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Index 5...................................................... President’s Message 5....................................... Executive Director’s Message 6.............................................................Anvil: forging a Downtown hub of commerce

7....................................Film activity brings big benefits 9............................................... Why to invest New West 11 ................New West’s booming business community 12 ...........................................Businesses building buzz 18 ................................... City as education destination 19 ......................................Development in the billions 22 .................................. The business of philanthropy 24 ............................................... Making movie magic 26 .......................... Networking opportunities abound 28 ................................................ Membership listings

Doing Business in New Westminster is an annual publication of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the New Westminster NewsLeader and a vital membership communication item, and business attraction and retention resource.

With over 1,000 copies printed, our distribution includes all New Westminster Chamber of Commerce members, business associates, community partners, Consul Generals, all Lower Mainland MLAs, MPs and cabinet ministers, and we will use it as a response to all outside investment requests. The New Westminster Chamber of Commerce is a catalyst for business people to work together to create a strong and vibrant economy, and enhance the quality of life in our community. The Chamber reduces barriers to business, opens new markets for business, provides a cohesive business network and provides programs and services which have a positive impact on your bottom line.

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Doing Business in New Westminster President’s Message In your hands you hold the first annual Doing Business in New Westminster magazine. It’s a testament, confirming what businesses and current investors already know—that New Westminster is vibrant, growing and open for business. These pages give you a glimpse into our business community and showcase development, growing sectors and local businesses.

Our Chamber members create jobs and promote a healthy economy. When you need goods or services, look first to your fellow Chamber members. By buying local and supporting the Chamber you add your voice to ours and help make all that we do possible.

For 130 years the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce has been committed to our business community and we look forward to another 130 years.

The New Westminster Chamber of Commerce is a catalyst for business people to work together to create a strong and vibrant economy, and enhance the quality of life in our community. The Chamber reduces barriers to business, opens new markets for business, provides a cohesive business network and provides programs and services which have a positive impact on your bottom line.

From the Executive Director Welcome to the first edition of Doing Business in New Westminster.

The New Westminster Chamber of Commerce represents the hundreds of voices of business owners, employees and volunteers who are collectively working towards a better future for our region. We are many voices working together and achieving what one voice alone cannot. Our role as a Chamber is to assist in the creation of an environment that will lead to increased growth in economic activity—a vibrant private sector, investment attraction, job creation and greater competitiveness.

Thank you to all of the businesses who have supported us in the development of this magazine. We are not a government organization but a business assocation that exists to represent our business community. Thank you to our members and please take a moment to visit our member listing in this magazine.

—Cori Lynn Germiquet, Executive Director New Westminster Chamber of Commerce

— Christine Conway, President 2013/14 New Westminster Chamber of Commerce

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Anvil Centre Creating a new hub for commerce at the gateway to Downtown

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uch like the blacksmith’s iron block for which it’s named, New Westminster’s Anvil Centre will become a key implement for the city’s economic growth.

Currently under construction at Columbia and Eighth streets, the $50 million building will be more than just concrete walls and glass windows. It will be a meeting place for business and the arts, an economic and cultural hub.

“Just as the anvil reflects the energy that is put into it, the name and logo also symbolizes the energy that will emerge from the countless functions, events and activities that Anvil Centre will be home to for generations to come,” said New Westminster’s arts and culture director Greg Magirescu when the facility’s name was announced last November.

The Anvil Centre’s four stories will be occupied by conference and meeting facilities capable of hosting receptions for up to 500 guests, a 350-seat theatre that can be arranged for any number of uses, multi-purpose rooms and arts studios, an art gallery and gift shop, the city’s museum and archives, the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame, a visitor’s information desk as well as a restaurant and retail space.

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The complex will be topped by a nine story tower with 137,000 square feet of first class office space.

The tower is being constructed to LEED Gold standards, with a secure underground parking space for every 600 square feet of floor space, plus bicycle storage along with lockers and showers. Some floors will have access to outdoor patios.

A study for the city by G.P. Rollo and Associates says the facility will create 156 full-time jobs during construction, another 525 in the offices when they’re finished, 25-33 in the restaurant and retail component and more than 200 spinoff jobs.

Workers in the building and visitors to it will spend millions of dollars a year and, say the consultants, the facility may spur an increase in residential, commercial and recreational development in New Westminster’s Downtown.

It will, says Mayor Wayne Wright, bring “new people and business and (continue) the progress made through the city over the past decade.

We’ve made great strides forward, revitalizing our community at the centre of Metro Vancouver and putting New Westminster on a solid foundation for a bright future.”

Lights, camera, action!

Local productions plough millions into economy

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ilming in New Westminster is a vibrant industry that showcases our wonderful streetscapes and attractions while significantly contributing to our local economy.

Production of several television series and motion pictures have taken place in New Westminster in recent years including: Alcatraz, The Killing, Supernatural, Once Upon a Time, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and many more.

Filming in New Westminster has tremendous local economic benefits.

According to the BC Film Commission, it is estimated that $8.7 million in film salaries were paid to residents in 2011 with additional benefits of location fees that production companies pay to residents, merchants and the city. Film permit fees also generate substantial revenue annually for the City of New Westminster.

New Westminster has its doors wide open to the film business!

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The city at the heart of it all As the Fraser Valley grows, New West’s central location is increasingly paying dividends New Westminster is the geographic centre of the Lower Mainland.

Increasingly, it’s also becoming an economic hub.

According to a report prepared by Urban Futures, the New Westminster-centred trade area, which stretches north of the Fraser River from Burnaby to Port Coquitlam, is growing at a faster rate than the rest of the region. By 2041 the area’s population is projected to grow by 62%, compared to 52% for the region as a whole. That’s another 327,000 people, who will need places to live, schools to attend and jobs.

In 2011 there were 204,015 residential units in the New West trade area, 12% more than 2006. That outpaces the 9% growth in region-wide. By 2041, the housing stock is expected to increase 76% with the addition of 156,900 units. More than half will be apartments or condos. To pay for those living spaces, the trade area’s employment base will grow to 433,600 jobs from 271,500. Most jobs will be in service-based industries like finance and real estate as well as health and education.

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With two major post-secondary schools, Douglas College and the Justice Institute, the region’s largest hospital and growing medical services facilities in Sapperton’s Brewery District, New West has a competitive advantage to benefit from all that growth. Already the city has a higher share of health-care workers than any community in the region other than White Rock. Same with education, which comprises 8.9% of the city’s employment compared to 7.7% in the rest of the region.

Even manufacturing jobs are 1.2% ahead of the rest of the Lower Mainland.

There are opportunities as well in the professional services sector, where the city’s share of employment is three per cent less than in the rest of the Lower Mainland, and retail and wholesale trade, which lags by 2%.

