A New Medical & Surgical Centre for Lions Gate Hospital
You Can Help Make It Happen The LGH Medical & Surgical Centre is the most transformative capital project in the history of Lions Gate Hospital Foundation. The Foundation has pledged $100 million to build the centre, which will bring leading-edge technology, patient-centric design, and an enhanced restorative environment. With a gift in your Will, you can help meet future health care needs for your family and your community.
The new Centre will bring innovations in clinical and therapeutic care to the North Shore.
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• coordinate legal aid with other aspects of the justice system and community services; and
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• be flexible and innovative in carrying out its mandate. The funds we provide to Legal Services Society are used in a variety of ways as the LSS Board and management work to meet the mandate set out in their Act. The funds are used separately from funds provided to the Government, in creative ways to fund worthwhile legal projects through BC. A few years ago, we combined funding and resources with the Law Foundation of BC and Legal Services Society to create a Legal Research Fund that focuses on funding for groups that will provide research for access to Justice. Recently our joint fund provided three grants to support groups that provide support for Aboriginal Child Protection research and program development. We also recently supplied funds for a project to document the Experience of First Nations Courts in BC. I am pleased to announce we have recently provided funds for a bursary at Douglas College that will have as its focus funding for First Nation students. The bursary will be known as the Wayne Strandlund Fund. Wayne was a longtime and very valuable member of our Board of Governors. When his final term was up, he generously provided The Notary Foundation with some seed money for a First Nations initiative. What will the next 30 years bring? The Notary Foundation plans to be a funder and leader in the field of access to justice. The members of The Society of Notaries Public of BC are ready, willing, and able to be active participants in solutions for those with unresolved legal needs. s The Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia
Happy Birthday to Us All! Canada is 150.
25 years
The Scrivener is 25! Putting this magazine together for you is a real pleasure, thanks to our exceptional team: CEO Wayne Braid, graphic artist Marilyn, many talented writers, photographer Gary, and admin-wiz Amber. Our readers include BC Notaries and thousands of allied professionals with whom BC Notaries do business on a regular basis. Our mandate is education . . . with something for everyone in each issue!
We look forward to communicating with you quarterly for many more years! s
Why We Say “BC Notaries” A BC Notary Public can provide significantly more legal services than Notaries in other provinces, Québec excepted. Please see page 27 for a list of the ways a BC Notary can assist you.
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• consider the perspectives of both justice-system-services providers and the general public;
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