People in North York

Print

Text

North York's Louise Russo was one of 13 Ontario residents to be awarded for providing victim services to victims.

Attorney General Chris Bentley presented her with the Victim Services Awards of Distinction at Queen's Park on Thursday.

The provincial award recognizes volunteers and professionals who provide high quality and innovative services to victims, and recognize victims who have demonstrated tremendous courage and dedication to raise the profile of victims's issues.

For the second year in a row, North York's Stella Leowinata will share the role of Marie in The National Ballet of Canada's The Nutcracker. The production starts Saturday and runs until Dec. 28 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.

The Dec. 13 afternoon performance, featuring Stella, will be shown in select Cineplex Entertainment theatres at 2 p.m. The Nutcracker can be watched on the big screen in North York at the Sheppard Grande, 4861 Yonge St., north of Sheppard Avenue.

Tickets can be purchased at participating theatre box offices or online at www.cineplex.com.

Local residents Erick Bauer and Steve Cameron raised $5,000 with a comedy show for The Friends For Life Foundation, which helps cystic fibrosis and cancer.

Comedy For A Cause saw 300 pack downtown's Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club last Wednesday. The event was put on in conjunction with the corporate communications and public relations program at Centennial College.

The Friends For Life Foundation was founded in 2005 by a group of teenage friends who had been personally affected by two devastating diseases. The two 23-year-old co-founders are Bauer, who battles cystic fibrosis and Cameron, who is a cancer survivor.

Now in its third year, the charity organization has raised more than $85,000 in gross revenue for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the oncology unit at the Hospital for Sick Children.

The goal of The Friends For Life Foundation is to unite people in the fight against cystic fibrosis and cancer through strength of friendship, the power of knowledge, and the importance of attitude.

Teams of MBA students from across Canada, including a team from York University, went head to head in a bid to win the national Schulich/Tata Cup Sustainability Case Competition, late last month.

This year, the case centred on Maple Leaf Foods, which made headlines this year when an outbreak of listeriosis was traced back to its North York processing facilities.

Teams presented their case analyses of real-life business cases to a panel of judges.

Teams were from seven business schools: Schulich School of Business at York, Richard Ivey School of Business at Western, Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson, Telfer School of Management at Ottawa, and the School of Business at Queens), Alberta (University of Alberta School of Business) and British Columbia (Simon Fraser University Faculty of Business Administration).

After close deliberation, Richard Ivey School of Business at Western placed third, School of Business at Queens was awarded second, and first place went to Telfer School of Management at Ottawa.