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UWindsor alumni ‘rising stars’
VOL.84 • ISSUE15
DECEMBER 14 2011
Chamber of Commerce nominate three alumni for new award stephen hargreaves NEWS EDITOR ______________________________
graduates leaving our city. Hopefully by recognising these people we can reduce our brain-drain.”
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hree University of Windsor alumni are being recognized for their professional and personal achievements as finalists in the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce’s new Rising Star award.
All of the nominees for the Rising Star award demonstrate what Pilon called, “a proven commitment to our community through outstanding scholarship and achievements and exemplary leadership and community involvement.”
The final nominee, Denny Timm, 24, is a project officer at Workforce Windsor-Essex and a 2010 graduate of the university’s political science and labour studies program. He also holds a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Western Ontario.
During a press conference Tuesday, the Chamber of Commerce announced the finalists for its Business Excellence Awards, to be held on April 25, 2012.
Nominees for the new award include Fabio Costante. Currently working toward an LLB at the university, Costante received an MBA in 2008 and a degree in business administration and economics in 2007 from the University of Windsor. Costante has worked with Workforce Windsor-Essex, as the advisor to the president of the campus club Students in Free Enterprise Windsor, which he founded in 2006. He is also the author of Principles of Entrepreneurship: Building a Resilient WindsorEssex Economy One Entrepreneur at a Time.
“It’s always exciting to be recognised for your achievements,” said Timm upon the announcement of him nomination. “If I am selected [for the award], it validates all of the great things I’ve been doing in the community and personally, but just being nominated is a tremendous honour.”
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Since 1991, the Chamber of Commerce has recognized local businesses and business people through the annual Business Excellence Awards. In a change for the 2012 awards, four categories were added, including Start Up of the Year, replacing the New Business award, the Taste of Windsor Essex award, the Go Green award and the Rising Star of the Year award, to be given to an individual under 30. “The Rising Star award recognizes a standout young player who is on the rise,” said vice-chair of the Business Excellence Awards, Yvonne Pilon. “The retention of talent is a big issue in Windsor-Essex. We are seeing a lot of our
Nominated alongside of Costante is Gary Kalaci, 28, president and CEO of Alexa Translations, which provides interpretation services in more than 100 languages and dialects. Kalaci obtained a combined LLB and MBA degree in 2009 and a BSc degree in chemistry and biochemistry in 2005, both from
UWindsor.
A former member of the board of directors at Transit Windsor, Timm is currently a board member of the Windsor Public Library and was the inaugural chair of the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Committee for the City of Windsor. “Being from the millennial bracket, I saw many rising stars in our community that I thought needed to be recognised,” said Pilon. “The region is changing, and without the young talent staying in the community Windsor-Essex will not have the full opportunity to prosper. It’s the rising stars that can change the region for the better.”
Remembering violence against women UWindsor recognizes National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
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“We contacted different agencies around the city as well as on campus about violence against women and how they can get help, where they can go for help, how to recognize an abused woman and what you could do as a neighbour to help them.”
The University of Windsor Womyn’s Centre in partnership with the Engineering Student Society planned the day of events and a ceremony in remembrance of the 14 murdered female students.
At 4:30 p.m., a procession left the student centre and walked to the Memorial of Hope between Essex and Dillon Halls in tribute to female victims of violence. The roughly 70 people in attendance, with candles and roses, formed a hemisphere near the monument.
“We have been organizing this along with the engineering students. We have been arranging for the show today in the CAW, the displays that are going up,” said Womyn’s Centre co-ordinator
The tribute was preceded by a short speech and song by Theresa Sims of Native Women of Windsor.
rganizations dedicated to ending violence against women marked the 22 year anniversary of the massacre at Montreal’s École Polytechnique with a ceremony at the CAW Student Centre last Tuesday.
“Let us send our greetings, thanksgiving and love to all that are here in this circle, that our hearts and minds are together as one. A good heart, a good mind, an open heart, an open mind that work together as one heart, one mind. And then we’d like to open the circle to those who are not here, those we have lost, those who are incarcerated, those who are in the hospital that they may join us in the future in this circle,” said Sims during the ceremony. A group of students read from victim’s biographies in English and French, and a rose was left by one of the 14 pillars after each reading. The group then walked to Vanier Hall where they listened to a program of speakers including women’s studies professor Renée Bondy, followed by a screening of the 2009 film Polytechnique.
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