{"id":37088,"date":"2021-06-25T01:51:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T08:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=37088"},"modified":"2021-06-25T00:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T07:05:05","slug":"jas-newest-laureates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2021\/06\/25\/jas-newest-laureates\/","title":{"rendered":"JA\u2019s newest laureates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moderator Greg D\u2019Avignon, left, and newly inducted laureate Gordon Diamond share a laugh at the Business Laureates of British Columbia Hall of Fame celebration May 20.\u00a0<\/strong>(screenshot)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On May 20, Gordon Diamond \u2013 chair of West Coast Reduction Ltd. and Austeville Properties Ltd. \u2013 was among those inducted into the Business Laureates of British Columbia Hall of Fame. The ceremony, which was to have been held last year, took place virtually.<\/p>\n

The Hall of Fame was created in 2005 by Junior Achievement British Columbia (JABC) to honour local \u201cbusiness leaders whose efforts have shaped our province and country.\u201d It is housed in Vancouver Convention Centre West.<\/p>\n

The evening\u2019s other Hall of Fame inductees were Chief Clarence Joseph Louie, chief executive officer of Osoyoos Indian Band Development Corp., and Arran and Ratana Stephens, co-founders and co-CEOs of Nature\u2019s Path Foods Inc.<\/p>\n

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Morris Wosk, z\u201dl, was honoured as a Pioneer Laureate.\u00a0(photo from orderofbc.gov.bc.ca<\/a>)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also part of the festivities, in a belated celebration of the hall\u2019s 15th anniversary, was the posthumous induction of 10 Pioneer Laureates. Morris Wosk, z\u201dl, who was president of Liberty Investments Ltd. and M.J. Investment Co., as well as co-founder of Wosk\u2019s Ltd., was so honoured for both his business and philanthropic endeavours. Wosk, who passed away in 2002, \u201cplayed a significant role in the growth and development of Vancouver\u201d and was a \u201crevered mentor to the next generation of businesspeople.\u201d<\/p>\n

The gala included speeches by supporters and representatives of JABC and presentations by some young achievers. There were brief video biographies for each laureate being inducted, and the Hall of Famers spoke with moderator Greg D\u2019Avignon, president and CEO of the Business Council of British Columbia. In that conversation, Diamond pointed to the importance in leadership of building \u201crelationships, trust,\u201d and of being \u201chonourable with the people who work with you, not for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the most satisfying aspects of his business at this point, he said, is the people who are running it. \u201cWe have family members, we have a team\u2026. I\u2019ll be listening to various meetings and I\u2019m in the background but, if I wasn\u2019t there, what the family and the team has built is that my company will continue without me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said of this legacy, which includes the Diamond Foundation, in addition to the businesses, \u201cYou can\u2019t buy that feeling that I have when I look at my plants, when I look at the buildings, and that we\u2019re capable of doing things like this,\u201d he said, referring to supporting JABC and \u201cgiving back\u201d to community in general.<\/p>\n

The JABC write-up highlights the foundation, which Diamond \u201cset up with his late father, Jack Diamond, in 1984 as a vehicle for his philanthropic aspirations. Since inception, the Diamond Foundation, funded solely by Gordon and his companies, has made donations to hospitals, schools, the arts and other public and charitable causes.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more on JABC\u2019s laureates, visit businesslaureatesbc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moderator Greg D\u2019Avignon, left, and newly inducted laureate Gordon Diamond share a laugh at the Business Laureates of British Columbia Hall of Fame celebration May 20.\u00a0(screenshot) On May 20, Gordon Diamond \u2013 chair of West Coast Reduction Ltd. and Austeville Properties Ltd. \u2013 was among those inducted into the Business Laureates of British Columbia Hall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7883,3851,7030,20662,20503,20663,2763,20664],"class_list":["post-37088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-awards","tag-business","tag-gordon-diamond","tag-jabc","tag-milestone","tag-morris-wosk","tag-philanthropy","tag-pioneers"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}