Perhaps the city’s biggest competitive trump card is its accessibility to the rest of the region. With five SkyTrain stations on two lines, and a link to the Evergreen Line, when it’s built, only a stop away, New Westminster’s transit connection to the rest of the Lower Mainland is unmatched. Even getting around by car can be relatively painless with reasonable travel time by car to almost every corner of the region.

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Westminster Station adding 200,000 square feet of new retail (Safeway, Shoppers Drug Mart, CIBC, RBC, 10-screen Landmark Theatres) to the City or the Brewery District in Sapperton with the newly opened Thrifty Foods and TD Canada Trust. These new businesses, combined with vibrant businesses already here, deliver the services and amenities people are seeking and help enhance the quality of life for residents.

Business growth up 97.7% in 5 years Business Growth in New Westminster almost 97.7 % in 5 Years Recently released Census data has revealed that the Royal City is one of Metro Vancouver’s fastest growing municipalities, with a 12.7% increase in population since 2006.

The numbers mean good things for our local economy.

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More people means more demand; more demand Total open businesses means more spending on goods and services which leads to new businesses being established while current ones grow to the meet increased needs.

You don’t have look far to see the evidence of this growth with the recently opened Plaza @ Westminster Station adding 200,000 square feet of new retail (Safeway, Shoppers Drug Mart, CIBC, RBC, 10-screen Landmark Theatres) to the city or the Brewery District in Sapperton

with the newly opened Thrifty Foods and TD Canada Trust.

These new businesses, combined with vibrant businesses already here, deliver the services and amenities people are seeking and help enhance the quality of life for residents.

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Jenn Pistone and her daUghters emma nash and JUlia dewhUrst

Building the BUZZ Local businesses using social media to expand their reach

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enn Pistone knows exactly how many customers like her store.

She also knows what they like, and when they dislike something, she frets to figure out why.

Pistone, who runs Brick & Mortar Living with her daughters Julia Dewhurst and Emma Nash, gets all this information in real time from her shop’s Facebook account.

The decor and gift boutique located in the old Arundel Mansions on Begbie Street is one of a growing number of New Westminster businesses that are using social media to build buzz, inform customers and create a community.

For the ladies of Brick & Mortar, social media didn’t start out as a business strategy. Posting messages on their Facebook page and Twitter account was simply a way to keep friends and family updated about their new venture. But as their friends and followers started telling their friends and followers, Pistone says she realized the medium’s potential.

“We realized it would be our strategy to promote content,” says Pistone.

But to truly forge a connection with customers and potential customers, they couldn’t just throw up notices about specials, or the latest arrival on their shelves.

“You have to stay focused,” says Pistone. “You have to have a direction otherwise you’re just adding to the noise that everybody else does.”

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They expanded their social media reach to Instagram and Pinterest because each has a slightly different audience. They keep their posts to each light and fun, accompanied by creative photography. They make it personal.

“You have to be authentic,” says Pistone. “We are people people, we didn’t want to be a store for people to just shop. We want people to feel they know us.”

Lauren Bowler used Twitter to help people get to know her tea shop.

When she first opened Great Wall Tea in the River Market, she was the only tenant in the food hall that was still undergoing renovation.

So Bowler took to Twitter to get customers to venture beyond the back door at Donald’s Market, then the only way to access the central part of the market.

She posted informative tidbits about some of the exotic teas and blends she offers and conducted a daily giveaway of a free tea for people with a certain first name. It was cheap marketing, and it worked.

“When you have almost no budget to advertise, social media is imperative,” says Bowler. “It really is the only way to get your message out to thousands of people for a very low cost.”

Dan Close also used Twitter and Facebook to pique people’s curiosity as he prepared to open his Belgian frites and beer restaurant, Spud Shack.

What started as coy messages and photos hinting at what was being built behind the covered windows of his establishment on the third level of the Shops at New Westminster Station morphed into messages about the dishes he was creating and the craft and imported beers he was sampling to feature on his menu.

“Social media is our biggest marketing tool,” says Close, who recently used Twitter to get the vote out to win Vancouver’s 2nd Poutine Challenge, a competition amongst 21 restaurants put on by foodie blog VancouverFoodster.com. “Social media to us is like breathing. I am always on my phone reading tweets and responding whenever possible.”

Pistone says building buzz with social media takes constant attention to de-

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tail, including regular reviews of the analytics to learn what resonates with their friends and followers and what might have fallen flat.

“You can’t go into it half-heartedly,” says Pistone, who estimates one of their trio is in the back of the shop working the keyboard about 30 % of the time.

“There has to be consistency from the very beginning.”

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New West an ‘education destination’ And Douglas College is playing a key role

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ritish Columbia needs a more highly educated population to remain competitive, and New West is perfectly positioned to reap the benefits, says Scott McAlpine, the president of Douglas College.

“Post secondary education is the great leveler in society,” says McAlpine, who’s embarked on an ambitious mission to make Douglas the largest degree-granting college in B.C. by 2015. He’s doing that by creating new degree, diploma and certificate programs towards boosting the school’s full-time equivalent enrollments to 9,500 students.

“We’ve looked at what the demand is, what the students want and what the labour market needs,” says McAlpine. “If you’re sensitive to what customers want, they’ll come.”

Sixty percent of Douglas’ current students attend classes at the New West campus, many of them traveling from neighbouring communities like Coquitlam, Burnaby and Vancouver, as well as internationally

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from countries like Korea, Japan and India. And they’re leaving money in the community.

With an annual operating budget of more than $97 million, the regional economic impact of Douglas College is around $225 million, says McAlpine.

Students living at home spend about $39 million a year, while those living away from home spend $54 million. The school’s 1,100 international students spend about $29,500 each.

Factor in the 34,000 students who take courses annually at the Justice Institute, for which its New Westminster campus is the main hub for six other campuses across the province, as well as the hundreds of students who attend programs at the Boucher Institute for Naturopathic Medicine, the West Coast College of Massage Therapy and other private institutions, and the potential benefit to the city’s economy is tremendous.

“New Westminster is an education destination,” says McAlpine.

Development projects in the city It’s a time of much growth in New West École QayQayt

Some of the projects either in construction, or in various stages of planning and approvals in New Westminster:

School District Westminster

North Fraser Perimeter Road, New Westminster Section

British Columbia Investment Management Corp./ City Development

TransLink Project to provide improved trucking and vehicle route.

Proposed 400,000 sq ft office building located on Braid Street

New Westminster Civic Centre

Dominium Condominium

Development of a 7-storey lowrise condominium located on 6th Street and Royal Avenue.

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Replacement elementary school with 380-student capacity on a new site (St. Mary’s).

