RENFREW COLLINGWOOD COMMUNITY NEWS
15
March 2016
Rajesh Joshi is the General Manager of our local CIBC Banking Centre at the northwest corner of Kingsway and Joyce. Rajesh is proud of CIBC for commitment to helping people. “CIBC is client focused,” says Rajesh, which is why he got into finance – to help people. This past January will mark Rajesh’s ninth year with CIBC. Starting as a financial service representative, he worked his way up through the three levels before becoming Branch manager in 2011. In order to help us with their wide variety of financial services, the CIBC Banking Centre at Kingsway and Joyce offers a knowledgeable staff, some with over 25 years of experience. With a team of Financial Advisor and Financial Services Representatives, Rajesh says that your CIBC banking centre is ready to help in over ten languages including English, Italian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalog, Korean, Hindi, Punjabi, and Indonesian. “It’s so important,” says Rajesh, “to be able to get rid of language barriers when doing business, whether its service from a teller, or when dealing with our Certified Financial Planners.” Rajesh is proud of his staff and sees his team at CIBC as an extended family. Rajesh is proud of CIBC for its continuous innovation. For instance, CIBC was the first of the Big 5 banks to offer the technology to deposit a cheque by taking a picture of it. “CIBC is on the cutting edge. We need to keep pace because everything changes so fast:
mobile banking, mobile apps; people can now buy stocks with their phones.” Rajesh is also proud of CIBC’s community involvement. In 2015, the company contributed more than $65 million to support 1,850 community organizations across Canada. This includes employeeled fundraising in initiatives such as CIBC Miracle Day, United Way/ Centraide and the CIBC Run for the Cure where 15,000 CIBC employees and their families contributed over $3 million to the 2015 Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Way to go guys! Rajesh also likes to make sure that the local kindergarten classes have a chance to explore the branch, including a look in the vault and the ATM room. Formerly a civil engineer, Rajesh arrived in Canada in 2003 from New Delhi, India with his wife and daughter. They have since added twin boys to the family. Needless to say, any of Rajesh’s free time is heavily invested in his three children. He loves to watch them play and grow. Looking back, Rajesh sees how hard it was raising the family when they had no other family members here in Vancouver to help them. Rajesh loves Vancouver. “We are so close to everything here: the mountains, the ocean, beaches, lakes – everything is just 30 minutes away. Don’t take these things for granted – this is a kind of heaven.”
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The Year of the Monkey - February 20th
Thank you to the Hon Hsing Athletic Club for bringing their two colourful Lions to tour the Collingwood businesses along Kingsway and Joyce Street to bless them for a prosperous new year. l
Be a Part of Collingwood Days 2016
Events will be occuring in the Collingwood area between May 21 to May 29th. Collingwood Days festival is Saturday May 28th on the Carleton Elementary school grounds. Call out to International Marketplace vendors, Food Court vendors, Farmer’s Market vendors, performers, martial arts and dance studios. Contact Angela Evans at angela@ shopcollingwood.ca for more information or to see how you can participate. Go to www.collingwooddays.com for sponsorship opportunities, volunteering, food vendor and International Marketplace. l
We are always looking for new board of directors and/or committee members. All meetings are held at 11:30 a.m. second Tuesday of the month. Help us make Collingwood the best in business. l
Congratulations to the Jr. BIA’s 2nd Annual Vancity Case Study
The Collingwood Jr. BIA organized their second case study held February 9th at Windermere Secondary School. Thirty students participated in the case study on a professional day and spent all day 8 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Working on ideas to help Vancity connect with youth in the community and to educate youth on the Co-Op business model. A huge thank you to board member Angela Lam, Branch Manager of the Collingwood location, other Vancity judges and Ms. Tam, Mr. Kam and Mr. Robson, Starbucks Boundary Plaza and Collingwood Safeway for your donations. For more information on the Jr. BIA go to www.jrbiacollingwood.com
Become more involved and Join the Board of Directors
If your business is located within the Collingwood BIA’s boundaries you are a member of the BIA. The area is Kingsway between Boundary Road and Rupert Street.
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