgrounder. From left to
right: Elizabeth Point, Stó:lō Nation
Society; Deputy Mayor Chuck Stam, City of Chilliwack; Helen
Carkner, Fraser Health; Chief Joe Hall; MLA John Les; and Roger
Andrews, Stó:lō Elder.
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