Braid Street Office Building

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City of New Westminster New 50,000 sq ft to 70,000 sq ft civic centre facility, at RENDERiNg OF BuilT-OuT BREWERy DiSTRiCT Columbia Street and Eighth Street, will include a 350-seat theatre and conference space. Merchant Square, 170,000 sq ft of office space will occupy space above the civic centre.

Parkside Highrise Condominium Onni Developments Proposed 226-unit condominium in a 22-storey tower and 22 townhomes.

Royal Columbian Hospital Expansion Fraser Health

New Westminster Secondary School School District 40 (New Westminster) Proposed new secondary school to replace the 1800-student capacity school, to be built with the design-build method on the existing New Westminster secondary school site.

Waterfront Development Complex

Proposed expansion is in early planning stages and is expected to include renovations, a new surgical suite, additional beds and an expanded emergency department.

Proposed five-tower and townhouse complex on the 600 to 700 block of Front Street totalling 900,000 sq ft

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Bentall Kennedy LP Proposed 38-acre development near Braid SkyTrain station. Project will include two 39,000 sq ft office buildings and a residential component. Public consultations and rezoning are required.

Trapp Block Condominium The Salient Group 165 unit highrise condominium project located at 668 Columbia Street Pattullo Bridge Replacement TransLink Proposed plan for a six-lane bridge replacement for the Pattullo Bridge.

Larco Investments Ltd.

Tridecca Developments Development to include 75 live-work, suites in 16-storeys, located on 6th Street and 3rd Avenue.

Northbank Highrise Condominium Ballenas Project Management Development of a 109-unit condominium in a 21-storey highrise and townhomes at 125 Columbia Street.

Burnaby to New Westminster Transmission Project BC Hydro Adding a new 60kV underground transmission circuit and upgrading the New Westminster Substation.

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EightWest Residential Development

The Brewery District Development (formerly Village at Historic Sapperton)

Wanson Developments Ltd. Construction is underway on a 160-unit lowrise residential development.

WesGroup Income Properties Re-development for the Labatt’s site with 500-750 residential units, retail and commercial space that will also include health services and live-work units.

Viceroy Condos Bosa Development Inc/Bluesky Properties 26-storey development of a 168-unit tower on 5th Avenue and 6th Street.

Queensborough Business Park

Victoria Hill Community ONNI Developments REnDERing of PlannED ToWER aT PoRT Royal

Beedie Group 40 acre business park located on Gifford St., north of Highway 91A, near the Queensborough and Alex Fraser bridges.

Residential Towers at Plaza 88

A planned community on approx 65 acres. The development will contain 1,270 residential units and 280 senior residences on McBride Blvd and Carnarvon St. Port Royal Planned Community Aragon Development Corp.

Degelder Construction Ltd Project features three residential towers and a fourth tower to be added later. The Plaza will be integrated with the New Westminster Sky Train station at Carnarvon and Columbia Streets. The towers will provide 600 condos from the tenth floor up with each of the ninth floors containing amenities.

Planned village for 2,500 residents on the eastern section of Lulu Island on a 65 acre parcel which was formerly the site of a sawmill, box plant and foundry.

Source: Province of BC Major Projects Inventory September 2012

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CONGRATULATIONS

NEW WESTMINSTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR 130 SUCCESSFUL YEARS!

Proudly Serving Our Community Peter Julian, MP

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Local philanthropy is good business Why giving to Royal Columbian Hospital counts

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ences, trauma, neonatal intensive care and high risk maternity.

ollaboration between charity and business has always been a win-win relationship. “Doing good has distinct business advantages such as building better community and stakeholder relations” says Adrienne Bakker, President and CEO for Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation (RCHF). “Hospitals are important to all of us because after all, if you don’t have your health, what do you have?”

Situated in New Westminster, Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) serves as both a powerhouse provincial hospital and as a hospital for the local community. At the heart of Fraser Health’s regional network of 12 acute care hospitals, RCH is also a provincially designated center for cardiac and neurosci-

RCH is the biggest employer in New West with 750 physicians, 4,500 staff and 325 volunteers revolving through its doors. This does not include the 30,000 patient admissions and patients’ friends and families that visit annually.

Charitable giving is great way to raise a business profile and support a charity that has a direct impact on you and people you care about. People are more likely to support a business they feel is giving back.

Also, it boosts a company’s morale to engage employees in fundraising activities.

• 200,000 sq. ft. of retail space integrated within the New Westminster SkyTrain Station and Bus Terminal • Adjacent to the station are three condo towers (and a fourth to come) with over 1,000 residential units • Situated in an up and coming area that’s transitioning into a hip, happening neighbourhood • Join Shoppers Drug Mart, Safeway, Tim Hortons, Starbucks and Landmark Cinemas

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Director of Leasing • Direct 604.242.9045 perri.zimmerman@firstcapitalrealty.ca

Companies find creative ways to fundraise From a marketing and business strategy, it is an opportunity to reach out and connect with the Royal Columbian and New Westminster community.

There are many ways to raise funds.

For example, the New Westminster-based freight transport company Southern Railway of British Columbia (SRY) has taken an innovative approach to fundraising by promoting injury prevention amongst its employees and directly tying its safety performance to donations to RCHF. Money saved as a result of no lost time injuries (injuries requiring employee time off for treatment or rehabilitation) is matched by the company and donated to RCHF. The Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation is grateful for the continued support it receives from the New Westminster community.

Local third party events include Sapperton Day and Santa Shops Sapperton.

Local companies such as Greens and Beans, Cadeaux and River Market continue to give gifts-inkind and donations. Corporate donors and sponsors include Wesgroup, Thrifty Foods, RBC, Salient, TD Bank, Onni Group, McQuarrie Hunter, Fraser River Pile and Dredge, ScotiaBank, Southern Rail of British Columbia, BlueSky Properties, Kruger Products, Starlight Casino, Winvan Paving, Cassady and Company, Cartwright Jewelers and Mott Electric among others.

“The power of our donors will continue to impact the needs of our patients as we move forward into the redevelopment of RCH – the largest redevelopment of any hospital in Canada. We remain grateful and humbled by your support,” concludes Bakker.

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Making some magic CG Masters brings movies to life

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ore and more movie magic is happening in the digital realm.

Locations can be difficult and expensive to access. Weather can wreak havoc with tight production schedules. Directors want to push the envelope of their creativity. So it’s up to digital artists and programmers to create realities that don’t—or can’t—exist.

That’s exactly what the students at Nick Boughen’s CG Masters Academy are learning to do. Hunched over computers and tablets connected to powerful servers, peering into banks of high-def monitors, they’re sculpting digital ones and zeroes into fantastical renderings or even subtle enhancements to our own world.

A veteran of 15 years as a visual effects artist for films like I Robot, Invictus and Salt, as well as TV series and commercials, Boughen says digital effects have removed almost every limitation to what can be achieved in film or video games. It’s work that can be monotonous in its creation but spectacular when completed.

