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JULY/AUGUST 2017 • UPDATE MAGAZINE
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convention 2017 postcards 1. BCNU President Gayle Duteil speaks to the media after delivering her opening address. 2. Convention delegates march through downtown Vancouver on May 17 to demand safe communities and safe worksites. 3. East Kootenay region's Sharon Rakebrand casts her ballot in the BCNU Nominations Committee election. 4. BCNU Simon Fraser region’s Lilibeth Colet, Lydia Agpalo and Deb Picco chat during a break from business. 5. BCNU Aboriginal Leadership Circle members welcome delegates to their booth. From left: Thompson North Okanagan region's June Shackley, North East region’s Leona Clark and Simon Fraser region’s Lisa Noel. 6. BCNU Thompson North Okanagan members Nannette Chenard and Evelena Wieler on convention floor. 7. Coastal Mountain region delegates get settled in. From left: Rose Tariga, Carol Nakano, Dan Desmarais and Jose Seva. 8. BCNU South Islands region member Ken Giles chats with Vancouver Island University nursing students Tanys Latham (l) and Serena Gaiga (r). Both students presented their community placement research project on climate change as a determinant of health during Monday’s education day. 9. BCNU North East region’s Jackie Nault sells 50-50 draw tickets to Pacific Rim region’s Rick Carlson. 10. BCNU South Fraser Valley region’s Engel Soliva receives information from BC Pension Corp’s Sandy Robilliardi. 11. Simon Fraser region’s Sherry Ridsdale speaks at the mic during a discussion on resolutions. 12. BCNU Servicing Coordinator Bella Brown stops to chat with Workers with Disablilities caucus chair Kelly Woywitka. 13. Pacific Rim region’s Holly Gale and North
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East region’s Shaun Whyman chat at the BCNU Men in Nursing booth. 14. Nurses take to the streets for the May 17 march to the Vancouver Art Gallery. 15. BCNU South Islands region delegates on convention floor: From left: Janice de Groot, Daphne Wass, Shelley Thompson and Robert D'Andrea. 16. Members of the BCNU Aboriginal Leadership Circle are joined by singer JB the First Lady who sang about the plight of missing and murdered Indigenous women and the resilience of the survivors of colonialism. 17. Say cheese! Hundreds of delegates dropped by the BCNU communications department selfie station to post their photos on the union's new Instagram account. 18. BCNU President Gayle Duteil and members of the union’s provincial executive committee lead delegates on a spirited march through downtown Vancouver on May 17. 19. BCNU Coastal Mountain region member Rajnish Ramdoyal (l) and Vancouver Metro region’s Eleen Leung (r) pay a visit to BCNU Young Nurses' Network chair Sarra Smeaton. 20. Convention hosts and South Fraser Valley co-chairs Jonathan Karmazinuk and Michelle Sordal present a cheque for $16,000 to Ishtar Transition House Society executive director Laurie Parsons. James Gould (r) of law firm Hamilton Howell Bain & Gould matched the funds raised by BCNU delegates. 21. BCNU Nominations Committee members Kevin Barry, Carol Rocker, Paul Terpstra and Michelle Nelson. Terpstra was the winner of a special election held May 17 to fill the vacant positon on the committee. 22. BCNU Men in Nursing Network members gather over lunch.
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