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WORLD PEACE: Jennifer Packet was topped this 12 months’s Miss Chinese language Vancouver 2019. The 22-year-old UBC graduate lately bested 9 different gifted contestants to earn the title, punching her ticket to the Miss Chinese language Worldwide Pageant to compete in opposition to delegates from all around the world. A pageant with a goal, B.C. Most cancers was this 12 months’s beneficiary of the wonder contest which celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary.
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Previous to the pageant’s reside broadcast, gala chairs Glynnis Chan, Might Ho and Shella Keung steered the gala dinner serving to increase $460,000 for B.C. Most cancers and the acquisition of main state-of-the-art radiation gear. With some 700 viewers members within the room, the group was moved when B.C. Most cancers affected person and Vancouver resident Carmen Hou took the stage to share her private most cancers journey. Going through most cancers whereas nursing a new child, the then 32-year-old was identified with stage IV breast most cancers.
Hou started chemotherapy therapy and went on to have a mastectomy of her left breast. Surgeons additionally eliminated 20 lymph nodes from her underneath arm, ten of which had been cancerous. She has adopted up with two varieties of radiation and commenced a drug trial this winter. Whereas the most cancers isn’t rising, she’s additionally not in remission.
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“With out the therapy and care I’ve acquired at B.C. Most cancers, which donors make potential, I might not be standing right here earlier than you,” stated Hou, now 35.
“I’ve been gifted extra time with my household due to the life-saving therapies I’ve acquired at B.C. Most cancers, together with precision radiation.”
Hou’s shifting story compelled the well-heeled crowd in attendance to assist the trigger. A particular Dom Pérignon dinner that includes classic bottles from the enduring champagne home coupled with a dinner curated by Vancouver firefighter and celeb chef Michael Varga offered for $25,000, sparkplugging the five-lot reside public sale. The continuing name for money noticed Lions Golf equipment Worldwide cleared the path with a beneficiant $100,000 match donation.
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“We’re grateful to everybody who generously donated to assist convey progressive radiation gear to B.C. Most cancers, giving better hope to the greater than 80,000 British Columbians going through most cancers,” stated Sarah Roth, president and CEO, B.C. Most cancers Basis.
“This state-of-the-art gear can have a considerably optimistic impact for sufferers, notably helpful for pediatric and breast most cancers sufferers, lowering therapy setup time, decreasing danger of lacking the goal and radiation of wholesome tissue.”
Xmas duel
PITCH PERFECT: Described as B.C.’s largest carolling competitors, 15 groups of aggressive carollers battled it out for singing supremacy at Xmas Duel.
Impressed by Seattle’s Figgy Pudding singing contest, the fifth staging noticed the family-friendly outside occasion transfer from its unique Gastown digs to the roomier Vancouver Artwork Gallery Plaza. Offered by the Bloom Group and the Downtown Vancouver Enterprise Enchancment Affiliation, lots of of choral lovers packed the general public sq. to cheer on their favorite group on the annual sing-off, whereas supporting Might’s Place.
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Choirs fundraised to punch their ticket to the perfect in present, whereas attendees bought a poll for $5 to vote for his or her favorite carollers. Earlier than the winners had been introduced, a reported $60,000 was collected for Western Canada’s first free standing hospice. The six-bed hospice offering compassionate finish of life take care of folks dwelling with psychological well being points and addictions is situated on Powell Road in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Along with the folks’s alternative, a panel of judges together with Elektra Ladies’s Refrain creative Director Morna Edmundson, Miss 604 social media maven Rebecca Bollwitt and former Vancouver metropolis councillor Heather Deal chosen winners of probably the most inventive and greatest vocal carolling group. St. George’s Junior Faculty Choir gained the Folks’s Alternative Award. The group additionally took dwelling Finest Youth Choir honours. The Sizzling Toddies picked up Finest Vocal Efficiency whereas Notre Dame Platinum Ladies efficiency was declared the Most Inventive.
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“Due to all our sponsors and particularly the choirs and their supporters for testing their vocal skills in assist of Might’s Place Hospice,” stated Lesley Anderson, Xmas Duel Venture Supervisor. “Xmas Duel is an excellent occasion welcoming folks of all skills to return out to sing, hear and benefit from the neighborhood celebration of music.”
Making spirits vivid, from UBC, again row: Mika Han, Magdalen Hamilton and Davis Tune; entrance row: Stephen Juwono, Jessie Lam and Charlotte Choi had been amongst 15 carolling teams that participated within the vacation sing-off on the Vancouver Artwork Gallery Plaza. Picture: Fred Lee.
Lattimer Gallery Bentwood Field Public sale & Reception
BOXING SALE: Peter Lattimer, proprietor of the Lattimer Gallery, hosted his annual Charity Bentwood Field Public sale & Reception on the Museum of Vancouver. 13 award-winning and up-and-coming Indigenous artists participated within the charity occasion remodeling clean cedar bentwood bins into lovely artworks.
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For the previous dozen years Lattimer has organized the Bentwood Field sale to assist assist the City Native Youth Affiliation, a Vancouver group offering prevention targeted packages and companies to Native youth since 1988.
Corrine Hunt, designer of the Vancouver Olympic medals in 2010, celebrated mural artist KC Corridor, and Michelle Stoney, recipient of the 2019 B.C. Achievement Award in First Nations Artwork, had been amongst this 12 months’s gifted artists who donated their time and expertise creating the coveted bins for public sale. Stoney’s Octopus and Raven creation garnered the night’s prime bid, contributing to a reported $83,000 haul for UNYA. For the reason that occasion’s creation, greater than $550,000 has been raised.
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