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“Creative people are seduced by the idea they can create anything they can imagine.” To realize that, students are given a foundation in photography, lighting and shading, composing and rigging, particles and dynamics in an intensive three-semester program over the course of a year, as well as boot camps in specialized areas like Houdini programming. And unlike other sectors of the film industry which come in and out of favour according to factors like location costs and tax incentives, the need for trained visual effects artists is ongoing.

“There’s more films being produced worldwide, so there’s more need for visual effects,” says Boughen. “It’s healthy and growing.”

Locating CG Masters, which is comprised of three classrooms and a green screen studio, in the Shops @ Westminster Station gives students easy access via SkyTrain to studios and production houses in Vancouver, while saving them the expenses of living in the big city. Boughen says he’s also hopeful his students will be able to tap into the creative energy percolating in New West’s Downtown.

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usinesses compete against each other for the consumer dollar.

But it’s in their interest to work together to achieve success.

In New Westminster there’s no shortage of networking groups and opportunities for business people and professionals to share ideas, exchange advice, even mentor.

“There’s a lot of people wanting to do business in New Westminster,” says Conway. “We would like to get the most coverage possible to promote business in the city.”

That includes initiatives to showcase what the city does well, as well as a greater effort to promote the city in social media.

The New Westminster Chamber of Commerce recently celebrated its 130th birthday.

In November the chamber hosted its first economic forum that drew almost 300 attendees to La Perla Ballroom.

Formed as a Board of Trade on Feb. 22, 1883 to give a voice to its 46 founding members in New Westminster, it became a chamber of commerce in 1960. Those were the halcyon days of the Golden Mile.

The keynote speaker was Vancouver condo marketer Bob Rennie, who generated quite a bit of buzz when he suggested New Westminster should ditch its Royal City branding to appeal to a younger demographic.

But with developers and businesses rediscovering the Royal City, the Chamber’s new president Christine Conway says opportunity is knocking.

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“New Westminster can be anything it wants to be,” he said.

“Now is the time to act on it.”

Columbia theatre networking group

The chamber also founded the Platinum Awards gala to recognize the best of the city’s business and community leaders. Future plans for its centennial year include partnering with the Surrey Board of Trade to discuss common opportunities on the Fraser River and a trade show in October that will focus of planning for business succession.

shared similar stories and challenges on the road to their business callings.

The city’s young professionals have found a voice with NEXT New West that organizes networking opportunities through social events like wine tastings, dinners at local restaurants, an ugly sweater curling bonspiel.

“The bottom line is business, but it’s helpful working together,” says Heidi Clarkson, one of the founders. “We’re almost like a sounding board, exchanging ideas.”

“It’s all about how to get people to experience everything New West has to offer,” says Tej Kainth, of Tourism New Westminster and one of the group’s founders.

“We all share a sense of community and a sense of pride and we want to build partnerships with each other.”

Also in November they recognized their own emerging leaders by honouring 25 of them at the NextUP awards at the Inn at the Quay.

A fledgling group is bringing together the city’s female entrepreneurs.

New West B2B Network of Women formed last October over beers and nachos at the Dublin Castle neighbourhood grill when some of the businesses who’d signed up to participate in a nationwide Small Business Saturday promotion decided to meet on the eve of the event. They discovered they were all women and

“At first it was just social, but then we started sharing ideas,” says Robyn Murrell of Robyn’s Vintage Nest and Zhoosh Fitness By Design. The group includes a wedding planner, a property stage, an esthetician, a pub and three home decor shops.

Perhaps taking a cue from their business cousins, New Westminster’s music community is in the process of forming its own networking group to connect with each other and supportive businesses.

By working together organizer Michael Hwang, a director of the Columbia Theatre hopes they’ll be able to improve the lot of independent musicians in the city who earn an average income of about $7,000.

The idea grew out of the live music jams the Columbia hosts on Wednesday and Sunday evenings, where musicians get a chance to play some licks, but don’t earn a lick.

“I was quite puzzled by this,” says Hwang. “A lot of musicians are leaving the industry because they can’t make a living.”

The group is still in its formative stages, but it’s planning further discussions in the coming year with an eye towards creating a new business model for live music in the city.

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Member Listings A. Hopkins Insurance and Financial Services 131 Eighth Street New Westminster V3M 3P6 www.chambers.ca Ability Healthcare 201 - 360 Edworthy Way New Westminster V3L 5T8 Above Contracting and Consulting Inc. 8697 Tenth Avenue New Westminster V3N 5B9 Access China Tours Inc. 345 - 555 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 5H1 www.accesschinatours.com Accurate Lock and Safe Co. Ltd. 439 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B1 www.accuratesecurity.com Advanced Fleet Maintenance Ltd. 57 Braid Street New Westminster V3L 3P2 www.advancedfleet.ca Affordable Housing Societies 1 - 1001 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3M 1K3 www.affordablehsg.com Agatha Cluff Inc. 304 - 15957 84 Avenue Surrey V4N 0W7 Allegra New West Plowright Printing 14 - 610 Derwent Way Delta V3M 6W1 www.plowrightprinting.com Alliance Motor Cars 90 Braid Street New Westminster V3L 3P4 www.alliancemotorcars.com Aluglass 306 - 6741 Cariboo Road Burnaby V3N 4A3 www.aluglass.com

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Amicus Lawyers 711 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1B2 www.amicuslawyers.com

BC Institute PMAC 300 - 435 Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 5N8 www.bcipmac.ca

BonceaImages.com Photography 424 - 3 Rialto Court New Westminster V3M 6P2 www.bonceaimages.com

Amigos Travel Corp.

202 - 304 Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 1A6 www.amigostravel.ca

Beedie Development Group 3030 Gilmore Diversion Burnaby V5G 3B4 www.beediegroup.ca

Bosley’s Pet Food Plus 114 - 1015 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 6H6 www.bosleys.com

Anacta Maintenance and Services 615 Twentieth Street New Westminster V3M 4W1

Bell Mobility Suite 400 - 2925 Virtual Way Vancouver V5M 4X5 www.bell.ca

Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine 300 - 435 Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 5N8 www.binm.org

Angela Kerslake Law 131 Eighth Street New Westminster V3M 3P6 www.thegalbraith.com Angelina’s Breakfast 115 - 960 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6G2 Aragon Properties Ltd. 201 - 1628 West 1st Avenue Vancouver V6J 1G1 www.aragon.ca Artis Dental Centre 523 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B9 www.artisdentalcentre.com Arts Council of New Westminster PO Box 16003 - Queens Park New Westminster V3M 6W6 www.artscouncilnewwest.org Arundel Mansion 48 Begbie Street New Westminster V3M 3L9 www.arundelmansion.com Authentic Dental Lab 209 - 2383 King George Highway Surrey V4A 5A4 Basil Restoration Ltd. 106 - 1089 East Kent Avenue North Vancouver V5X 4V9 www.basilrestorationltd.ca BC Business Magazine 4180 Lougheed Highway - 4th Floor Burnaby V5C 6A7 www.bcbusinessmagazine.com

