The 2016 Business Excellence Awards were celebrated in style on February 24 as Mission’s business community gathered together at The Clarke Theatre to honour their own. Presented by the Mission Regional Chamber of Commerce, the awards celebrate high achievement in a variety of categories.
P resident’s Award Cal Crawford
has lived in Mission for more than 28 years. A strong believer in contributing to the community, Cal likes to be involved at all levels. He has over 38 years of real estate experience and is well known for his expertise in ownership, management, training and sales. Cal has served as a Director on the Edmonton Real Estate Board and was honoured by Realty World Canada with the Martin Coleclough Award for Manager of the Year for Realty World Canada in 1986. Before real estate, Cal was an electrician for 13 years. Cal has received recognition from the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board for being in the top 10 per cent of Sales Associates in Production for the past 18 years. In more than 20 years of living in Mission, Cal has contributed greatly to his community. At different times Cal has served as president, first vice-president,
Congratulations! Award Winners & Nominees
We are honoured to recognize and congratulate all nominees and winners of the 2016 Business Excellence Awards. We appreciate everything you do in our community, and thank you for all your contributions. You are leaders in the community and fantastic representatives of Mission.
We wish you continued success.
second vice-president and director of the Mission Regional Chamber of Commerce, president of the Kinsmen Club of Mission, and has been an active Kinsmen for 20 years. Cal has also been the chairman of the Candlelight Parade and the chairman of the Mission Showcase. Cal was a founding member of the Mid-day Rotary Club of Mission serving as president in July 2007 and June 2008. Some of Cal’s achievements include the Special Citizen Recognition Award in 1992, Citizen of the Year award in 1995, and Business Leader of the Year Award in 2010. Cal’s contributions to the community have helped him become a very well-respected and trustworthy person who always looks to put others first. Over the years, the City of Mission has honoured Crawford with a Special Citizen Recognition award; a Citizen of the Year award and a Business Leader of the Year award.
Educational Leader Award
Community Builder Award
At Vancity
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Fraser Valley
Big Bang Award Lacey Developments is a full service contractor serving the Fraser Valley building beautiful custom homes and doing awardwinning renovations and commercial work. Based in Deroche, the company is a proud member of the Mission community as an active member of the volunteer committee. Staff work to run the Blessings in a Backpack program serving Dewdney, Deroche and Mission Central elementary schools sending food home on weekends with over 40 children. The team is the key to Lacey Developments’ success in construction as well as its long-term relationships with Mission companies
the sky is the limit – and they put their money where their mouth is with the employee tuition reimbursement program. Vancity encourages its staff to set goals and to find their passion which the company supports by offering a variety of professional development opportunities. Through in-house training, one-onone coaching sessions, and an online learning platform that offers instructorled courses available to all Vancity staff at anytime. Vancity loves to see its employees grow.
is a community minded organization that focuses its efforts on the needs of children in the area. When a child or parent comes to them looking for extra support, they are matched with a volunteer mentor who is accepted through a stringent screening process. Through group programs, healthy living habits are encouraged and children can have fun and socialize with other kids their age under guidance from an adult mentor. With the dedicated staff here in Mission, BBBSFV works hard to put their passion for helping youth to work for the community.
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members is our greatest award. Thanks to our members for voting for us for the Mission Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards. Mission community branch 150 – 32555 London Avenue, 604.820.6753 Make Good Money (TM) is a trademark of Vancouver City Savings Credit Union.
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Power of Small Award
Local Focus Award
Customer First Award Martin’s Downtown is a fully
licensed, full service restaurant serving lunch and dinner. It also have event space available for private bookings of 20-50 guests. Diners enjoy the benefit of gathering together to enjoy great food in an inclusive environment. Martin’s supports other local business by purchasing local goods and services. The company also supports local, notfor-profit organizations with goods and services at no or reduced cost.
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Arsenault Tree Service
is a family run business with 40 years of industry experience. The company is a full service arborist focused on plant health care, committed to the safety of employees and the public, providing superior customer service as well as being dedicated to continued education and professional development for all employees. Arsenault puts its customers first by always trying to answer every phone call in person and offering any help or guidance they can on initial customer contact. Whenever possible staff place follow up calls to arrange for estimates the same day and if the current work commitments will not allow them to supply estimates and have work completed in a timely manner, they are honest with customers so that they can make decisions based on their schedules and needs, not the company’s.
Gifts is a trendy local yarn store selling yarn and yarn related handmade artisan items like knitted shawls, scarves, hats, sweaters, handwoven clothing, pillow cases, blankets, (yarn) pottery handmade buttons and much more. They provide customers with unique and authentic yarns and gifts, and support local yarn artists from all around the Fraser Valley and B.C.
Congratulations to all the Nominees By being nominated you have proven that your
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