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Bert’s Automotive 920 Agnes Street New Westminster V3M 1H6 Best Personnel 118 - 713 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1B2 www.best-personnel.ca Best Western Chelsea Inn and Suites 725 Brunette Avenue New Westminster V3K 1C3 www.bestwesternchelseainn.com Better Business Bureau of Mainland BC 404 - 788 Beatty Street Vancouver V6B 2M1 www.mbc.bbb.org Bloomsbury Gardens Ltd. 530 Third Street New Westminster V3L 2S8 Blue Sky Properties 1800 - 4555 Kingsway Burnaby V5H 4T8 www.blueskyproperties.ca BMO Bank of Montreal 125 - 610 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C2 www.bmo.com Boathouse Waterfront Restaurant 900 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6G1 www.boathouserestaurants.ca

Braun Financial Services Ltd. 325 - 555 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 5H1 www.braunfinancial.com Brick and Mortar Living 42 Begbie Street New Westminster V3M 3L9 www.brickandmortarliving.com Brinkman and Associates Reforestation 520 Sharpe Street New Westminster V3M 4R2 www.brinkmanforest.ca Brook Pooni Associates Inc. 410 - 535 Thurlow Street Vancouver V6E 3L2 www.brookpooni.com Brookes and Co. CGA 103 - 443 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B1 www.brookescga.com Bros Dental Laboratory 4 - 6890 MacPherson Avenue Burnaby V5J 4N1 Bullock’s The Eye Opener New Westminster 536A Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B5 www.eyeopeneroptical.com

Member Listings Bullpen Baseball and Softball School 110 - 100 Braid Street New Westminster V3L 3P4 www.bullpen.ca

Certified Management Accountants 1000 - 900 West Hastings Street Vancouver V6C 0C4 www.cmabc.com

C2K Solutions 2915 Keets Drive Coquitlam V3C 6J2 www.c2ksolutions.com

Chan Real Estate 2101 - 6823 Station Hill Drive Burnaby V3N 0A9

CAMS Software Corporation 210 - 109 Braid Street New Westminster V3L 5H4 www.camspro.com Can. Mental Health Assoc. Simon Fraser Branch 435 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B1 www.simonfraser.cmha.bc.ca Canadian Western Bank 103 - 15230 Highway 10 Surrey V3S 5K7 www.cwbank.com Cap’s Bicycle Shop 434 A East Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 2W9 www.capsbicycleshop.com Carlson-Wagonlit Travel 635 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C1 www.holidaytrips.ca Carnarvon Garden Development 150 - 10691 Shellbridge Way Richmond V6X 2W8 Carr Estate Management 428 Third Street New Westminster V3L 2S2 Cartwright Jewelers Ltd. 639 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C1 www.cartwrightjewelers.com Cassady and Company 330 - 522 Seventh Street New Westminster V3M 5T5 www.cassadylaw.com

Charlie’s Petspa and Daycare Ltd. 865 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3M 1G2 www.charliespetspa.com Cherilyn Apartments 104 - 211 Ash Street New Westminster V3M 3M5 CIBC New Westminster Station Banking Centre 210 - 800 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3M 0G3 www.cibc.com CIBC Wood Gundy Inc. 409 - 960 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6G2 www.woodgundy.com City of New Westminster 511 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3L 1H9 www.newwestcity.ca Classic Car Wash Ltd. 554 Ames Street New Westminster V3L 4A9 www.classic-car-wash.com Columbia Integrated Health Centre 756 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1B4 www.columbianintegrated health.com Columbia Bowell Chapel Kearny Funeral Services 219 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3A3 www.kearneyfs.com Common Cents Bookkeeping 304 - 15261 Russell Avenue White Rock V4B 2P7 www.commoncentsbookkeeping.ca

Core Plan Financial Inc. 600 A - 5945 Kathleen Avenue Burnaby V5H 4J7 www.coreplan.net

Divanti Designs Inc. 2504 Nuttal Drive Nanoose Bay V9P 9B4 www.divantidesigns.ca

Courtesy Dry Cleaners Ltd. 633 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C1

DLC - Canadian Mortgage Experts 501 - 17665 - 66A Avenue Surrey V3S 2A7 www.glenwong.com

CR Technology Solutions 13377 B 72nd Avenue Surrey V3W 2N5 www.crtechnology.ca

Donaldson Grassi 615 Fourth Avenue New Westminster V3M 1S5

Crystal Glass 7454 Sixth Street Burnaby V3N 4P9 www.crystalglass.ca

Donna J. Walters 1006 - 1185 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6T8

D.J.’s Paint and Body (1987) Ltd. 1011 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3M 1K3 www.djspaint.com Danny’s Inn Ltd. 317 Cambie Street Vancouver V6B 2N4 Dave Vallee of Re/Max Advantage Realty 102 - 321 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3A7

Double Black Technology 123 Seventh Avenue New Westminster V3L 3W2 www.doubleblacktechnology.com Douglas College PO Box 2503 - 700 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3L 5B2 www.douglas.bc.ca Douglas College Co-operative Education PO Box 2503 - 700 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3L 5B2 www.douglas.bc.ca/services/co-op

David Brennan 320 - 13880 70th Avenue Surrey V3W 0T3

Douglas College Foundation 1250 Pinetree Way Coquitlam V3B 7Z4 www.douglas.bc.ca

Dawn Black, MLA 737 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C6

Douglas College Self Emp. Program - SEP Room 0624 - 700 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3M 5Z5 www.douglas.bc.ca/sep

De Dutch Pannekoek House Restaurant 102 - 1035 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1C4 www.dedutch.com DEC Engineering 309 - 713 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1B2 www.engineeringsustainability.com Delphina Roofing and Installations 172 - 720 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C5 www.delphinaenterprises.com

Downtown New Westminster BIA 100 - 713 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1B2 www.downtownnewwest.ca Dr. Andrea Csiszar Inc. 801 - 625 Fifth Avenue New Westminster V3M 1X4

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Member Listings Drink Urban Lounge 609 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1A7 www.tagpubs.com

Essence Hair Design 887 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3M 1G2 www.essencehairdesign.com

Fraser Orthopaedic Treatment Clinic 403 - 233 Nelson’s Crescent New Westminster V3L 0E4

Dublin Castle 101 - 620 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3L 5S5 www.dublincastle.ca

Etherstane Developments Ltd. 319 Fourth Street New Westminster V3L 2V3

Fraser River Discovery Centre 788 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6Z6 www.fraserriverdiscovery.org

Dye and Durham Corporation 10 - 620 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3M 1Y2 www.dyedurhambc.com

Executive Plaza Hotel and Conference Centre 405 North Road Coquitlam V3K 3V9 www.executivehotels.net

Dynamic Health and Fitness 199 - 610 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C2 www.dynamichealthandfitness.ca

Fabutan Sun Tan Studios 109 - 607 Belmont Street New Westminster V3M 5Z8 www.fabutan.com

Eden Accents 451 East Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 3X6 www.edenaccents.ca

Fairbairn Inspection Services 204 - 12 K de K Court New Westminster V3M 6C5 www.fairbairninspections.com

Elevated Marketing 215 - 119 West Pender Street Vancouver V6B 1S5 www.elevatedmarketing.com

Family Eyecare Centre of New Westminster 233 - 610 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C2 www.familyeyecarecentre.ca

Elks Club of New Westminster 301 - 681 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1A8 EMS Consulting Ltd. 208 - 360 Edworthy Way New Westminster V3L 5T8 Engman and Gunther Notaries Public 710 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C5 www.engmangunther.ca Entrepreneurial Success Network (ESN) 17120 Fedoruk Road Richmond V6V 1C7 www.esnorg.org Eric and Juliana Vallee of Keller Williams Realty 1110 Hamilton Street New Westminster V3M 2M9 www.valleerealestate.ca

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Fiesta Creative Catering 800 Twentieth Street New Westminster V3M 4W6 www.fiestacreativecatering.com Fin Donnelly, MP 1116 Austin Avenue Coquitlam V3K 3P5 www.FinDonnelly.ca First Canadian Barter Exchange 15093 73rd Avenue Surrey V3S 7A9 www.barterfirst.com First Capital Asset Management ULC 110 - 888 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3M 0C6 www.firstcapitalrealty.ca Fortis BC 16705 Fraser Highway Surrey V4N 0E8 www.fortisbc.com

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Fraser Works Co-Op Work BC Employment Services Centre 2nd Floor 519 Seventh Street New Westminster V3M 6A7 www.fraserworks.ca Fraserside Community Services Society 2nd Floor 519 Seventh Street New Westminster V3M 6A7 www.fraserside.bc.ca G and F Financial Group 760 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C7 www.gffg.com Galbraith Manor 131 Eighth Street New Westminster V3M 3P6 www.thegalbraith.com Game Factory Inc. 100 - 522 Seventh Street New Westminster V3M 5T5 www.ogplanet.com Gastown Business College 200 - 73 Water Street Vancouver V6B 1A1 www.gbcol.ca Gaudier Cleaning Services Ltd. 2045 Edinburgh Street New Westminster V3M 2X7 Gavin Palmer 412 - 288 Hampton Street New Westminster V3M 5L9 Geraldine Harder 309 - 12 K de K Court New Westminster V3M 6C5

Glenn Duxbury and Associates Building Inspection and Consulting 125 DeBeck Street New Westminster V3L 3H7 glennduxbury-inspections.com Goodwin and Mark LLP 217 - 713 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1B2 www.goodmark.ca Great Canadian Van Lines Ltd. 203 - 669 Ridley Place Delta V3M 6Y9 www.greatcanadianvanlines.com Great Pacific Pawnbrokers 809 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3M 1E8 Great Spots! Recreation Properties Ltd. 430 Fourth Street New Westminster V3L 2V4 www.greatspots.com Great West Fire and Safety Ltd. 128 East Tenth Avenue New Westminster V3L 4R6 Greens and Beans Deli 143 East Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 3V9 www.greensandbeansdeli.com Grizzly Construction 228 Fifth Avenue New Westminster V3L 1R4 Grow Creative 205 - 810 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6B9 www.growcreative.ca Guardian Angels Family Daycare 1020 Napanee Street New Westminster V3M 0C2 Hair by Lana 10 - 45 Fourth Street New Westminster V3L 5H7 Hamburger Mary’s Diner 1202 Davie Street Vancouver V6E 1N3

Member Listings Health Staffing International 230 - 618 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1A8 www.healthstaffing.org

Integrated Pest Supplies 108 - 360 Edworthy Way New Westminster V3L 5T8 www.integratedpestsupplies.com

La Perla Ballroom 204 - 810 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6B9 www.laperlaballroom.com

Honour House Society 509 St. George Street New Westminster V3L 1L1 www.honourhouse.ca

Investors Group, Tony Chee 900 - 5945 Kathleen Avenue Burnaby V5H 4J7 www.investorsgroup.com

Hope International Development Agency 214 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3A2 www.hope-international.com

IUGO Mobile Entertainment Inc. 310 - 788 Beatty Street Vancouver V6B 2M1 www.iugome.com

Laskey Counselling and Hypnotherapy 607 - 625 Fifth Avenue New Westminster V3M 1X4 www.laskeytherapy.com

HOPS - A Northwest Pub 48 Eighth Street New Westminster V3M 3N8 www.tagpubs.com HSBC Bank Canada 504 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B4 www.hsbc.ca Hyack Festival Association 204 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3A1 www.hyack.bc.ca Hyack Tire 2012 66 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 2Z7 www.hyackexceltire.com Immediate Images Inc. 16028 Delsey Place South Surrey V3S 0J1 www.immediateimages.com Inclusion BC 227 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3A5 www.bcacl.org Incredibles Quality Consignment Boutique 417B Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B1 www.incrediblesconsignment boutique.com Inn at the Quay 900 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6G1 www.innatthequay.com

Justice Institute of BC 715 McBride Boulevard New Westminster V3L 5T4 www.jibc.ca Kaushal and Company 400 - 713 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1B2 www.kaushal-co.ca Key West Ford 301 Stewardson Way New Westminster V3M 2A5 www.keywestford.com Kenneth O. Macgowan 209 - 8888 202 Street Langley V1M 4A7 Kermode Forest Products 71 Braid Street New Westminster V3L 3P2 www.kfp.ca Kids and Company 281 Nelson’s Court New Westminster V3L E03 Kirmac Collision and Autoglass 1307 Third Avenue New Westminster V3M 1R2 www.kirmac.com KPMG - MSLP Metrotower 2, 2400 - 4720 Kingsway Burnaby V5H 4N2 www.kpmg.com Kucheran Wood Products Ltd. 340 Mercer Street New Westminster V3M 5H1

Lucy Homestay 428 Shiles Street New Westminster V3L 3K6 M2 Landscape Architecture 220 - 26 Lorne Mews New Westminster V3M 3C7 www.m2la.com

Last Door Recovery Society 323 Eighth Street New Westminster V3M 3R3 www.lastdoor.org Laura Nguyen 21 - 8250 121A Street Surrey V3W 0G1 Lavender House Bed and Breakfast 816 Tenth Street New Westminster V3M 4A1 www.lavenderhousebandb.com Lazar Plumbing and Heating Inc. 19 - 1833 Coast Meridian Road Port Coquitlam V3C 6G5 www.lazarphs.ca LeFebvre Innovations Inc. 170 Ioco Road Port Moody V3H 2W8 www.dustlessfloorsanding.ca Leisure Baths Ltd. 6909 Antrim Avenue Burnaby V5J 4M5 www.relax-a-mist.com Legal Shield Cherylann Colby www.legalshield.com Leverage Advantage Systems 104 - 2968 Burlington Drive Coquitlam V3B 7N4 www.leverageadvantage.com Lower Mainland Purpose Society 40 Begbie Street New Westminster V3M 3L9 www.purposesociety.org Lowe’s 1085 Tanaka Court New Westminster V3M 0G2 www.lowes.ca

Massey Theatre and Plaskett Gallery 735 Eighth Avenue New Westminster V3M 2R2 www.masseytheatre.com McDonald’s Restaurant 815 McBride Boulevard New Westminster V3L 2B9 www.mcdonalds.ca McKenzie Equipment and Repair Ltd. 185 - 13888 70th Avenue Surrey V3W 0R8 McLaren Trefanenko Inc. 350 - 522 Seventh Street New Westminster V3M 5T5 www.mti-cga.com McLin Computer Accounting Support 1801 - 10 Laguna Court New Westminster V3M 6W3 McQuarrie Hunter LLP 1500 - 13450 102nd Avenue Surrey V3T 5X3 www.mcquarrie.com Millennium Flooring Centre Inc. 482 East Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 3X5 www.millenniumflooringcentre.com Mini Load Disposal Ltd. 407 - 83 Star Crescent New Westminster V3M 6X8 www.miniloaddisposal.com Moody Beads 622 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1A5 www.moodybeads.ca Moulton Toft Inc. 902 - 209 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3L 1B7

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Member Listings Munro and Company 9912 Lougheed Highway Burnaby V3J 1N3 www.munrocga.com Music Box - Music and Theatre Academy 211 Building, 810 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6B9 www.musicboxnw.ca New Riva CafĂŠ 9031 - 136B Street Surrey V3V 7P1 New Westminster Baseball 829 Eighth Avenue New Westminster V3M 2R4 www.newwestbaseball.com New Westminster Family Place Society 101 - 93 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 2Z8 www.nwfamily.bc.ca New Westminster Lawn Bowling Club 710 Eighth Street New Westminster V3M 3S2 www.newwestlawnbowls.com New Westminster Optometry Clinic 201 - 88 Tenth Street New Westminster V3M 6H8 newwestminsteroptometry.com New Westminster School District 40 2nd Floor - 1001 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1C4 www.district.sd40.bc.ca Northside Pete Products Inc. 24 Braid Street New Westminster V3L 3P3 www.northsidepetroleum.com NovaWest Electrical Services 20 - 825 McBride Boulevard New Westminster V3L 5B5 www.novawestelectrical.ca

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Nurse Next Door, Burnaby New West 108 - 7885 Sixth Street Burnaby V3N 3N4 www.nursenextdoor.com Of Desks Studio Inc. 205 - 810 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6B9 www.ofdesks.com

Perry A. Wilson Consulting 1405 - 1250 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6E2 www.perryawilsonconsulting.com

QR Mobile Marketing Inc. 314 - 4111 Hastings Street Burnaby V5C 6T7 www.mobilemarketing4you.com

Peter Julian, MP 7615 Sixth Street Burnaby V3N 3M6 www.peterjulian.ca

Queens Avenue Daycare Society 529 Queens Avenue New Westminster V3L 1K2

Pharmasave #263 424 Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 1B1 www.pharmasave.com

Queensborough Landing Liquor Store T 140 - 805 Boyd Street New Westminster V3M 5X2 www.tagpubs.com

Pilot Design PH 2 - 2333 Eton Street Vancouver V5L 1E2 www.pilotbrand.com

Qore Health Centre and Spa 630 Fifth Street New Westminster V3L 2X9 www.qorehealth.ca

Pilothouse Real Estate Inc. PH - 620 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3M 1J2 www.pilothouseinc.com

Rags to Riches Top Shop 9556 - 195 Street Surrey V4N 4G2 www.ragstorichestopshop.ca

Plascon Plastics 790 Audley Boulevard Delta V3M 5T1 www.plasconplastics.com

Rapid Time Networks 209 Seventh Avenue New Westminster V3L 1W4 www.rapidtimenetworks.com

Port Metro Vancouver 100 The Pointe, 999 Canada Place Vancouver V6C 3T4 www.portmetrovancouver.com

RBC Dominion Securities 201 - 960 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6G2 www.rbcds.com

Pacific Reload Inc. 201 Duncan Street New Westminster V3M 5G3

possAbilities Employment Service Suite 240, 4664 Lougheed Highway Burnaby V3L 3A7 www.possabilities.ca

RBC Royal Bank (Plaza 88) 240 - 800 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3M 0G3 www.rbc.com

Pacific Tobacco and Cigars 633 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1A7 www.cigarpuff.com

Prime Image Technologies 3784 Napier Street Burnaby V5C 3E5 www.primeimagegroup.com

RBC Royal Bank Business Banking 2nd Floor, 626 Sixth Avenue New Westminster V3M 6Z2 www.royalbank.com

Paddlewheeler Pub 126 - 810 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6B9 www.paddlewheelerpub.ca

Priority Permits Ltd. 104 - 713 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1B2 www.prioritypermits.com

Reflections Eyewear Ltd. 1305 Hamilton Street New Westminster V3M 2N4 www.reflectionsbytraff.ca

Patti Goss of Re/Max Advantage Realty 102 - 321 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3A7 www.pattigoss.com

Prism Printing and Digital Centre 1 - 228 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3A4 www.prismprinting.ca

Right Angle Holder Ltd. 304 - 111 Agnes Street New Westminster V3L 1E4 www.rightangleholder.com

OK Tire Auto Service 325 Twelfth Street New Westminster V3M 4H5 www.oktire.com Old Bavaria Haus Restaurant 233 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3A5 www.oldbavariahaus.com One Source Productions 2010 334 Twelfth Street New Westminster V3M 4H6 www.onesourceproduction.com Pacific Bolt Manufacturing Ltd. 435 Canfor Avenue New Westminster V3L 5H5 www.pactbolt.com Pacific Breeze Winery 6 - 320 Stewardson Way New Westminster V3M 6C3 www.pacificbreezewinery.com

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Member Listings River Market at Westminster Quay 810 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6B9 www.rivermarket.ca River’s Reach Pub 320 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3V8 www.riversreach.com Royal City Centre 227 - 610 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C2 www.royalcitycentre.ca Royal City Colours 700 Twelfth Street New Westminster V3M 4J6 www.royalcitycolours.com Royal City Curling Club 75 East Sixth Avenue New Westminster V3L 4G6 www.royalcitycc.com Royal City Fire Supplies Ltd. 633 Twelfth Street New Westminster V3M 4J5 www.royalcityfiresupplies.ca Royal City Jewellers and Loans 515 Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 1B2 www.rcj.ca Royal City Manor 77 Jamieson Court New Westminster V3L 3P8 www.reveraliving.com Royal City Musical Theatre 735 Eighth Avenue New Westminster V3M 2R2 www.royalcitymusicaltheatre.com Royal City Taxi Ltd. 436 Rousseau Street New Westminster V3L 3R3 www.royalcitytaxi.com Royal City Youth Ballet 511 Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 1B2 www.royalcityyouthballet.org

Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation 330 East Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 3W7 www.rchcares.com Sands and Associates Metrotown Tower 2, 2600 - 4720 Kingsway Burnaby V5H 4N2 www.sands-trustee.com Savvy Space Solutions 822 - 104 - 1015 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 6V3 www.savvyspacesolutions.com SB Communications and Public Affairs Ltd. 422 Third Street New Westminster V3L 2S2 www.sbcommunications andpublicaffairs.com Scotiabank 728 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1A9 www.scotiabank.com Seniors Services Society 750 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3M 1E7 www.seniorsservicessociety.ca Service Canada 100 - 3480 Gilmore Way Burnaby V5G 4Y1 www.servicecanada.gc.ca Seymour Evancic Gardner and Associates 400 - 505 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B9 www.segcga.com Sherpa Ventures 520 Chester Road Delta V3M 5V8 SignFast Signs 7891 Kingsway Burnaby V3N 3E4 www.fastsigns.com

Sign Shop C60 Braid Street New Westminster V3L 3P3 www.signshopbc.ca

Synergist Communications Inc. 205 - 810 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6B9 www.synergistcommunications.com

Simon Fraser Society for Community Living 811 Royal Avenue New Westminster V3M 1K1 www.inclusionbc.org

Tanex Industries 1068 Auckland Street New Westminster V3M 1K8 TD Canada Trust New Westminster 573 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3G8 www.tdcanadatrust.com

Southern Railway of BC 2102 River Drive New Westminster V3M 6S3 www.sryraillink.com

TD Commercial Bank 1933 Willingdon Avenue Burnaby V5C 5J3 www.td.com

Sprott Shaw College 420 - 88 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 5B3 www.sprottshaw.com

The Columbia 530 Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 1B1 www.thecolumbia.ca

St. John Ambulance 200 - 604 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1A5 www.sja.ca

The Co-operators 6th Street and 6th Avenue 607 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C1 www.cooperators.ca

Starlight Casino 350 Gifford Street New Westminster V3M 7A3 www.starlightcasino.ca Step by Step Dance School 202 - 627 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1A7 www.danceschoolstepbystep.com Stuart Crown and Co. Inc 245 - 550 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B7 www.crowncoinc.com Subway 21A - 800 McBride Boulevard New Westminster V3L 1B8 www.subway.com Sunquest Mobility and Medical Equipment 516 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B4 www.sunquestmobility.com Syndicau Development Inc. 401 - 1019 Nanaimo Street New Westminster V3M 2E7

The Frame Shop 121 Third Avenue New Westminster V3L 1L7 www.theframeshop.ca The Hospitality Project 1111 Sixth Avenue New Westminster V3M 2B7 The Met Bar and Grill 411 Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 1A9 www.themethotel.com The Met Hotel 411 Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 1A9 www.themethotel.com The New Vista Society and Foundation 7550 Rosewood Street Burnaby V5E 3Z3 www.newvista.bc.ca

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Member Listings The NewsLeader 7438 Fraser Park Drive Burnaby V5J 5B9 www.burnabynewsleader.com

Total Martial Arts 612 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3M 1E3 www.totalmartialarts.ca

Vancity Credit Union 2 1625 Fifth Avenue New Westminster V3M 1Z7 www.vancity.com

Westminster Centre 330 - 555 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 5H1 www.westminstercentre.com

The Pantry Restaurant 425 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3B1 www.thepantry.ca

Tourism New Westminster 100 - 713 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1B2 www.tourismnewwestminster.ca

Westminster House 228 Seventh Street New Westminster V3M 3K3 www.westminsterhouse.ca

The Record 201A - 3430 Brighton Avenue Burnaby V5A 3H4 www.royalcityrecord.com

TRAC Records Inc. 303 - 285 Ross Drive New Westminster V3L 0B9 www.tracrecords.ca

Vancouver Canadians Professional Baseball Club 4601 Ontario Street Vancouver V5V 3H4 www.canadiansbaseball.com

The Royal Canadian Legion 2 631 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3C1

Translink 1600 - 4720 Kingsway Burnaby V5H 4N2 www.translink.ca

The Tanning Studio 512 Seventh Avenue New Westminster V3L 1W9 www.thetanningstudio.ca The Wine Factory 649 Front Street New Westminster V3M 1A2 www.winefactory.ca Thrifty Foods 270 East Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 1A6 www.triftyfoods.com TigerTel Communications 212 - 6011 Westminster Highway Richmond V7C 4V4 www.tigertel.com TM Creative Direction 410B 1210 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6H1 www.tmcreativedirection.com Top Dental Lab 301 - 4900 Kingsway Burnaby V5H 2E3 Torbram Electric Supply 2225 Springer Avenue Burnaby V5B 3N1 www.torbramelectric.com

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VanderWart Consulting Inc. 217 Pembina Street New Westminster V3M 5J3 Vibe Beauty Lounge 808 Twentieth Street New Westminster V3M 4W6 Wei Wen Zeng Inc. 450 - 604 Columbia Street New Westminster V3M 1A5 www.toddzengcga.com Welcome Wagon Darlene Porter www.welcomewagon.ca Wesgroup 2000 - 1055 Dunsmuir Street Vancouver V7X 1L5 www.wesgroup.ca West Coast Court Bailiffs Inc. 101 - 668 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3M 5Y6 www.wccb.ca West Coast Genesis Society 305 Carnarvon Street New Westminster V3L 1B7 www.westcaostgenesissociety.ca Western Canada Veterinary Eye Specialist Inc. 460 East Columbia Street New Westminster V3L 3X5 www.bcanimaleyes.com Westland Insurance 255 Sixth Street New Westminster V3L 3A5 www.westland-insurance.com

Westminster Savings 108 - 960 Quayside Drive New Westminster V3M 6G2 www.wscu.com

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